«What you have carried out and are carrying out is an important welfare experience. In perfect coincidence with what our Constitution urges which provides, with a happy and therefore truly innovative model, a large reserved space for citizens' initiatives, for autonomous initiatives, as individuals or in social groups, as the Constitution says. Not everything is entrusted, in that perspective, to public authorities. There is ample space reserved for the autonomous initiatives of citizens, who are concerned with working towards general interests."

The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, said this while receiving the Casagit leaders at the Quirinale.

«In this meeting, in this connection between the action of public authorities and the spontaneous and autonomous initiatives of citizens, there is actually both the condition and the purpose of democracy. For this reason", added the Head of State, "experience is important and Casagit contributes to this important picture of balance in the life of our country. It is also important because what Casagit carries out is an exercise in freedom. From his words it clearly emerged that social security guarantees the freedom, tranquility, serenity and therefore the freedom of action of those who turn to it. Even more so as it concerns those who are called to express and interpret freedom of the press. So it is a double contribution to freedom."

(Unioneonline)