[GTranslate]ROME – With a very large majority (262 votes in favour, 40 against – Fratelli d’Italia and the dissidents of the M5S – and 2 abstentions), the Senate approved the trust in the Prime Minister

Mario Draghi, after a very long day that began this morning with the speech of the premier.

A very articulated speech (which you can read in original here: Il discorso di Mario Draghi), which touched on all the “hot” topics, starting with the health emergency.

“It is our duty to fight the pandemic by all means and safeguard the lives of citizens: a trench where we all fight together, the virus is everyone’s enemy”, said Draghi who naturally then spoke about the economy, work, school, environment, infrastructures, Recovery Fund and foreign policy.

Speaking of the latter, Draghi declared that “this government will be convinced pro-European and Atlanticist, in line with Italy’s historical anchors: EU, Atlantic Alliance, United Nations”. Draghi, therefore, aims to strengthen relations with France and Germany and with the “new US Administration”. Furthermore, “Italy will work to fuel dialogue mechanisms with the Russian Federation”, while declaring that it is following “with concern what is happening” in Russia and “in other countries where citizens’ rights are often violated”, “too. rising tensions in Asia around China “.

The premier then spoke of the flight of many young “minds” abroad. “I have often wondered – he said – if we, and I am referring first of all to my generation, have done and are doing for them everything that our grandparents and fathers did for us, sacrificing themselves beyond measure. It is a question that we must ask ourselves when we do not do everything necessary to better promote human capital, education, school, university and culture. A question to which we must give concrete and urgent answers when we disappoint our young people by forcing them to emigrate from a country that too often does not know how to evaluate the merit and has not yet achieved effective gender equality “. Adding: “This is our mission as Italians: to deliver a better and fairer country to our children and grandchildren”.