(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).
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