President Sergio Mattarella said Geneva's nuclear physics lab CERN contributes to EU strategic autonomy at a ceremony marking its 70th birthday Tuesday. "In expressing appreciation for the results that the European Centre for Nuclear Research has been able to achieve in its first seventy years of life, I would like to point out how CERN has represented a virtuous example of European cooperation in a global reality marked - also in the scientific field - by powers of a scale infinitely superior to our national horizons," he said. "Progress means common commitment so that the Centre can continue to exercise its role of excellence, contributing to European leadership in a key sector for the strategic autonomy of the Continent". Source: Ansa News Agency