Title: Introduction to the special issue on the G20 Rome Declaration at the Global Health Summit in Rome on 21 May 2021
Abstract: Often I 1 have repeatedly complained about the absence, in any form, of a policy of intervention and coordination of health care systems implemented in different countries.In particular, I recalled the lack, increasingly evident and worrying, of a real interest of the European Union in achieving an objective that for many years had proved important and decisive: that the European Union should also deal with the Public Health of the member countries, with the conviction that only through joint and responsible action it would be possible to face the now inevitable challenges, unfortunately more and more frequent, with greater virulence and breadth in the life of each of us, conditioning its social, economic and cultural development, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown up.The protection of health is an absolute value, in the awareness that only its full protection is the preliminary reason for any related objective [1].In the protection of health, and therefore in the primary protection of the individual and the community in which he operates, there can be found the foundations of life, first of all, and of civil life, consequently.Protection requires, however, a strong commitment to cooperation at international level.The action of the individual State is not sufficient and, at the same time, joint action is not sufficient, given that, if the participation of even a single State fails, such non-acceptance can render the efforts useless.That is why the mere constitutional provision is no longer the guarantee for effective protection.It is essential for the international community to share certain general principles and to adhere together to the pursuit of certain objectives which can only find their fundamental conditions in dialogue and mutual collaboration.International organizations, both governmental and non-governmental, will have to work in this direction and the agreed programs, as well as the interventions that will be considered indispensable, will therefore be entrusted to the responsibility of the individual State which, within itself, will have to work accordingly [2].1 Not alone but together with many other much more authoritative scholars of the issue concerning the now internationally recognized fundamental right to the protection of the health of all citizens, in every part of the world.