BELIEVE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN COMMUNITY
Seeing and reflecting ourselves in the Mediterranean people is an identity not to despise, a social vision, a political issue which goes over world daily talks.
The social and co-operative Mediterranean vision is a new way of sight, unequalled, where we understand that the different realities belonging to the Mediterranean Sea countries can be taken back to a single identity.
Let’s think about European Community in the fifties: in 1954 there took place the first European Community Constitution, the first Confederation of European United States. At that time few European States convinced themselves that join forces together could be the winning strategy, the real strength to lead the future of many generations.
What about the Mediterranean area? What the Mediterranean Sea is going to be in 2050 and in 2080? Can we believe - like some politics believed in 1950 regarding the European Union - in a Mediterranean Community, in a group of Mediterranean countries able to overcome all the problems and able to live in a Community such as the European one? Do we really believe it? Have we to believe it or we want to believe it?
Many thanks to AMCM as the spokesperson of this new community which could rise. It would be necessary 10, 100, 1000 AMCM associations to help everybody believe in the Mediterranean Community.


Ben Steinberg
Mediterranean Institute for Social Development
Luxembourg

Gore speaks on environment in Italy
Al Gore said Thursday that he hoped to push the environmental agenda to the forefront of the 2008 U.S. presidential election — but probably not as a candidate.
"I don't plan to be a candidate again. I haven't completely ruled out that possibility, but I don't expect to be a candidate," Gore told several hundred people, including scientists and university students, at a Benetton-sponsored event organized around an environmental exhibit.
Gore said the political will is lacking to make the kind of commitments needed to combat global warming — and that climate awareness needs to be spread on the popular level to put pressure on policy makers.