Culture Minister Dario Franceschini on
Thursday called for Italy to rally together and rebuild after
the coronavirus crisis as it did after the Second World War.
"We have an enormous job on our hands, we have before us a
phase of reconstruction in which we must all learn a lot from
the lesson that history gives us," he said.
"After World War Two Italy showed an extraordinary capacity,
we were poor, destroyed by a war, the cultural patrimony itself
was devastated.
"And yet there was an extraordinary capacity to rebuild
everything and to become in a short time the world's fifth
biggest industrial power.
"And it isn't as if there were not any political clashes.
"...So I would like us to learn from that (experience) for
this second reconstruction of our country".
Franceschini launched his appeal for national unity in
post-coronavirus reconstruction in a briefing to the House.
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