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October 24, 201921.34 Science and research "are bearers of democracy", says President Mattarella, from Bergamo, addressing young people and inviting them to "never lose the search for the common good". Science "crumbles the walls" and recalls "the principle of solidarity present in the Constitution and in the EU treaties". It underlines the risk that "liberal democracies appear fragile in the face of the pervasiveness of technological domains". Young people, says Mattarella, "perceive epochal transformation more than others", and cites Greta's activism.