“On February 24, 2022 as parliamentarians we felt very inadequate”. Thus began his intervention at Wakeup 6, a cycle of training meetings promoted by the youth policies of Lavis, Emanuela Rossini, a former deputy and vice -president of the European Affairs Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. “I therefore wanted to deepen personally at the end of the mandate what is happening in the world of defense”. Rossini has followed a second level master dedicated to the top of the armed forces and a few “civil”, operating mainly in the context of international relations. “There have been many comparisons – continues Rossini – especially in the context of monitoring and cybersicacy for stations and hospitals”.

Vincent of the Sala, who teaches international political to sociology in Trento, brings the discussion to a realpolitik plan. “We have two great powers such as US and Russia that have as its objective isolated and weakening Europe. The free world – he adds – will become smaller and smaller”. In this phase, the boundaries and professor of Canadian origin are also seriously questioned is convinced that “nobody in the European Union would help Canada if the United States questioned its borders or Denmark if the States were to do the same with Greenland”. Of the sociology room deals with research on relations with Central Asia, the so-called 8 countries “-Stitan”.

“Those who control Eastern Europe commands Heartland: those who control the Heartland commands the island-Mondo: whoever controls the island-world commands the world”. With this Heartland theory, developed by Halford Mackinder in 1904, of the room wanted to remember the fundamental importance of central Asia. Where the economic, political presence, China’s strategy is remarkable. Russia is in that area of ​​the world and “the European Union is less present than 10 years ago”. Italy has a presence rooted in the -stan, as shown by the recent visit of Giorgia Meloni in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, “for the purpose of bypassing the penalties to Russia giving the possibility of triangulations for agri -food exports”.

Massimiliano Pilati, former president of the Trentino forum for peace and militant of the nonviolent movement, recalls how in 2014 with the Balcani Caucasus Observatory Transeuropa the Trentino forum for peace had organized a conference entitled “The future of Europe passes from Ukraine”. “In Europe I have not seen – Pilati underlines – try to find remedy by the various leaders”. Commenting on the Carlo Magno prize delivered to Aquisgrana in Ursula von der Leyen for his commitment for peace, unity and cooperation in the European Union Pilati wanted to read the words of Pope Francis, winner of the same prize in 2016, considering them closer to his feeling.

“What happened to you – said the Pontiff-, humanistic Europe, champion of human rights, democracy and freedom? What happened to you, Europe, the land of poets, philosophers, artists, musicians, writers? What happened to you, Europe mother of peoples and nations, mother of great men and women who have been able to defend and give life for the dignity of their brothers?”

According to Rossini to Europe, it happened that the “clash” between the Union and States has created Euroscepticism, with “Astoric positions that do not look at reality. We cannot change European treaties because we should convince some countries to remove the unanimous clause”. Europe is already divided on defense, because the eastern part of the Union is already much more worried. “The wars – says Rossini – are already making the institutions collapse, the states are out of technological innovation and the armies are composed of legionaries controlled by those who have financial power”. In the hall of Palazzo De Maffei there is a moment of frost when Rossini recalls how among the British military forces we are preparing for a military attack on Europe between the end of 2026 and the beginning of 2027 Della room puts the emphasis on the profound current crisis of democracy, because “two democratic states have never made war between them, because democracy means dialogue”. Many European countries have a not exactly honorable past of imperialist powers, “today are imperialists Russia, China and the United States. In the USA – he underlines the room – it is no longer believed in a world in which we put around a table. We risk losing companies guided by law of law, tied by rules and institutions”.