It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.