Nations must guard against any resurgence of nationalism, xenophobia or racism, Italy's prime minister Paolo Gentiloni warned in a speech Wednesday in Berlin.
"The European model of an open society works and we must keep investing against a revival of nationalism or xenophobic or racist attitudes," Gentiloni said in the address at the Humboldt University.
"We absolutely cannot give up democracy and liberty," he said during the speech on Italy's relations with Germany.
Gentiloni cut short his official visit after German Chancellor Angela Merkel rescheduled their meeting when negotiations on a coalition government stretched into Wednesday from a weekend deadline.
