Emanuele Rossi

The European integration process, partly fulfilled and partly in progress, allows us to evaluate some relevant achievements, like as monetary and economic integration, a common pattern of values, the specification of common objectives, in and outside the Union. These significant goals request - to perform a more perfect integration process - that we unify the different routes developed, starting from the balancing between the reinforcement of the «European constitutional heritage» and the writing of a future European Constitution. The fundamental aim of that balancing should ease the development of a European identity and, on the other side, the incremental consolidation of common values, pursuing a virtuous logic which would be able to set peace, freedom, and solidarity as ultimate goals of the European law system, on the inner as on the outer side; it will make Europe, in the words of Pope John Paul, II «everybody's home, where no person neither people should feel excluded from».