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17 February 202014.55 The honors of the Order of Merit have been delivered to the Quirinale, which the head of state confers on citizens who are the protagonists of acts of civil commitment. "A society of free and equal but not solidarity would risk being sterile," Mattarella said in the ceremony. "Freedom and equality express values, fundamental and indispensable principles" but without "the sense of coexistence they would risk being unfinished". Then: "It is necessary to make known what is good: we are serving the truth and the Republic".