Work means rights, dignity, and
inclusion, President Sergio Mattarella said at a civic event in
Milan Thursday.
"Work is a right, it is dignity, it is inclusion. And it is no
coincidence that Article 1 of our Constitution speaks of work,
making it the foundation of our Republic," he said at 'Civil
Week' addressing a girl, Beatrice, who works at the PizzAut
takeaway pizza firm.
"Just as Article 3 adds not only that every citizen has equal
dignity, but that the State must ensure that what hinders it is
removed," Mattarella added.
Mattarella went on to say that the Constitution had been written
with "great wisdom" and so as to apply to issues that were
unknown at the time.
He said that mooted reforms to the first part of the
Constitution ignored the fact that "what they want to add to the
text is already clearly implied in the norms, because of the
general and flexible character of their formulation and on the
basis of values and principles which represent their
foundation".
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