Put ideals before ephemeral consensus (2)

(ANSA) - Asiago, May 24 - President Sergio Mattarella said Tuesday that the government, leadership class and social forces "must put ideals and vision before the ephemeral search for consensus at all costs, sometimes obtained with gross simplifications and demagoguery." He said the "moment for Europe and the whole world is not easy. There is a concrete risk that divisive forces, terrorist threats, economic crises, and migratory flows lead to dangerous leaps backward". Mattarella was speaking at a ceremony for the anniversary of the First World War at Asiago, one of the key WWI battlegrounds between Italy and Austria.