THE PRESIDENT OF THE EC JUNCKER MEETS THE PRESIDENT OF TUNISIA ESSEBSI

Tunis | 25 October 2018
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During a cordial meeting at the Palace of Carthage, the President of the European Commission, Jeam-Claude Juncker, met the President of Tunisia Caid Essebsi.
In this meeting, President Juncker announced that the Commission had withdrawn Tunisia from the "black lists" of third countries for funding terrorist groups.
On this occasion, it confirmed the granting of a loan to Tunisia by the EU for 270 million euro to strengthen the strategic partnership.
President Capasso, present in Tunis, welcomed this further step towards a closer structuring of relations between Tunisia and the EU, recalling the proposal of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, since 1997, to associate countries such as Tunisia and Morocco with EU to strengthen peace and cooperation.

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TUNISIA, COUSIN SEA

Gammarth | 25 October 2018
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The president of the Mediterranean Foundation Michele Capasso, during his trip to Tunisia, has retraced an itinerary on camel from Gammarth to Bizerte: the same carried out in 1989 with his fraternal friend Predrag Matvejevic' (with him and other Mediterranean intellectuals he created the Foundation thirty years ago) that defined Tunisia as "cousin sea".

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SECOND CONFERENCE "ITALY-AFRICA"

Rome | 25 October 2018
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The "Second Italy-Africa Conference" was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Farnesina).
Three hundred and fifty delegates representing 46 African countries and 13 international organizations, including the African Union.
The Fondazione Mediterraneo expresses its satisfaction with this important initiative which represents an important moment of structured dialogue between Italy and the states of the African continent.
President Mattarella said in his speech that "The main objective for the future depends on the ability to work together to go beyond the logic of emergence, governing the phenomenon, removing the root causes".
President Capasso underlined the need to structure a stable partnership between Italy and the African countries in order to create more actions capable of training young people in Africa: "In the near future - said Capasso - Italy, following the path of aging of its population, it will need migrants capable of assuming operational roles in society: the challenge is to know how to train and integrate them by abandoning the concept of "tolerance" to assume that of "coexistence".

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THE OUR FATHER RECITED BY THE LITTLE RAUL ENCHANTS THE VISITORS OF THE EMOTIONAL PATHWAY "ONE SEA, THREE FAITHS"

Naples | 22 October 2018
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The Our Father recited by the little Raul enchants the visitors of the emotional pathway "One sea, Three faiths".

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