Mario de Marco’s article on war and peace must have provoked much thought but left one with little added hope for the futureof mankind.

As a senior politician and a deputy leader of the Nationalist Party, de Marco’s pessimistic outlook seems at odds with the Christian democratic ideology his party inherited from such stalwarts as De Gasperi, Adenauer and Schumann whose faith in a United Europe as a guarantor of peace in Europe has so far been realised.

That was a courageous step forward taken by politicians who believed politics could make a difference in such a vital matter as that of peace in Europe, and this was subsequently subscribed to by many other European states including Malta led by de Marco’s Nationalist Party.

But perhaps, like many others, I fail to comprehend the present ideology, if any, at the root of the Nationalist Party.

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