The Jury of the Fondazione Mediterraneo decided during the extraordinary session to give to the State Prosecutor in Naples Vincenzo Galgano the Mediterranean Award "Honour Medal" 2010. The presentation occurred during the ceremony of the Mediterranean Award for Institutions given to the President of the French Republic Nicolas Sarkozy.
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28 June 2010
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On the occasion of the birth of the Union for the Mediterranean, the Fondazione Mediterraneo announced the awarding of the "Mediterranean Institutions Award 2008 - the "Totem of Peace" by sculptor Mario Molinari - to President Nicolas Sarkozy. In the reasons of the Award you can read: “For his idea of a Euro-Mediterranean Union: a political action able to change radically the inter-Mediterranean relationships".
The Awarding Ceremony took place on June the 28th 2010 at the Fondazione Mediterraneo - Maison de la Paix. The French Ambassador Jean-Marc de la Sablière, together with a delegation from the French Republic, came to Naples to retire the award.
Michele Capasso, President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo visited Positano after 30 years (he is among the authors of the Hotel San Pietro in Positano) and promoted the project of the Totem for Peace, by the sculptor artist Mario Molinari, to be implemented all over the world.
On the occasion of the starting of activities of the "Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture" the work by the Turin sculptor Mario Molinari "Totem of Peace", symbol for the peace in the world, was unveiled.
From today onwards, peace has its own address: Via Depretis, 130, in Naples, headquarter for the Fondazione Mediterraneo and now for a great action for peace too: the Maison de la Paix.