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Speaking about the international role of the European union, a matter that is present to the collective conscience and also to the decisions of the political responsible it's the matter of the future widening. We are a Europe to 25, with 485 million inhabitants, we are now a great identity to world level, but it seems that the trial is not ended, rather I believe, that is not ended in every case. Do we want to see which the perspectives of the future widening are, done also examine under the visual angle of the international presence of the European union? We start from the next step: 2007, drawbacks excepted of the last time, Romania and Bulgaria. Romania and Bulgaria will bring the European union from 25 to 27, in 2007, difficulty excepted of the last time. But we immediately pass then to the second case, the negotiation formally open with Turkey. It has been a suffered decision, but at the end of 2004 the European union has decided to begin the negotiations for a future adhesion to the European union, but this time choosing as unity of measure an even decennial period. This evidently for a series of problems that worth here to remember in summary way. There are open problems, first of all regarding the same geographical dimension of Europe. For many people there are also some difficulties from the point of view of the external borders of the union. But there are also demographical problems, because Turkey, also with its demografical actual course, will have the tendency to become the most populous country among all the countries of the union. Then there are problems of real assimilation or perceived assimilation, that are also particularly insidious in a geopolitics phase as that we are living. I mean in particular to the matters of the Islam. Certain, Turkey would have an enormous advantage, it is moderate Islam, but we also want to say that there is not only a moderate Islam and this is extremely important in a phase as that opened in the world, but, we add, the European union would assume full conscience of its worldwide geopolitical responsibility. Since an European union that included Turkey would confine with Iran, Iraq and Syria and, to this point, it would become difficult for us to escape to this world responsibility. The matter however it is still open, but we look instead at a perspective that, in some way, is forced for us and we give to see the future widening from the side of the western Balkans. It is not anymore here matter of probability and possibility, here it is a matter of political obligation for the European union, to include these countries. These countries are the Croazia, Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia Erzegovina, the Macedonia and Albania. It is not possible that the European union as continental geopolitical subject allows that these countries a close from our frontiers will be in recurrent crisis recurrent instability that, in some way, can be considered chronic. We speek of balkanization as pathology of the international system. What isl the road for these countries? The road for these countries passes from a specific formula that the European union has solemnly adopted with the European Council of Salonicco in June of 2003. It is the so-called Agenda of Salonicco. There is a preliminary road in this case, a form institutionalized of pre-adhesion, longer according to the different countries and it is the formula of the "Pact of Stability and Association". These countries will have to pass all of there. Some countries are already very more advanced, like Croazia; for others there are still extremely difficult problems, we think about Bosnia Erzegovina, but we think about the Serbia and Montenegro with the enclave of the Kosovo that still represents one of the most critical points of the Balkan situation. Someone proposes that the Kosovo becomes the sixth autonomous and independent republic of the Balkans, but these are details. The fundamental thing that we want underline is that without the countr
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