(ANSA) - UDINE, OCTOBER 15 - Diplomatic and institutional representatives from fourteen Central and Eastern European and Balkan countries, including Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, and Macedonia, will participate in the 15th Forum of the Aquileia Euroregion, "1989-2019 The Awakening of the Mitteleuropa. Nostalgia for the Future", organized by the Mitteleuropa association, and scheduled for October 18 Udine. "A Cernobbio-style meeting of Mitteleuropa in Friuli on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the foundation of the CEI, the Central European Initiative", explained the president of the Mitteleuropa association Paolo Petiziol, consul of the Czech Republic, a long-term diplomat. Among the speakers expected in Udine are Ambassador Itzko Mirosic, special envoy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia, Ferenc Kalmar, responsible for relations with the neighboring countries of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Josef Miklosko, former deputy minister of Czechoslovakia, ambassador of the Slovak Republic in Rome and then a member of the Slovak parliament. Focus on 2019, "which confirms a year of significant changes throughout Europe, an increasingly fragmented continent," added Petiziol. The presentation of the 15th Forum was attended by the Regional Councilor for Culture of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Tiziana Gibelli, and the president of the Friuli Foundation, Giuseppe Morandini. "The Mitteleuropa Forum is undoubtedly the most important event of the year in the region in terms of international relationships - councilor Gibelli underlined - and the focus on nostalgia for the future is very interesting. There are those who, like me, still believe in the European Union, but realize that things cannot go on like this. I have many doubts that the EU can be changed with a markedly nationalistic attitude: it is in comparison, even harsh, that one can understand in which direction to go". (ANSA).