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MEDITERRANEAN PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY AND FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO JOINED ENERGYMED
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10 April 2015
Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (APM) –which gathers together 28 Countries of the Mediterranean area- and Fondazione Mediterraneo (FM) supported and joined the 2015 edition of “Energymed”. APM General Secretary, Sergio Piazzi, and FM President, Michele Capasso, - at the end of the events of 10 April 2015 –expressed both their awareness that the ethical usage of energy sources and their being renewable is one of the crucial elements of social equilibrium and the consequent peace and political stability.
ENERGYMED – INTERNATIONAL MEETING. TOWARDS THE EURO MEDITERRANEAN PLATFORM: FINANCING FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
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10 April 2015
Fondazione Mediterraneo and RIDE –Italian Network for Euro Mediterranean Dialogue, joined the International Meeting dedicated to energy efficiency and renewable energy sources in Mediterranean, being aware of how much these topics are important in the social peace process and intercultural dialogue.
ARCHITECTS, TOWN PLANNERS, NOBEL PRIZES AND EXPONENTS OF CULTURAL AND CIVIL SOCIETY WORLD SUPPORT THE TOTEM OF PEACE WITH THE URN OF UNKNOWN MIGRANT.
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07 April 2015
The "Totem of Peace with the urn of Unknown Migrant" – installed in Naples Port in the occasion of 150° anniversary of Port Captaincy – Coast Guard- has been praised not only by public and tourists of cruises, but got also the approval of architects, town planners, Nobel prizes and exponents of cultural and civil society’s world.
NEAPOLITAN PEOPLE AND FOREIGN TOURISTS PRAISED THE TOTEM OF PEACE WHICH HOSTS THE URN OF UKNOWN MIGRANT
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01 April 2015
Neapolitan people and foreign tourists really appreciated the “Totem of Peace which hosts the urn of the unknown migrant”, artwork with a strong symbolic meaning, which got also the approval of Tunisian and Algerian mothers who lost their children in the sea.
20TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE. “THE MIDDLE EAST: SHIFTING ROLES, INTERESTS AND ALLIANCES”
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01 April 2015
The Conference was aimed to offering a platform from which an integrated approach can be established to set priorities regarding the challenges facing the region. It also provided opportunities to explore future strategic trends and develop a comprehensive view of events at all levels in light of the rapid pace of current developments.
The conference hosted experts on domestic, regional and international issues, including officials, academics, strategic experts, media representatives and diplomats from the UAE and abroad. They exchanged ideas and opinion with a view to establishing common findings.
UNION FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN SENIOR OFFICIALS MEETING
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31 March 2015
The meeting of Union of Mediterranean Senior Officials took place in Bruxelles.
In this occasion the Anna Lindh Foundation Executive Director Hatem Atallah introduced himself and the Italian delegation presented a paper about EXPO 2015.
FONDAZIONE JOINS THE RALLY AGAINST TERRORISM
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28 March 2015
Two weeks after the attack at Bardo Museum, in which 22 people lost their lives, thousands of people joined the rally against terrorism. Among them there were also Tunisian authorities and leaders of foreign countries as Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, French President François Hollande and the President Abu Mazen.
In his encounter with Abu Mazen Michele Capasso talked with him about Abu Mazen visit in Fondazione Mediterraneo. Already years before the President was concerned about the increase of terrorist danger in Arab countries as Tunisia which are undertaking the difficult path of democracy and peaceful coexistence among different cultures and civilizations.
The official slogan is "The world is Bardo". Before the start of the march the premier Habib Essid announced the murder of the leader of the terrorist group by Tunisian task forces. He is Khaled Chaib, known also as Lokman Abou Sakher. Lokman was leader of the local terrorist group Ukba Ibn Nafi whose headquarters is in the Chaambi mountains at the borders with Algeria. The premier affirmed that the kill of Chaib happened yesterday in Gafsa region. As it has happened also in the aftermath of terrorist attacks to the French journal Charlie Hebdo: "Tunisia is not alone – the president Renzi said – we are here to show our support to this country. We are not surrending to terrorists and we will keep fighting for peace and freedom ideals".
ALGERIAN AND TUNISIAN MOTHERS WHO JOINED THE TUNIS WORLD SOCIAL FORUM PRAISED THE TOTEM OF PEACE DEDICATED TO UNKNOWN MIGRANT
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27 March 2015
Tunisian and Algerian mothers who joined the Tunis Forum really appreciated the efforts made by Fondazione Mediterraneo in order to give back dignity to migrants who lost their lives in the sea. In particular, the installation in Naples of the “Totem of Peace with the urn of Unknown Migrant” has been praised. The president Michele Capasso, who is engaged for 25 years in the support of solidarity and peace, has declared:
“The Totem of Peace with the urn of Unknown Migrant installed in Naples Port intends to be concrete proof of respect both towards people dead in the sea and Captain Port- Guard Coast which is engaged in the rescue of human beings. The support of Algerian and Tunisian mothers is the proof which the undertaken issue is deserved homage to whom who through the loss of their lives take the attention of the world back to the issues of liberty, freedom and peace”. The topic of migrants dead in the sea has been one of the most important ones discussed at Tunis World Social Forum. The mothers of Tunisians who lose their lives after the 2011 revolution are asking again to Europe to: "Give back our children". There are more than five hundred Tunisian mothers who are in search of their "desaparecidos" during their travel to Italy. The grief of Tunisian mothers is partaken also by Middle American mothers. At Tunis there was also Marta Sánchez Soler, coordinator of Middle American Migrant Movement and which intends focus the attention to lost people in the world and build a global network between Tunisian, Algerian and Plaza de Mayo mothers yelling the hopefully slogan: “ They took them alive and we want them back alive. ”At Tunis Forum mothers partook their grief and struggled towards the institutions which are trying to distort the truth. In the pictures and in the faces which mothers hold in their hands there is the will to take identity and give it back and give human form to the data: these are the efforts of European civil society which thanks to the Forum had the occasion to become one thing. The aim is to “build a Mediterranean space and make it be a space in which dignity, social justice and rights for all are the priority”.
MEETING: “THE CONTRAST TO MAFIA AT LOCAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL LEVEL”
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25 March 2015
The meeting “The contrast to mafia at local, regional and national level took place in the New Hall of the House at the presence of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella. The meeting was sponsored by the Anti-mafia Parliamentary Commission. It was the first time that such a meeting, aiming at analysing the situation in the fight to organized criminality in different territorial institutions, was sponsored by the Parliament. Such a need was due to the evolution of mafia power which is showing an outsourcing of criminal interests and a settlement capacity in all Italian regions. Joined the meeting the President of the Parliament Laura Boldrini, and the President of Senate, Piero Grasso. Rosy Bindi, President of Parliamentary Commission Anti-mafia presented the report “The action of public powers in the mafia struggle: the role of Parliamentary Commission”. After, there was a speech about “The action of regional governments” which joined Stefano Caldoro, Campania President Region and Rosario Crocetta, Sicily Region President. The issue “Role of Mayors” has been discussed by the mayors of Reggio Calabria and Milan Giuseppe Falcomatà and Giuliano Pisapia.
The meeting continued in the afternoon at 14:30 when don Luigi Ciotti gave a speech titled “Associations question local and national institutions” which was followed by a discussion among Parliamentary Commission and regional ones. In conclusion there was a speech by Rosy Bindi.
Salvatore Càlleri, Michele Capasso and Pia Molinari joined the meeting in behalf of Fondazione Mediterraneo and Caponnetto Foundation –which gave birth together to “Mediterranean Observatory about Organized Criminality and Mafias”.
MEETING WITH AMB. HATEM ATALLAH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ANNA LINDH
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25 March 2015
The meeting between Italian Network FAL and Ambassador Hatem Atallah, new executive director of Anna Lindh Foundation took place in Farnesina. Aim of the meeting was examining the most important issues to Italian Network, with the goal of keep going with the events of ten years anniversary and make real the Italian proposal to host a FAL research centre which can also be used as meeting center for the Foudation’s Consultative Board. The Ambassador Atallah, along with Paul Walton, was welcomed by Min.Pl. Enrico Granara and RIDE Hon. President Michele Capasso.