In a Europe that too often seems icy and engulfed by inferior accounting acronyms such as ESM or Stability Pact, there is finally someone who tries to feed its soul by evoking glorious European myths of the past, such as Frederick II. Thanks to ECR MEP Carlo Ciccioli, the mythological figure of a half-German, half-Sicilian who, with his itinerant court, made the history of Europe great because he understood before others the importance of the Mediterranean for the continent. A continent that in recent years has too often been the victim of a Baltic shrinkage, dominated by a purely Teutonic and short-sighted vision.