On a beautiful spring day in Rome’s Piazza Montecitorio, around two hundred people, properly dressed and moderately noisy, neatly passed the security checks and entered the Queen’s Hall of the Chamber of Deputies. They are entrepreneurs, representatives of the social partners, health and insurance professionals.

I decide instantly: I am sacrificing the planned monographic edition on Brexit to devote the summer issue of our magazine to this day of competent reflection and calm assessment and judgement.

Below is the stenographic report of the event from the official website of the Chamber of Deputies.