MagazineJune 6, 2019 Maurizio Bettini’s opening speech: Purity of Europe a Myth The discussion of whether open (boundless) or closed (isolated) state systems are more successful in the long term is as old as the history of Europe itself. While the ancient Greeks never granted land and civil rights to strangers and immigrants (metics), in Roman Empire even slaves become citizens. The origin of foreign soil wasweiter ...