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September 24, 2021 "After the pandemic and the economic crisis that followed, today we are called to rebuild cohesive and supportive societies, capable of overcoming the social, economic and environmental imbalances that are compromising the very life of this planet of ours". states the Head of State, Sergio Mattarella on the occasion of the meeting with a delegation of the Council of Italian and European Bishops' Conferences

"John Paul II, on the occasion of his visit to the European Parliament, in November 1988, hoped that united Europe would undertake to reconcile man with nature, to reconcile man with all his fellow men, to reconcile the man with himself. A mission that never fails: that of uniting peoples and their destinies, for the common good of humanity ". So the head of state.

"I am particularly pleased to welcome you to the Quirinal Palace on the occasion of the annual Assembly of the Council of European Bishops 'Conferences on the 50th anniversary of its foundation. Fifty years in which the Council of European Bishops' Conferences has made a valuable contribution to the civil growth of the our continent, confirming the role of the Churches in accompanying and supporting the construction of a Europe, rich in the variety of options of its peoples and, at the same time, cohesive in the ability to combine its various manifestations in unity, around the values founding ". So the president Mattarella.

"The theme chosen for your meeting" 50 years at the service of Europe, memory and perspectives on the horizon of all Brothers "is a very useful opportunity to reflect also on the current condition of the whole of Europe and the integration project and on its reasons. There

is often the temptation to consider the conquest of peace, the affirmation of the rights of freedom - including the religious one - living in open and tolerant societies as predictable and irreversible acquisitions. even today, many countries are traversed by particularly insidious impulses, especially in an era in which, in the world, the temptation to enslave religious expressions because of conflict is re-emerging, as a pretext to justify discrimination of various kinds ".