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

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.

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.

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.

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

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.