People
- February 08, 2019
Gaetano Armao elected President of the Regional Intergroup for Insularity
Gaetano Armao, Vice-President of the Sicilian Regional Government and Councillor for the Economy, was unanimously elected President of the R...
Armao calls Feltri to his responsibilities in order of an article -in particular- entitled "In the North no Autonomy ... to Sicily instead 2 billion".
"Some newcomers of federalism - writes Armao on his Facebook profile - must know that:
1) what the agreement with Rome recognizes us, the result of a long and difficult negotiation and which is continuing, is only the slightest part of what it takes to recover years of impoverishment of the Sicilians;
2) we the sicilians, have been federalists for some time, certainly since the Constitution of 1812 and even more so since that of 1848 even if for a symmetrical federalism, so we consider the differentiated regionalism of Emilia Romagna, Lombardia and Veneto an opportunity;
3) the approximate way of defining Sicily as 'sprecona' and 'sciamannata', may well respond to a known stereotype, but it is denied by Moody's and Standard&Poor's evaluations that have lowered the rating of many italian regions, including Feltri's one, and financial institutions but not that of Sicily for whose financial reorganization they have expressed appreciation;
4) the 2 billion € that emerge from the agreement are not a tip at all, meanwhile because they are directly related to the rights given by the Statuto Siciliano that is constitutional law, moreover they are not a financial transfer, but are made up of lower disbursements and higher revenues, and also reconnect to onerous financial commitments for Sicily (1 billion € contribution to the recovery of public finance for the three-year period, which can grow for exceptional needs);
5) Feltri can also illustrate to Libero's readers that for 2018, precisely because of the sacrifices of our citizens in recent years, we have lowered regional taxes and we will reduce them even more for foreigners who will be worth living in this paradise, with the operation #nuovisiciliani.
At the end of his post, Armao, invites the journalist to visit Sicily in person and realize for himself the different actual situation compared to the one he mistakenly painted, wishing him happy holidays.
"Dear Feltri, when you prefer the contumelia to the truth of the facts, mimicking the history of our land, and represent it to the citizens, it shows that it is not enough to suite as gentlemen to be so. In Sicily we really think we know something about this human condition.
Happy holidays also to mr.Feltri then, if you want to know more about what we do ... We wait for you on the island with open arms. Come, mr. Feltri and will easily change your mind, as befits intelligent people like you."
featured
- December 23, 2018
Sicilian Government Vice President Gaetano Armao replied to journalist Vittorio Feltri
The Vice President and Councillor for Economics of the Sicilian Government Region, Gaetano Armao, is not in agree with the image of Sicily p...
The Mission took place from December 10 to 13 and saw the participation of three companies in the stone sector (Avola Stone Design, Eraclea Marmi and Hermes Marmi) and seven companies in the food and wine sector (Azienda Agricola Filangeri, Cantina Chitarra, Consorzio Elaion, Il Sole a Cavallo, I Veri Sapori dell'Etna, Only Sicilian Food, Primoti).
These companies, representing excellent products from the island, carried out guided tours and one-to-one meetings with US buyers and importers from the Chicago and Midwest areas, offering a wide range of high quality products. During the B2B meetings for the agro-food sector, which took place at the Conference Center 200 W Madison St, it was found a considerable interest from American traders on several items on display, with particular reference to products based on pistachio, wines of Etna and Nero d'Avola, extra virgin olive oils, liqueur based on seaweed and Sicilian herbs, sea salt of Trapani salt pans and coffee.
At the same time the trade mission was held, an exhibition of fine Sicilian stone materials was also inaugurated in Chicago, at the "Calia Stone Boutique" showroom, located at 154 West Hubbard Street (in the Design District area), which will last until the end of January. The opening night was an opportunity to illustrate to professionals the peculiar characteristics of Sicilian marbles and the different varieties that are extracted and processed in the marble basins of the island.
Sicilian stone companies had several meetings with architects, designers, importers and managers of specialized showrooms and carried out guided tours at leading international architectural firms and warehouses specializing in the import and processing of stone materials.
Every year, the Sicilian Region's Department of Production Activities organises dozens of promotional activities in favour of Sicilian companies in various countries around the world. The main purpose of these actions is to make known the best of the productions of Sicily, the Land of Myths and Traditions, and support companies in international markets, creating business opportunities and organizing meetings with buyers and professionals.
Business
- December 17, 2018
Sicilian products trade mission in Chicago polarizes the interest of US operators
The trade mission organized by the Sicilian Regional Government - Department of Trade and Business as part of the promotional plan for the y...
The act published in the official bulletin of the Campania Region officially recognizes the Assembly of the Mediterranean Macroregion, which recently met in Naples under the coordination of Paolo Pantani and which saw the speeches, in addition to the Regional Ombudsman Giuseppe Fortunato, the deputy Paolo Russo, the economist Rocco Giordano, the Councillor for Citizenship Rights and Social Cohesion of the City Laura Marmorano, the constitutionalists Andrea Piraino and Carlo Amirante, and the MEP Andrea Cozzolino, who sent a video message.
"With the vote of the representatives of the social, economic and institutional world of the motion read and proposed by the coordinator of the Assembly of the Mediterranean Macroregion, Paolo Pantani, "it fills - Fortunato said on that occasion - a historical and geopolitical gap in the Mediterranean area, recorded so far, for the failure to start what was provided for in the Treaty of Lisbon in force since December 31, 2009.
"With the launch of the Action Groups - we read in the decree issued by Fortunato - and the Committee of Coordinators, the Mediterranean Macroregion, ensuring open governance, proceeds to make the European Council adopt the strategy in accordance with procedures and any contribution.
The reform of the Structural Funds, provided by the European Union before the next election phase in 2019, "no longer provides - said the lawyer Fortunato - as reference subjects the regions lagging behind in development, but just the Macroregions, which are already active 4, namely the Baltic, the Danubian, the alpine and the Adriatic-Ionian with lots of strategies ain terms of environment, energy, transport, the fight against crime and scientific and health research.
Culture
- December 07, 2018
Mediterranean Macroregion, published the decree on the Official Bulletin of the Campania Region
A new step forward in Naples towards the birth of the Mediterranean Macroregion. In the official bulletin of the Campania Region of last 29 ...
Simplifying home staging is the aim of RE.DA: the idea was born from the meeting between Fabiano Gollo, who has been immersed in "cardboard" for two generations thanks to the family box factory, and Elisabetta Rossi, a professional home stager and trainer for home staging. And from November 2018 comes the new website and the start of crowdfunding.
On the stage of FIDEC, Fabiano Gollo, CEO of RE.DA, together with Fabio Guglielmi, CEO of Santandrea Luxury Houses (brand of the Gabetti Group reserved for luxury properties) and Sanja Radovanovich, Director of IAHSP Eurppe - International Association of Home Staging Professionals, the European association that brings together professionals in Home Staging. It was an opportunity to spread the culture of home staging among builders and the importance of marketing in a complex sector such as real estate.
"We have already received a lot of approval among those working in the real estate sector, even if the applications could be further, for example as sets for photographers and for videos or even for temporary shops - declared Fabiano Gollo, CEO of RE.DA. - The potential is extraordinary and in fact there is a lot of interest from potential investors. - This startup is one of the natural evolutions of the family business, a way to update a traditional activity, even if still valid, like the box factory".
For information: www.arredorealistico.com, a website from which you can also join the development group to contribute to new products.
Business
- November 21, 2018
RE.DA. the startup that prints cardboard kitchens identical to the real ones has been presented at FIDEC, the Italian forum of constructions
It was presented at FIDEC - Forum Italiano delle Costruzioni, RE.DA, the innovative startup that uses high-definition digital printing combi...
"In that place, with the participation of all, in the spirit of a participatory democracy, I trust, that unanimously, we can close the first cycle of debates and conferences through which different topics have been addressed. This is what Paolo Pantani, President Emeritus ABC ACLI Cultural Heritage and coordinator of the event, declared.
"We are all now convinced - continues Pantani - that we must overcome a regionalism in crisis and at the same time be on guard against populism that is heading towards a centralization of functions and a nationalization of decisions that does not benefit the country and Europe. With this in mind, we hope to lay the foundations for the second phase aimed at establishing a Mediterranean Macroregion.
Many speakers will take part in the works, illustrating the different themes of reference that will constitute the basis for a strategic project aimed at the development of the Mediterranean Macroregion.
The themes that will be treated will concern: The territorial context, infrastructures, services, institutional aspects, environment, culture, health of peoples and citizens.
The following have ensured their presence: Paolo Pantani - President Emeritus ABC ACLI Cultural Heritage; Rocco Giordano - Transport Economist; Berardo Impegno - Lecturer in Philosophy; Emanuele Raimondo - Researcher in Legal Studies; Beya Ben Abdelbaki Fraoua - Consul General of the Republic of Tunisia; Antonio Cirino Pomicino - Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Morocco; José Luis Solano Gade - Consul General of the Kingdom of Spain; Stanislao Napolano - Medical Director President of the "Carlo Filangieri" Association; Alessandro Citarella - Representative of Meridem; Pasquale Persico - President of the Observatory of Cultural Heritage; Vito Grassi - President of Unindustria Campania; Cristina Fiorenzano - Representative of Basilicata Region; Adriano Giannola - President of SVIMEZ; Roberta Varriale - CNR Institute for Studies on Mediterranean Societies; Ennio Forte - Transport Economist; Renè Georges Maury - Geographer; Giovanni Saccà - Engineer in charge of the Railway Transport Studies Sector CAFI; Pietro Spirito - President of the Port Authority of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea; Cosimo Inferrera President of the promotional committee Macroregione Meridionale Occidentale; Carlo Amirante - Constitutionalist; Francesco de Notaris - Director of the Assise Bulletin; Antonino Aurilio - Medical Director, U.O.S. Director.M.C.O.; Carlo Amirante - Constitutionalist; Francesco de Notaris - Director of the Assise Bulletin; Antonino Aurilio - Medical Director, U.O.S. Director. Basic Medicine District; Francesco Montanaro - Medical Specialist Gastroenterologist President Institute of Atellani Studies; Egidio Montibello - Physician former director of UOC Training and Upgrading ASL NAPLES 2 North; Vincenzo Senatore - Head of Drafting The Money; Sandro Staiano - Constitutionalist; Renato D'Amico - Professor of Political Science; Andrea Piraino - Constitutionalist; Stelio Mangiameli - Director ISSiRFA - CNR; on. Andrea Cozzolino - Eurodeputato - Vice-President of the Commission for Regional Development; on. Paolo Russo - Chamber of Deputies - Vice-President of the Committee for Legislation; on. Giuseppina Castiello - State Secretary to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
Madeinitaly
- November 05, 2018
General Assembly to promote the foundation of a Mediterranean Macroregion
On November 9 starting at nine o'clock, in the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies in Naples (Palazzo Serra di Cassano), the fir...
"This model represents the real paradigm shift, the possibility of governance entrusted to a process that starts from the bottom - explains Paolo Pantani, first director of the Civicrazia Association for the defence of citizens' rights, with the specific mandate for macro-regional policies and the launch of the 5th European macro-region, of the central-western Mediterranean and coordinator of the Naples Forum for the M.M.C.O, MEDITERRANEAN MACREGION CENTER WESTERN CENTER planned for 9 and 10 November 2018. The Head Office of the Central Western Mediterranean Macroregion is Naples and the operational representative office is in Palazzo Francesco Berio in Via Toledo 256.
A meeting was held at the headquarters of the Italian Railway Administrative College (CAFI) in Rome for the launch of the new European driving instrument for the affirmation of the most 'shareable and desirable objectives of territorial cohesion aimed at supporting, promoting and accompanying programs and projects for the development and reduction of disparities' between territories and citizens.
The meeting was attended by Giovanni Sacca', head of the Studies Department of CAFI, Paolo Pantani, director of Civicrazia, an expression of the healthy and committed civil society, and coordinator of the promoting committee of the Central Western Mediterranean Macroregion, Gianpaolo Basile, collaborator of Europarliamentary Andrea Cozzolino, Cristina Florenzano, delegate of the Basilicata Region, Stanislao Napolano, member of the promoting committee and journalists Carmelo Cutuli and Nicola Rivieccio.
"The Macroregion - promoters have emphasized - represents the chance to seize the historical opportunity. At a time when the European Union is experiencing a moment of great democratic uncertainty, the great opportunity of Macro-regional policies has arisen. Four of them are already operating (the Baltic, the Danube, the Ionian-Adriatic and the Alpine). They were created to encourage countries to commit themselves with their own funds.
The new macro-regional participatory body is therefore at this time the most advanced instrument of the European Union with which to fill the democratic gap in a Europe now at the mercy of multinationals."
Business
- October 24, 2018
The Macroregion model represents a real paradigm shift in participatory democracy. Paolo Pantani says
A new stage has been reached in the progress towards the constituent assembly and the operational start of the Mediterranean Macroregion, an...
