It will be held on 18 January at Palazzo Altieri in Rome - in the presence of the President of ABI, Antonio Patuelli, of the Director General of ABI, Giovanni Sabatini, of the President of the Einaudi Institute for banking, financial and insurance studies, Maurizio Sella , by the Minister of Economy, Giovanni Tria, by the Governor of the Bank of Italy, Ignazio Visco, and by the Honorary President of the Guido Carli Foundation, Gianni Letta - the presentation of the volume "Market, Europe and freedom", which collects the speeches given from Guido Carli to the meetings of the Italian Banking Association and the World Savings Days.

The book, published by Editori Laterza, is introduced by the preface signed by Patuelli and Sella. Curated by Federico Pascucci, Secretary General of the Einaudi Institute, it is enriched by a profile of Carli signed by Alfredo Gigliobianco, manager of the Bank of Italy. Promoted by Abi and the Einaudi Institute, "Market, Europe and Freedom", it is part of the series "History and Society" and is the third work published on impulse by Abi and Istituto Einaudi after the books dedicated by Laterza to Luigi's writings Einaudi and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.

The aim of the volume is to celebrate the topicality of the figure of Guido Carli, protagonist of the process of building a united Europe as well as of the Italian economic rebirth, while offering a significant cross-section of the history of the Nation after World War II, seen through the lens of finance. and the economy. The book collects the 14 interventions made by Carli in the years in which he was Governor of the Bank of Italy (1960-1975) at the ABI assemblies, supplemented by those given at the celebrations of the Days of savings. The volume also includes the three reports given at the ABI assemblies in the years 1990, 1991 and 1992, the period in which he was Minister of the Treasury.

Through the reflections of Guido Carli, focused on credit issues during the years in which he was Governor, some crucial moments of the years of the economic boom re-emerge. At the beginning of the 1960s, for example, Carli invited banks to reconcile "under all circumstances" the activity of adequate support for an expanding economy with the protection of its capital strength and depositors. The interventions at the ABI assemblies between the 1990 and 1992, focused on economic and monetary policy, are at a crucial stage of public engagement by Guido Carli, who as Minister of the Treasury served the Republic in a fundamental three-year period for the implementation of the reform of the credit and financial sector, which culminated in the 1993 Banking Act, and which laid the foundations for Italy's accession to the European Union, enshrined in the Treaty signed in Maastricht in February 1992 and of which Carli was, for Italy, the main architect.

"That act - reads the preface to the volume, edited by Patuelli and Sella - was at the same time the crowning and spiritual testament of a statesman who was able to offer the country, in the span of fifty years of public commitment, a contribution of the highest value moral, civil and economic. And who was a cultural precursor and convinced supporter of the pro-European plan. From one of the fathers of the European Union, whose renewed foundations were established at the beginning of the nineties, comes to us - conclude Patuelli and Sella - a lesson, always relevant, which translates into the convinced urge to proceed with the same tenacity, the same determination, the same conviction then proffered by Guido Carli, in order to establish as soon as possible the conditions for the perfecting and completion of a European construction that has not yet been fully completed".

ABI: promotes the publication of the book "Market, Europe and freedom"