The issues of the South but also the global geopolitical scenarios in the intervention of the mayor of Benevento Clemente Mastella for the inauguration of the academic year of the University of Sannio. The first citizen expressed fear «for the sunset of peace in Europe and the third Gulf war, marked by a military escalation in the Red Sea that has serious economic consequences and unpredictable military repercussions»

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Mastella then urged young people «to have a projective tension towards the future, to never lie down on the edges of the sidewalk of life. The greatest risk is choosing not to risk». He then warned about the risks of depopulation «which afflicts the South and therefore our city» saying he was worried «that differentiated autonomy could aggravate this process of demographic impoverishment in the South, widening the gaps».