A young diplomat serving at the Italian embassy in Bonn, Mauro Battocchi was a direct witness of one of the most complex diplomatic campaigns that our country has conducted in recent decades: the negotiation that led Italy between 1996 and 1998 in the core of the founders of the single currency. Then as now, Italy was looking for a lifeline in Europe, after having experienced a devastating crisis; the risk of being cut off from the union that was being built around the new currency was collectively perceived as an existential threat and the country was able to react by mobilizing all the resources to continue sharing its destiny with the rest of the continent. Of these events Battocchi
returns a story, as lively as a novel, which adds a good dose of humanity to the numbers and financial criteria, outlining a chapter of homeland history that is not sufficiently known although it constitutes a crucial junction in our being Europeans. A young diplomat serving at the Italian embassy in Bonn, Mauro Battocchi was a direct witness of one of the most complex diplomatic campaigns that our country has conducted in recent decades: the negotiation that led Italy between 1996 and 1998 in the core of the founders of the single currency. The diary of those events highlights the flexibility and value of our diplomacy, demonstrating how much this instrument, both ancient and modern, is essential for the protection of national interests and the management of a credible and effective foreign policy: especially for a country that – now as then – must necessarily look beyond its borders, without losing sight of Europe, not even (or perhaps above all) in the most difficult moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For years, diplomat Stefano Baldi has been responsible for the “La Penna del Diplomatico” project, which catalogs the works written by his Italian colleagues and moderates a series of recently published book presentations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5226,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"channel":[],"event_type":[87],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n