Overview
- In a videomessage to the Forum The European House in Cernobbio, the Italian president said the world needs Europe.
- He urged rebuilding the centrality of international law and reviving a cooperative multilateral order.
- He warned that multinational corporations hold excessive sway, likening them to new East India Companies, and called for rules oriented to the common good.
- He cautioned that the convergence of corporate ambitions with neo‑imperialist impulses from some governments could be lethal for humanity's future.
- He portrayed the EU as a promoter of peace that has never initiated a conflict or trade war and pressed for stronger institutions and political will among member states.