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We look at the world scene, there is a new great protagonist, the European union. But the European union has an unusual presence inside a geoeconomical picture and inside a geopolitical worldwide picture. And it's an atypical subject. We see what atypical subject means: first of all it is a atypical geoconomical subject. They are point of strength and points of weakness. Strength's points: four of the more industrialized countries of the world, that belong to the G8, are European countries; there is a common commercial governance commercial; there is only one external commercial politics, another point of strength; there is single politics of competition and market advanced, and also this is a point of strength; and then there is the monetary area of the Euro, the Euro is today already a great worldwide coin, but could become even more if the diversified integration also allow the entry, for instance, of Great Britain. However these are points of strength, but we see the points of weakness. The first point of weakness meanwhile is that, for instance, as it regards the Euro, there is not still a full correspondence between the countries of the European union and the countries of the monetary area of the Euro. But we add then another characteristic of weakness: the aspects of monetary politics are more easily adjustable from the European Common Bank, but to have a really common economic politics the footsteps to complete are still a lot, thinking about all the polemics that have concerned the pact of stability and growth, and then we still think about all the difficulties that we record for a full affirmation of the free market and for a full affirmation of the politics of the competition. The same can be said about political field, in geopolitical terms. Also here the European union is an atypical subject. Meanwhile it has a continental dimension and this is a point of great importance; second, it has an capacity of attraction, the so-called soft power, towards other countries not yet members of the union, that are another fundamental geopolitical element; and then, we say the truth, it has this solid tradition, this anchorage to the values of freedom, democracy, respect of the fundamental rights and law. But, the points of weakness: the Politics Foreign safety Commune is still very weak; the Politics of European Defense is still marginal; and then the weight of the national political situations is very strong, curtains sometimes, as in the case of the referenda for the constitutional treaty, to overhang the motives for community integration. The roads to be completed because Europe can be a stronger subject on the international scene: first of all there is the road of the economic strengthening. It needs to transform the ties that derive from the being passed to 25 in opportunity; second, it is necessary to continue in more resolved way, and also a country as Italy has a lot to complete in this field in the sectors of the competition and the market, that sufficiently are not never open. Last, it's necessary, inside the great international monetary and financial institutions, to start with the reform of the International Monetary Fund. We are singly present, but it is absolutely essential that we arrives to an unique voice, in breast to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. And then we can face the challenge of the so-called BRICses: Brazil, Russia, India and China. We need to be stronger on the political plan, shared choices in the great world crises, repeat: shared choices in the great world crises as that, for example, that concerned the American intervention in Iraq. Second: convergence of positions in breast to the great world institutions of the interdependence, to start from the United Nations. Now it's important, for instance, the reform of the United Nations. But all these things, economic strengthening, political strengthening, need two pre-conditions: the first one common conscience above the national
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