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Someone asked me, quite rightly: what we got to do with Marseille and Barcelona?
European Union and this is good or bad for Sicily and Southern Italy?
What is the so-called EURO-MEDITERRANEAN FREE TRADE AREA?
And then, eternally remains unresolved because the century-old problem otherwise defined: SOUTHERN QUESTION?
While we celebrate the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Unification of Italy, pile up in our minds the memories of the first major survey on the conditions of the South, led by Franchetti and Sonnino and all studies, surveys and research that until today have had the effect that all those who know very well.
Now what?
To answer these important questions?
Meanwhile there is a north wind blows strongly and bloody disgrace South
We refer also, if you will, to the humiliating story of the so-called cages wage entirely unjustified, given the high costs that we pay every day in the South, especially in terms of high and intolerable levels of unemployment, but also non-existent or inefficient public services and dear.
You can not silence the emblematic history of water and thirst, but also amnesia with regard to public transport, or the scandalous stories about the fetid gangrene, even in the true sense of the word, formed by the mismanagement of the waste cycle and abnormal costs for the community they represent.
The recent fall in prices of agricultural products, tourism and a sluggish, bureaucratic disputes and litigation burdens on a sector that seems to know no crisis, as renewable energy, solar, wind and biomass, for be clear, I have led, or rather, it led us to organize the two days of discussions with some of the most significant and influential establishment figures, scholars, experts and representatives-strict in the business world in terms of economic development and beyond.
When the Hon. Unless Raiti we thought these meetings are essential, while we were on the slopes of Etna, in its Lingfield, we intended only to set in motion qulache mechanism jammed, more in my on its territory.
I refer to the need to rethink some concreteness to a renewed through an 'act of territorial government, in concert with all stakeholders and recipients of a possible turning point socio-economic reality in the depressed who want to come out out of the shoals of a victim of Old South array.
few years ago, someone claimed that Sicily was in my heart!
Today we say that sailing in the open sea, without compass and without the proper coordinates, it can definitely cause us to lose all sense of direction and move towards an irreversible drift without hope and without return.
our land of Sicily, he needs to continue to hope that they can return to the frequent stimulation really useful, not only financial and political, but also ideals, together with the passion and love for what we are and for all beautiful and majestic beauty that we have inherited, combining it all with an optimistic logic of collective self-esteem.
From these premises, we Starting with renewed momentum.
The way we want to give our valued within these sites as part of that context Sciascia who was honored by the presence of the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, on the occasion of the death of the writer Venntennale Racalmuto which falls this year. endless thanks to you all, distinguished speakers and guests, for your welcome presence in the country of Sciascia, who, if he were here among us, surely appreciate our efforts, our desires, to help build a Sicily and South different and better, as would any of my closest friends.
And I believe that among these there are a lot of friends, as well as some nice relative and also a loving my former classmate.
Sorry if I let go also to some hint of nostalgia, but hopefully understandable affection for all of you.
assume that we want to celebrate our desire for redemption, our attachment to the values \u200b\u200bof the harmonic growth of a region, a State of Europe, in its natural relationship not only with all the countries bordering Mare Nostrum, the Mediterranean, but also with the Middle East and Asia that represent new challenges and new frontiers, to be reckoned with, for better or male.Salvatore Petrottosindaco Racalmutopresidente of the Foundation's 'Leonardo Sciascia'
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