“For the government, for the whole government, the most important challenge is that of the birth rate: it is more important than energy supply and migration,” he said at the annual meeting of influential lay Catholic activist group Communion and Liberation in Rimini.
“A social body that refuses to bring children into the world has no hope in the future.
“The challenge must be faced in a serious way and in stages that put aside easy slogans.
“The demographic collapse is the element of greatest crisis for Italy today,” the right hand man of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, said.
Amongst a range of other subject areas he covered at the meeting, including Ukraine, Africa and the complexities and positives of European Union membership, Mantovano also spoke about the nation’s ongoing battle with the mafia.
“[It] continues with the historical objectives, the capture of fugitives, as happened with Matteo Messina Denaro,” he said.
“Cosa nostra exists and must be opposed, but it has a less devastating power, the same goes for the Camorra. The most worrying criminal reality remains the ‘Ndrangheta,” he said.
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