"To me, who have lived at a time of serious limitations to freedom, the targets that have been achieved" over the last fifty years "look like a miracle. However we must go on, because Europe can and must improve dialogue, unity and cooperation among peoples". It is "a positive balance, but one which demands us not to stop", the one that Maria Romana De Gasperi outlines in an interview with SIR, just before the 50th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome. What did the "founding fathers (De Gasperi, Schuman and Adenauer)" have in common? As well as the plan to "bring the peoples of the continent back together", goes on Alcide De Gasperi’s daughter, "they shared Christian values, deeply experienced since youth" and "the fact they were all border men". The statesman’s daughter, who will attend the ceremony in celebration of her father, due on 24th March, during the Comece congress in Rome (23-25 March, Hotel Ergife) at his grave in the basilica of San Lorenzo al Verano, particularly highlights his "high concept of politics" that "he tried to put into the European project as well" and recalls his belief in the importance of "educating the young to a European future".
