The Movimento Federalista Europeo awards the honorary membership card to President Mario Draghi

On 11 November, the Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE - UEF Italy) awarded President Mario Draghi an honorary membership card at a conference in memory of Prof. Raimondo Cagiano de Azevedo, entitled 'Federalism for peace, democracy and equality', held in Rome at the Primoli Foundation.
The conference, organised by the Primoli Foundation together with the European Federalist Movement, was also an opportunity for President Draghi to remember a friend from their days together at the Massimiliano Massimo Institute and to receive from the MFE - of which Prof. Raimondo Cagiano had been an active member and influential leader since the 1960s - in recognition of his decisive contribution at particularly significant moments in national and European political life.

The Movimento Federalista Europeo (MFE), in thanking President Draghi for accepting the honorary membership card of the MFE, recalls here the reasons that accompanied the award:

For having determined, with courage and utmost responsibility, the rescue of the euro in the management of the most dramatic crisis of our single currency, preventing its degeneration and thus saving the European Union from the real risk of disintegration;

For accepting the responsibility of taking charge of Italy's fate at a difficult and dramatic moment, succeeding in affirming the centrality of our country's European destiny and placing it with determination at the forefront, in Europe and in relations with the American administration, of the choice of sides at the time of Russia's aggression against Ukraine;

For the inestimable value of the EU Competitiveness Report he edited, which has become the benchmark for reflection on the future of our continent; a report that captures the ills brought to the European Union by its political fragmentation and that concretely calls for the urgent need to overcome the current European structure in order to make Europe capable of facing the challenges of our time, halting the decline to which division condemns it;

For the lucid determination with which he reminds governments that Europe must urgently act as a state and that, to this end, it must 'become a state'; and with which he urges them towards federalism, highlighting the concrete steps they could (and should) take if only they could muster the necessary political will, thus proving themselves equal to the responsibilities that the times demand of them towards their citizens;

For his ability to always place at the centre of his interventions, at a time when the founding values of our civilisation are being challenged and risk being erased, the call for Europeans to equip themselves with the appropriate tools to safeguard the freedom, democratic life and social cohesion of our continent,

the Movimento Federalista Europeo, with gratitude,
awards President Mario Draghi honorary membership.

Pavia, 13 November 2025