During a meeting between the architect Michele Capasso and the writer Predrag Matvejevic', the idea of setting up a "Workshop for the Greater Mediterranean" was born within the UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD: the aim is to promote dialogue and cooperation through concrete actions within a coalition of shared values and interests among all the countries that make up the "Greater Mediterranean": the EU countries, those that face onto the southern shore of the Mediterranean, together with those that face onto the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf.
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09 November 1989
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: The United States of the World
"As of tonight, the border is open". This announcement by the leader of the Berlin Communist Party, Gunter Schabowsky, on 9 November 1989 marked the start of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the true symbol of the Cold War, built in 1961 by the regime headed by Walter Ulbricht.
Architect Michele Capasso was in Berlin at this historic moment. He talks about it with Lilli Gruber - TG2 correspondent - and other Italians present in the "capital" city of the two Germanies.
It was on this occasion that Capasso thought that the dream of the UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD - proposed by Gustavo Rol in 1987 - and of the UNITED STATES OF EUROPE could be pursued.
A few days later, it was his idea to set up a foundation for the United States of Europe and the Mediterranean.
Two hundred students from various schools in Campania gathered at the "United States of the World" headquarters for the "Italian Model United Nation" meeting, organised by the United Network Association under the patronage of the "United States of the World" and in collaboration with the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Museum of Peace MAMT.
Since its inauguration in October 2010 in the presence of the Presidents of the Parliaments of the world's major countries, the "Totem for Peace" by sculptor Mario Molinari has been welcoming visitors to the House of Representatives of the Kingdom of Morocco.
A group of men and women of culture and science - coming from various cities in China and hosted by the "Anna Lindh Italia onlus Federation" - visited the United States of the World headquarters with the Peace Museum.