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Italy the seat of power and the one who ties the head where victory shrouds the crown The slave of Rome and God created her Italy Italy's seat of power and the modiscipio who tied the head where victory shrouds the crown The slave of Rome and God created her We are ready for death we are ready for death Italy called We are ready for death we are ready for death Italy called Hello everyone thank you so much for being here thank you for being here despite the rain truly daring We weren't lucky this year with this initiative from the weather and time perspective but we still wanted to confirm it anyway We now consider it a tradition of this institution and since institutions also live on traditions we liked to confirm it We wanted this moment to be celebrated because it is a precious moment for us especially for me Because it's one of the rare moments when I can look you in the eyes even though with the umbrellas I mean those behind me I can't see them but saying the height doesn't help me but I can look all of you in the eyes including those in the window Hello and thank you of course thank you for your work thank you to each of you Clearly starting with the people who work most closely with me every day my chief of staff Caetano Caputi Together with the entire cabinet office Fabrizio Sargio is the office of the diplomatic advisor Franco Federici is the military advisor's office Francesca Quadri is the legislative office Fabrizio Alfano is the press office Filippo Attili will be caught somewhere Trying to take photos from the right angle until all the social media guys the my secretary Patrizia Scurti Paolo Quadrozz Every individual employee every department every manager every official in a machine that is extremely complex And therefore of course thanks to Carlo Deodato general secretary of Palazzo Chigi the deputy general secretaries and all the directors The entire structure is difficult to manage because it's really not easy to govern a structure like this This is a structure it's an administration that has its own unique characteristics You know it better than me it's an administration that must always know how to reinvent itself based on the government that arrives In line with the priorities that this government sets the structure does not remain static it is rethought reimagined and adapted There is a need for extraordinary creativity and extraordinary professionalism to do a job like the one you do o work among Italian government officials especially at Palazzo Chigi and what I have to tell you to you It's that without you we wouldn' t be able to do what we do I want to say and I want to remember not so much to you who already know I want to remind the Italians because we often hear so much but in the end we always hear about the same people and that's fine The credit goes to Meloni or to Antonio Tajani or to Matteo Salvini who also sends his greetings but he was voting in the Senate on the budget Please forgive me excuse me if I told him to stay and do his job in this case as a senator We must remind Italians that any result we bring home is because behind us there is a chain of people who work And if any indication we gave were to stop at a certain point in this mechanism it would have made the work of everyone else useless And so everything that each of you does is actually essential from the things that seem most important to those that apparently seem less important Not for us to give answers to the Italians you are not in the service of the administration you are not in the service of the governme You are serving the Italian people as I am and as everyone obviously the administration and the institutions And so we must all remember at all times especially what William James said that you should act as if what you do makes a difference because it does Every single thing we do every day makes a difference particularly when one has the honor and responsibility of holding a position like that which covers each of us then obviously I want to make some thanks for this beautiful party I would like to thank first of all obviously all the ministers the Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council Alfredo Mantovano Giovan Battista Fazzolari in particular I want to thank Minister Lollo Brigida and with him I want to tha The students and teachers of the schools that are here today and who like every year have set all this up for us I want to mention one by one The Vergani Navarra Institute of Ferrara The Magnachi Solari Institute of Salso Maggiore Terme Francesco Morano Institute of Caivano Domenico Modugno Institute of Polignano The Academy of Advanced Training in Sala Intrecci Castiglione in Teverina thanks of course to all these young people To their teachers for the extraordinary work they have done thanks to the Parmigiano Reggiano consortium and to the Sigillo consortium that brought them here A wonderful glimpse of our excellence remember this year when you sit at the Christmas table You must handle it with care as it is an intangible heritage of humanity and therefore thank you for giving us a piece of these excellences Also to the Grana Padano Consortium and then I want to obviously thank the extraordinary Civil protection The National Alpine Association of Belluno because they brought the tree all the way here We have set up in the courtyard of Palazzo Chigi I must thank the municipality of Lorenzago di Cadore and the province of Belluno For this Christmas tree I must thank the national choir Alpine group from Rome who entertained us with this national anthem and with Christmas carols and then I must thank an employee The presidency of the council that donated the beautiful crib you see in this courtyard It is an extraordinary work that clearly depicts the Nativity in front of a reproduction of the Chigiana Library We're not here for that o live our families to have a little peace to seek a little serenity to seek a little res But we are here above all to celebrate this child who is born to celebrate with him a fundamental part of our identity Because that child that symbol taught us most of what we know about respecting others On the attention for the most vulnerable on love we must be proud of that identity and in celebrating Christmas We can certainly be that I don't want to dedicate anything more to you I want to tell you that in addition to thanking you for your work I care about you because we are already a family a team we fight all year long the year we spent was tough for all of us But don't worry the next one will be much worse so I advise you to rest properly during these holidays and we will receive them in the coming days to continue providing answers to this extraordinary nation that can still amaze the world Thanks to you to your families Merry Christmas and a happy new year