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ITALY ID

NAME: ITALIAN REPUBLIC ( IT)POPULATION: 60.782.668 inhabitants DENSITY : 201 inhabitants /km²AREA: 302.072,84 km²LANGUAGE: Italian-( French-German- Ladin-

Slovenian)RELIGION: No official religionFORM OF GOVERNMENT: Parliamentary RepublicLAW: Constitution of the Italian RepublicNATIONAL ANTHEM: Il Canto degli italianiNATIONAL DAY : the 2nd of June REGIONS : 20 ( 15 + 5 with special Authonomy)MUNICIPALITIES: 8.047CAPITAL : Rome (2.863.322 inhabitants ) PHONE CODE: +39 CURRENCY : EURO 1 January 2002

ITALIAN REPUBLIC

The Member of the Vatican City and

San Marino are enclaves of the Republic.

The Italian Constitution from the 1st January 1948, is the fundamental law and founding of the Italian State.

The sovereign People elects

Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of Republic elect

PRESIDENT elects

Government and Ministers

The Constitutional Court

The Judiciary (indipendent organism )

The Highest Offices of Italian State

President of Italian Republic SERGIO MATTARELLA

President of the Senate PIETRO GRASSO

President of the Chamber of Deputies LAURA BOLDRINI

President of the Council of Ministers MATTEO RENZI

President of the Constitutional Court ALESSANDRO CRISCUOLO

Italian State in the world scene

• It is a founding member of the European Union• It is a founding member of NATO • The eighth-largest economy and fourth at the European level,• The Council of Europe and the OECD; • It adheres to the UN and to the Schengen Treaty.• It is also a member of the G7, G8 and G20,• It participates in the project of NATO nuclear sharing• It is a major regional power European able to exert political influence on choices

and decisions to order extra-European and international level • It ranks ninth in the world for military spending. • Italy has the largest number of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO and is the fifth

most visited Country in the world.

Western HISTORY born in Italy!

• Italy has a history of the richest and oldest in the world. Closely related to Western culture and the history of Europe, but also to the civilization of the Mediterranean basin, has lived the major historical events of the Western world.

• Italy has inherited ancient cultures such as those of Shardana , the Etruscans or the Latins, was the place of origin of Greek and Carthaginian colonies.

You can see the high number of

Greek site in Sicily only!

The magnitude of the Roman Empire

• We can’t talk about Roman Empire because it would talk about the vast history of the West, because is the root of the greatest European cultures of today.

• The Roman Empire has represented the “History for excellence”, the crib of the Right and of Laws, an example of great culture , perfection, elegance, refinement of a social and military organization that arouses astonishment and admiration still .

The Barbarian Invasions

• After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, medieval Italy was subject to invasion and domination by Germanic peoples, such as the Goths, the Lombards and the Normans that plundered the wonders of Roman civilization, bringing the civilization clock back in time.

The Middle Ages and the Papacy• During the Middle Ages Italy remains fragmented

into a mosaic of city-states that fought each other for hegemony over the rest of the Mediterranean basin, with the frequent interventions of the surrounding powers and the Catholic Church. Its geographical location has made yes that became the key to European trade and this has encouraged the Maritime Republics such as Amalfi, Pisa, Genoa and Venice. The spiritual power of the Pope, which had its headquarters in Rome, Italy in particular has had repercussions on many events.

The Maritime Republics

The Renaissance

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This heritage of political importance meant to draw in home power struggles between the rulers of Europe. In addition, the cultural heritage classic and ecclesial was the breeding ground for new trends. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Italy has become the cultural center of Europe, giving rise to the Renaissance. At the same time, has become one of the battlefields in Europe, undergoing the hegemony of various powers including the Spanish Empire.

The heritage of the Renaissance

• The Renaissance was an Italian phenomenon which made school in Europe on all fields of life: speculative, literary, artistic, scientific, economic, town planning , associative, the first bank and the first University.

• The genes of Giotto, Piero Della Francesca, Leonardo, Raffaello, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Galileo Galilei, Botticelli, Bellini, Antonello da Messina, Caravaggio,…an endless list of people that with their ingenuity have marked the path of future civil societies.

• Today Italy remains an “open-air museum” of the most beautiful in the world still; although it was robbed and continues to be robbed by the illegal trade in works of art.

From the sixteenth century till today

• After the Italian wars of the sixteenth century fell under the hegemony of foreign powers such as France, Spain and Austria.

• During the Risorgimento fought for independence and for the unit until in 1861 it was proclaimed the Kingdom of Italy under Savoia Family, which lasted until 1946.

• Italy took part to the World War I.• After the Fascist period and the defeat in World War II,

following a plebiscite the Italian State became a Republic.

TODAY• Certainly today continuing to build Italy with the requirements

that the EU is asking to us is not easy! • Many challenges are still waiting for answers:• The spread crisis in Europe of : economy , European systems,

international policy.• Youth employment through a new impetus to scientific research

and the promotion of Italian tourist and environmental vocation.• A review of policy and organizational having a bureaucratic

approach more efficient.• The gap exists between North and South still , in terms of

infrastructure and welfare• The fight against corruption, organized crime ...• New intercultural challenges…

Europe challenges

• European Countries , now elderly average age, to maintain still their privileges and conveniences need of new ,fresh ,young human capital with strong arms.

• While UE argues about its capitalism, on the specter of terrorism, ignores their responsibilities on the destiny of the global world ( consumerism, coltan mines for ITC, energies founts :-water- food- oil - metals- methan…) feeding conflicts.

• Even today, East and North Africa gripped by poverty, hunger and lack of human rights …look to Europe.

• Europe's borders are no longer boundaries but roads for freedom, walls to split against indifference,last solution to survival.

SICILY…LAMPEDUSA : the first frontiers towards Europe!

…The relatively short distance to Lampedusa encourages more people to risk the journey. Many thousands of people risk their lives , fleeing conflict and instability in Africa and the Middle East, in small, often decrepit vessels in an attempt to reach European territories.

SYRIA

ERITREA

EGYPT

NIGERIA

PAKISTAN

SOMALIA

GAMBIA

MALI

AFGANISTAN

SENEGAL

SUDAN

EXDODUS

• The departure is just the continuation of a long list of tragedies : abuses, violence, rapes, exploitation, rejections, dead…that accompany a long exodus crossing the routes of African deserts ... that often crashing a few meters from the Sicilian coast. This human trafficking is a lucrative business for crime.

• It is the law of the market: demand and supply! That part of desperate people who will have the luck to arrive safe and sound will not stay in Italy only, but in many continue their trip towards Germany, Uk, France, Scandinavia …

MEDITERRANEAN SEA … sicily coastsvast CEMETERY of nameless graves!

More of 500 immigrants per DAY !

• From 2000 to 2013 have died more than 23 000 migrants trying to reach Europe : 50 per cent more than it appears from the existing estimates.• According to estimates of this month and

waiting for favorable sea conditions 500,000 refugees are ready to go from Libya only!

THANKS LAMPEDUSA !• We could talk and discuss about this issue that is increasing dramatically searching

culprits or solutions.• But one thing is certain: the very small island of Lampedusa and its people, Sicily, the

Italian Coast Guard, aid organizations, fishing boats ,common people… at the moment are the only lifeline for illegal migrants.

• You can not describe what an enormous and painful load Lampedusa must face , how much human compassion and help civil society can express during these tragedies without asking questions about : race, origin, religion, age,condition, job…

• LAMPEDUSA feels ALONE and forgotten however .• LAMPEDUSA CAN’T SAY “ IT ISN’T MY AFFAIR! “

EUROPE !!!REPLY PLEASE…

EMERGENCY

FOREIGNER!

• It is a problem that is having a strong impact on the Italian system that currently is weak economically

• Racism, suspicion, quality accommodation ,hunting the clandestine ( that man who commits Italian finances !!)are topics from electoral propaganda of extremist and xenophobic groups.

• It isn’t a problem that affects Italy only but all Europe from which we expect support and resources still.

Many problems , many ideas, many proposals for a New UE…

but…everything must always take account of HUMAN DIGNITY !

• Expo Milano 2015 is the Universal Exhibition that Italy will host from May 1 to October 31, 2015 and will be the biggest organized Event on Nutrition. For six months, Milan will become a global showcase in which Countries will show the best of their technologies to give a concrete answer to a vital need: being able to provide healthy food, safe and sufficient for all peoples, in respect for the planet and its equilibria. An exhibition area of 1.1 million square meters more than 140 countries and international organizations will be involved .

IT’S AN ITALIAN PROPOSAL TO FIGHT HUNGER IN OUR NEAR AND FAR WORLD !

WE HOPE AND WANT TO BELIEVE IT : A SMALL STEP FOR A NEW INTEGRAL HUMANISM , A NEW RENAISSANCE…