ROMA (ITALPRESS) – In Rome the last greeting to Emma Bonino. The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, are also present in the Sala della Protomoteca in Campidoglio to attend State funerals in secular form.
LA STORICA ASSISTENTE TAIBI “SUE LOTTE HANNO CAMBIATO ITALIA E MONDO”
“It was so many, many things, it was tenacious and stubborn, with that tire of which she herself spoke, precise, demanding and intransigent, she studied every question and never surrendered. He was strict with everyone because he was especially with himself. His struggles have changed the country and the world, for the freedom of women, human rights, hunger in the world, forced marriages, migrants, the rule of law democracy. For the freedom of people to choose responsibly until the end.” So Carla Taibi, Emma Bonino’s historic assistant, intervening at the state funeral in the secular form of the historic radical leader. “His greatest battle was for the United States of Europe – he recalls. The best way to remember it is to keep all its battles together, defending how much it got and continuing with the unfinished ones. Emma won because today no one can say that she has not changed Italy and the world. Today he would be here to tell us to stop remembering and start giving us something to do because there is still too much to do. I want to promise you that we will continue to do what you taught us to do, to mobilize.”.
MAGI “PER LEI STATI UNITI EUROPA DESTINO COMUNE, OBIETTIVO PIÙ URGENTE”
“Emma thought that the United States of Europe was our common destiny to build, the priority and most urgent political goal. Peace is built with law and democracy and democracy stops being such if it is not on the side of the victims and the aggressors.” This is said by the secretary of +Europa, Riccardo Magi, intervening at the funeral of state in the secular form of Emma Bonino. “I was one of the less rhetorical and more direct people I knew. She did not love long ceremonies, but she would be enlightened to see so many young people and women and she would like the choice of this place for the symbolic value that has the Capitol where the Treaties were signed. Today one of its most important achievements is the International Criminal Court which is undergoing many attacks, one of the tasks of all of us is to defend it,” he adds.
PRODI “BATTAGLIA PER DIFENDERE PIÙ DEBOLI SUA STELLA POLARE”
“ Emma’s tenacity in the defense of rights has never failed; we have not always shared everything, but her battle for the defense of the weakest was her polar star.” Romano Prodi says so, speaking at funerals. “Another firm point for Emma was the inseparable link between Italian and European destiny, a rational, concrete and constructive Europeanism, aware of the obstacles that European nationalisms bring.” I was not surprised by its growing concern for the progress of the European project because I was continually delayed, if not even braked. Emma and I became friends after the common political experience, usually politics divides friends but her loyalty and sometimes brutal frankness created a progressed relationship, indeed, intensified after the common work. With Emma’s disappearance, the country has lost an extraordinary, intelligent and determined woman”
LETTA “RISPETTAVA ISTITUZIONI MA SAPEVA ROMPERE LORO INERZIA”
“Thank you Emma for never saving you in fighting, for never hesitated to defend the attack, Ukraine, in front of the aggressor, Russia. Thanks Emma for not being limited to doing so on the first day of the Russian invasion, but also after when the first feelings of tiredness began and continue. Thank you for teaching us that you do not stop in front of obstacles, thank you for being there and for being there again.” So Enrico Letta. “Emma knew how to respect the institutions and at the same time knew how to break the inertia and conservative spirit of the institutions. He had a unique ability to be a woman of institutions without getting trapped by them. She could change them, making things possible, even more unthinkable and unpredictable, would happen. He knew that only institutions make permanent and universal those insights that succeed, otherwise be beautiful but unproductive battles if reduced to a dimension of only testimony,” he added. “Emma did not want to be a beautiful soul, he wanted to be a soul that caused change, he wanted to join the ideal battle the concreteness of realization within and through institutions. For her it also counted the method and her method was to play in the team, she had a great ability to work and do it with others, it was a gift to have her next and an opportunity for the government”.
DELLA VEDOVA “SEMPRE FATTO POLITICA IN MODO NON CONFORMISTA”
“Emma has always made politics in a non-conformist way, he began with his arrest for abortion, he stumbled on TV with Marco Pannella, he practiced the hunger strike, collected millions of referendatory signatures, from the European Commissioner jumped from helicopters. He was not afraid of political confrontation or to challenge impopularity to remain consistent with his ideas.” Thus Benedict Della Vedova of +Europe, speaking at funerals. “All this has never been in contradiction with a high sense of the institutions: parliamentary, European Commissioner, first woman to cover that charge, and as a minister has acted in her own way but always with discipline and honor,” he adds.
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