Giuseppe Conte's lectio magistralis at the University of Florence: "Dedicated to all students"

2021-02-26T15:56:54.122Z

"This day marks my return to the Florentine academic community in which I spent many years. Experience that has enriched me enormously, also from a human point of view. I accepted with joy and emotion the invitation to give this lesson. It is a lesson. which I dedicate to all students with the hope that you can refine your ideas and life plans ". So the former premier Giuseppe Conte in his lecture at the University of Florence. The lesson is entitled 'Health protection and economy: lessons from the pandemic' live streaming from the University of Florence. The area around the rectorate is armored. A dozen police vans patrolling Piazza San Marco in view of the demonstration announced by the student collectives. Barriers stretched for about thirty meters to prevent access to the entrance to the rectorate. Health protection has made it possible to better defend companies "Already from the first empirical assessments it is clear that the priority protection of health has also made it possible to better defend the productive fabric of the country and that the most resilient economies are proving to be the ones in which adequate containment measures of the contagion accompanied by interventions to support families and businesses "said Conte. Regulatory strategy based on 3 pillars used "The regulatory strategy" for Covid, "was built on three pillars: ordinances of the Minister of Health, declaration of a state of national emergency, the adoption of decree laws and Dpcm. It would not have been possible to leave the entire regulation to the decree laws only for the unpredictability of the pandemic and the timing of the conversion of the decree into law. There was the need for an agile tool to intervene promptly "explained the former premier. Never used state substitute power, but dialogue "The Regions and the Autonomous Provinces are responsible for organizing health services", but "the substitute power of the Government is a power which is then declined in a special law, Article 8 of Law 131 of 2003 in the event of serious danger to public safety and security: well, we have never considered the possibility of exercising the substitute power of the State "continued Conte. "Even for a purely political orientation - he explained - we preferred to cultivate a constant dialogue with the territorial authorities, despite various difficulties and critical moments, in the belief that the involvement of the various institutional actors in a perspective of loyal collaboration would have guaranteed us greater national cohesion, and a more solid stability of the communities of reference, in a completely new context ". Politics is responsible for the assumption of responsibility "Only politics is responsible for the final assumption of responsibility, because it is politics that has the work of an overall evaluation of the interests at stake, overcoming conflicts in the sign of a balance that reconciles maximum protection of the health of citizens with the least sacrifice of other constitutionally protected rights "he underlined. At the beginning of the pandemic, the primacy of the economy was sustained Against the background "of positions that supported" the incompatibility of restrictive measures with the framework of our constitutional values ​​", at the beginning of the pandemic in Italy," anarchist conceptions of freedom, or even concepts that in fact end up attributing, recognizing the primacy of the economic ratio with respect to safeguarding the values ​​of the person ", the former premier recalled." The initial moments in particular were very complicated. Italy, the first in the Western world, was called to make resolute and completely new choices, considering their compatibility on a constitutional level, effectiveness on a health level, efficiency on an economic level, sustainability on a social level, and also the repercussions on the psychological level ". A state turned in on itself and isolated does not win the challenges" We must now be aware that a national state, when turned in on itself, cannot be able to respond to the most complex challenges: experiences loneliness, isolation, can be very heavy for individuals, but they become serious misfortunes for nation states "added Conte." Which Europe - he added - do we want? What Europe do we need? How do we perceive ourselves, how do we represent ourselves on the European continent? Here, these are questions that challenge our intelligence, our conscience: they require an intergenerational pact, they deserve the utmost consideration, the most sincere authenticity of response, in a globalized world in which the economy seems to have taken precedence over politics and to law, where we have repeatedly observed that the weight of an economic choice taken at many longitudes can have stringent repercussions also on our national community ". Politics has a critical Europeanism, it is not a fashion" Politics must pursue a critical Europeanism, non-fideistic: an approach of authentic conversion that consciously recovers and relaunches, updating them, the founding reasons of the European dream "said the former premier." There is euphoria - he observed - for the professions of the pro-European faith that have multiplied even in Italy in recent weeks, especially as some of these have arrived unexpectedly. "However, he continued , "Europeanism is not a fashion", and "the best way to counter identity retreats is to work with farsighted concreteness to strengthen the credibility, the reliability of the common European home: otherwise, when the wind will change and the twenty nationalists, it will be very difficult to be able to counter them with the strength of solid and effective solutions ". Rector of Florence, grateful to Conte for the service rendered to the country "We are pleased to welcome the return to the University of Professor Giuseppe Conte, after a complex and difficult experience serving the country, for which I would like to express a sincere feeling of appreciation and gratitude "said the rector Luigi Dei, introducing the lesson of the former president of the Council for students of the School of Law. "I greet him - added Dei - and I welcome him, welcome back, on behalf of the entire academic community and my staff. Next Monday the lessons of the teaching courses of the School of Law will begin: we can therefore consider today's lesson a sort preview of the resumption of teaching activities. We do it remotely, for the reasons you know well, with the hope that as soon as possible we can return to the university we love, the one in the classrooms, socializing and saturated with strong human interactions ". Conte returns to professor in Florence: he will hold lectures, seminars and conferences Lectures, conferences and seminars in the context of the already scheduled courses of the law degree courses, as well as the courses of the PhD in Legal Sciences and the School of specialization for the legal professions . These are the didactic commitments, for the second semester of this academic year, for Giuseppe Conte at the University of Florence, where he returns having ended the compulsory leave linked to his position as premier. The commitments were defined during the meeting that Conte had this afternoon in Florence with the president of the president of the School of Law, Paola Lucarelli, and with the director of the Department of Legal Sciences, Andrea Simoncini.