2021 EUROMESCO ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Barcelona | 15 April 2021
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The EuroMeSCo 2021 Annual Conference "Setting the New Agenda for the Mediterranean in Motion “Shaping Post-Covid Euromed Relations" wll be held online on April 15 at 10h30  (Brussels time) and brought together hundreds of participants around the Mediterranean: among these the Fondazione Mediterraneo, founding member of the EuroMeSCo Network.
With this event EuroMeSCo intends to actively contribute to the reflection over rolling out the new agenda for the Mediterranean, a few weeks after the release of the EU Joint Communication on the Renewed Partnership with the Southern Neighborhood. The Acting Director General of DG NEAR, Maciej Popowski, presented  his Communication, after which a debate will unfold, along the main pillars of the Communication:

• Human development and good governance.
• Resilience, prosperity and the digital transition.
• Migration and mobility.
• Green transition.

This event will kick off a series of national events that will take place in the coming months in some Southern Neighborhood countries: they will offer a platform for further discussions on relevant communication issues and will involve mixed groups of representatives from think tanks, academic institutions, organizations civil society and business community representatives, as well as EU officials.
At the headquarters of the Fondazione Mediterraneo in Naples, through the large video wall screens, members of the Foundation and international experts participated in the event.
On this occasion, President Michele Capasso re-proposed the APPEAL FOR THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD.

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ITALY-USA: THE ITALIAN EMBASSY CELEBRATES 160 YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS. THE FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO PRESENT AT THE EVENT.

Washington DC (USA) | 10 April 2021
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Fondazione Mediterraneo was invited and participated in the commemorative event for the 160th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and the United States of America, organized by the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC, the Central Europe of the Atlantic Council and the ISPI - Italian Institute of International Political Studies, under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic.
The virtual celebrations took place between Italy and the United States on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, at 9:00 (ET), 15:00 (CEST). The event featured discussions on the US - Italy partnership and opportunities for future cooperation in the political, economic and scientific fields.
The celebration was followed by an exclusive virtual performance by the “National Symphony Orchestra” at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, with maestro Gianandrea Noseda, world-renowned Italian conductor. With the administration of Joe Biden and Mario Draghi taking office, this anniversary is a pivotal moment in the US-Italy partnership and the broader transatlantic alliance.
The United States and Italy can leverage their strong historical ties to foster international cooperation on global challenges such as Covid-19 relief and economic recovery, among other issues. The event was broadcast on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. On the same day, the Mediterranean Foundation presented the "APPEAL FOR THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD".

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« TOWARDS NAPLES METROPOLITAN CITY »

Naples | 07 April 2021
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The notes contained in the volume distributed on social networks from today and then in the press, are an invitation to reflect on the future of "Naples Metropolitan City": on the need to reform its institutional structure and to outline environmental and urban transformation processes that 'help to leave behind positions in the rankings for quality of life. The data collected are certainly not exhaustive: they are the minimums sufficient to highlight glaring anomalies or contradictions that lead us to suggest how to abandon "the era of unjustified ignorance" and how to outline a suitable institutional and urban reorganization. Again in summary form, they document how precisely in Naples - with the Framework Plan of Equipment (1974/75) - a first organic proposal was formulated on an urban scale of what will then happily be theorized in 2003 in "Five Minutes City" giving rise to principles and to techniques, first of all sporadic, which - from 2017 - begin to spread a little everywhere, from Canada to Australia and also in Europe. In the final pages, first notes of these logics in some and very different areas of the territory of “Naples Metropolitan City.
Volume was edited by “Civilizzare l’urbano - ETS” (with Patrizia Bottaro and Massimo Pica Ciamarra) and by “NA.ME. - Institute for transformations of Naples Metropolitan City” (with Pasquale Belfiore, Alessandro Castagnaro, Ottorino Celano, Massimo Clemente, Annalola Geirola, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Riccardo Rosi) with contributions by Valerio Barone (institutional aspects), Michele Capasso, Livio De Santoli (energy and sustainability), Paolo Frascani (economic history), Claudio Troisi (infrastructure and mobility) and by Gennaro Russo and Claudio Voto (Italian Institute for the Future / Center for Near Space).
The video edited by Michele Capasso (“Fondazione Mediterraneo”)  is titled:“verso Napoli Città Metropolitana” 2021.

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APPEAL FOR THE COOPERATION OF ALL AGAINST COVID 19

Naples - Rabat - Tunis | 26 March 2021
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

In this particular historical moment, in which the whole world is involved in what could become a human tragedy - a desperate war against the invisible enemy Covid 19 - the cooperation of all of us is needed.
If for once the humanitarian spirit prevailed over the political-economic power of multinationals, a solution could be found by liberalizing the patents of the vaccine manufacturers, allowing their production on site and encouraging them. To this end, the cooperation of all states for a shared common strategy would be needed. It is not, in fact, a struggle to impose a product on the markets:

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