The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella is expected in Trento for the conferral of an honorary degree in European and International Studies to Antonio Megalizzi.
The opening speech will be delivered by the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli.
The ceremony, starting at 11 am, will take place at Palazzo Prodi, the headquarters of the School of International Studies, a structure that coordinates the master's degree in European and International Studies that Antonio attended.
"The Faculty of Arts was the home of Antonio Megalizzi".
Thus the rector Flavio Deflorian before the ceremony.
"Many thought that Europe as a unity was a consolidated fact, but Antonio's generation understood that there is still a lot to be built".
"Antonio was the son of the city of Trento, who never stopped remembering him. In the immense tragedy of Strasbourg we discovered people like Antonio who are building a stronger Europe that looks to the future", added the mayor of Trento, Franco Ianeselli.
"We live it as if it were Antonio's graduation, as if he had done it.
We are proud
"So Luana Moresco at the delivery of the degree in memory of Antonio Megalizzi, the boyfriend who died in the terrorist attack in Strasbourg in 2018. In Trento everything is ready for the ceremony that will take place in the presence of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and which will open , after a greeting address by the rector of UniTrento Flavio Deflorian, with the intervention of the president of the European Parliament David Sassoli. "The presence of President Mattarella - said Luana Moresco - confirms the great respect that Antonio had for the institutions. The President has always been close to us, with the discretion that distinguishes him ". The participation of David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament is also significant:" The European Parliament was Antonio's passion,he had a strong bond with Strasbourg and his dream would have been to work there. "
"Antonio Megalizzi had a modern idea of Europe. The presence today of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella is a great recognition of which Trentino is proud". This is what Maurizio Fugatti, president of the Autonomous Province of Trento underlined at the graduation ceremony in memory of Antonio Megalizzi.