The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.