Mattarella in Florence: ‘Expo will give the country new knowledge’ – BBC

Towards the Universal Exhibition

Milan , March 29, 2015 – 8:53

     
     
 

” It’s the whole Italian looking at the Expo. ” At 34 days after the inauguration of the Milan event, the president Sergio Mattarella concludes in Florence two days of work in preparation of the Charter Milan, cultural heritage of the event: “The result will be positive – says forcing compared to written speech where there was an “if” – and to take advantage of it will be the capital of the country, collective good that will come out enriched not only in size but in that infrastructure, more importantly, the creation of knowledge. ” To President Mattarella mostly affects the theme of Expo, Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life “fruitful opportunity to redefine options on materials such as soils and their use, the water, the ecological balance, research and international trade. ” Issues on which Italy itself as the center of an international debate that will hinge, in fact, in the Charter Milan: the document that will be presented on April 28 on the issues of the right to food, sustainability, the fight against waste and which will be submitted to the signature of those who come to visit the Expo, institutions, companies, civil society and that, in October, will be presented to the UN. Mattarella sees the Expo as “an effective vehicle of cultural development and promotion of education” and it is the message of this two days. Beyond the issues of delays in the pipeline (“But are peaceful and we’ll make it,”

insists Commissioner Joseph Hall), in Florence is playing the card of the involvement of great personalities. Here then Emma Bonino, who believed the Expo since 2007, which emphasizes the role of women, and hopes that its Women for Expo remains even for editions of ASTONA 2017 and Dubai 2020. Here Romano Prodi, who as prime minister had wanted Milan’s candidacy, a lecture on the politics of food (“You have to bring resources to research in our universities and in our institutions, agricultural research is Cinderella in our system, which is already in the system of global research Cinderella”). Here Italian entrepreneurs in wines, well-known faces such as those of Carlo Cracco and Lidia Bastianich, the lesson of Piero Angela on the waste water, here is the procession of ministers. And here are the video messages of Ban Ki Moon and the Nobel Prize Aung San Su Kyi. All cheering for Expo. That, as guarantees Minister Maurizio Martina, director of the Florentine event, “will be the turning point that the country is waiting.”

March 29, 2015 | 08:53

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