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Cenacles


1st Cenacle
2 March 1992

“FEDERAL STATE: AN ANSWER TO THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF THE NEW EUROPE”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speaker: Prof. Claudio Grua, Professor of Business Economics, Faculty of Political Science, University of Turin.

Coordinator: Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: East Sesia Hall Consortium of Integral Reclamation - Novara.

Liliana Besta Battaglia, Walter Codini, Grua


2nd Cenacle
29 April 1993

“WORKING IN EUROPE”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speakers: Eng. G. Spagnolini, European Multinational Logistics Director;

Ing. R. Van Lighten, Managing Director Unikellere Europe

Coordinator: Eng. Valter Codini.

Cenacle Venue: East Sesia Conference Room Integrated Land Reclamation Consortium-Novara.

Van Lighten, Spagnolini, Liliana Besta Battaglia

3rd Cenacle
20 May 1993

"RELATIONS BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND EASTERN EUROPE: FEDERAL PERSPECTIVES AND ETHNIC NATIONALISMS"

Source: Courier of Novara

Speaker: Prof. Lucio Levi, Professor of Comparative Political Institutions.

Coordinator: Prof. Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

Tosi Ugliotti, Levi, Liliana Besta Battaglia


4th Cenacle
31 May 1993

“TECHNOLOGY PARKS AND TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speakers: Dr. Bruno Bottiglieri, Eng. Valter Codini.

Moderators: Prof. Liliana Besta Battaglia, Franco Traina.

Collaboration: Novara Europa and Club Donegani.

Conference Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

Liliana Besta Battaglia, Bruno Bottiglieri, Tralna, Walter Codini


5th Cenacle
22 November 1993

“ROLE OF CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE THE ENGLISH EXPERIENCE IN EUROPE”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speaker: Mr. David Griffiths, Director National Westminster Bank and Member of the British Chamber of Commerce, Milan.

Coordinator: Inge Knudsen.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

David Griffiths


6th Cenacle
December 21, 1993

“THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF UNITED EUROPE PAST AND PRESENT”

Source : The North

Sacred Heart Constituency Council.

Speaker: Prof. Liliana Besta Battaglia.


7th Cenacle
3 February 1994

“UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE: STRUCTURAL OR CYCLICAL PHENOMENON ?”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speaker: Dr. Alfonso Jozzo, co-director general of the S. Paolo Group of Turin.

Coordinator: Prof. Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia Novara.

Alfonso Jozzo


8th Cenacle
23 May 1994

“THE EUROPEAN PROPOSAL FOR A NEW DEVELOPMENT MODEL: THE DELORS PLAN”

Source: Courier of Novara

Rapporteur: Prof. Alberto Maiocchi, Professor of Finance Science, Faculty of Economics, University of Pavia.

Presentation by Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

Alberto Maiocchi with Liliana Besta


9th Cenacle
10 October 1994

"GETTING TO KNOW HOLLAND: ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL REALITY OF A COUNTRY WELL INTEGRATED INTO THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY EUROPEAN COMMUNITY"

Source: Courier of Novara

Speakers: Mr. Klaass Huisman, Consul of the Netherlands;

Robert Van Leighten, Unikellere Europe;

Mrs. Boschini, Dutch Tourist Office.

Coordinator: Eng. Valter Codini.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

10th Cenacle
1 June 1995

“THE EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL CHALLENGE OF A QUALITY NOVARA COMPANY: MEMC”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speakers: Dr. Franco Leoni, Dr. Carlo Amicarelli, Dr. Gian Luigi Noia,

Dr. Gianfranco Severina.

Moderator: Eng. Valter Codini.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

Besta Battaglia, Amicarelli, Leoni, Noia


11th Cenacle
27 November 1995

"GETTING TO KNOW IRELAND:

THE EXPERIENCE OF AN ITALIAN VISITING PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CORK”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speaker: Prof. Claudio Grua, Professor of Business Economics, Faculty of Political Science, University of Turin.

Moderator: Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

Claudio Grua

The public at Italia


12th Cenacle
8 February 1996

"BIRTH OF EUROPE. THE CULTURAL JOURNEY OF EUROPEAN PEOPLES FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT"

Source: Courier of Novara

Speaker: Prof. Giancarlo Antenna, professor of medieval history.

Moderator. Prof. Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.


13th Cenacle

"EUROPE AT THE CROSSROADS.

THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONFERENCE AND THE FUTURE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION."

Speaker: Prof. Antonio Padoa Schioppa, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Milan.

Coordinator: Prof. Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.


14th Cenacle
28 March 1996

"INFORMATION IN EUROPE. MASS MEDIA IN COMPARISON."

Source: Courier of Novara

Speaker: Dr. Gianni Locatelli, former “Sole 24 Ore” Director, former RAI General Manager.

Coordinator: Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

Gianni Locatelli


15th Cenacle
6 June 1996

“THE EUROPEAN UNION FOR EMPLOYMENT AND DEVELOPMENT.”

Source: Piedmont Europe:

Speaker: Prof. Guido Montani, MFE National Secretary, Professor of International Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Pavia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.


16th Cenacle

“A EUROPEAN PIEDMONTESE: LUIGI EINAUDI THE FEDERAL CHOICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE”

Speaker: Prof. Umberto Morelli, A.E.D.E. Regional Secretary and Professor of History of International Relations, University of Turin.

Coordinator: Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.


17th Cenacle
3 March 1997

“FROM MONNET'S GRADUALISM TO DE GASPERI'S FEDERALISM”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speaker: Prof. Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Moderator: Dr. Davide Ugliotti.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

Liliana Besta Battaglia


18th Cenacle

“DENMARK AND EUROPE: EVERYDAY LIFE AND DANISH CULTURE”

Speakers: Erik Kruse. Consul of Denmark, Milan, Mrs. Inge Knudsen.

Moderator: Eng. Valter Codini.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.


19th Cenacle
19 May 1997

“EURO 1999: ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE WORLD”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speaker: Prof. Gianni Vigo, Professor of Economic History, Faculty of Economics, University of Pavia.

Moderator: Prof. Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

Gianni Vigo


20th Cenacle
26 September 1997

"REAL FEDERALISM: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE SWISS FEDERATION"

Source: Courier of Novara

Speakers: Prof. Remigio Ratti, Member of the Swiss Parliament and Professor of Economie Régionale et des Transports, University of Fribourg, Dr. Giovanni Flury, Director Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft, Lugano.

Moderator: Eng. Valter Codini.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.


21st Cenacle
26 February 1998

“THE EUROPEAN CITY OF THE FUTURE”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speaker: Dr. Marcello Antinucci, President Conphebus Research Center Enel Catania

Speaker: Eng. Giuseppe Frego

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.


22nd Cenacle
April 23, 1998

"THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE: THE POLITICAL PROJECT OF CARLO CATTANEO, THE FATHER OF FEDERALISM ITALIAN FEDERALISM"

Source: Courier of Novara

Speaker: Dr. Giuseppe Armani, former Supreme Court Judge and Member of the Italian-Swiss Committee for Studies on Carlo Cattaneo.

Moderator: Prof. Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.


23rd Cenacle
4 June 1998

“THE NEW ERA OF THE EURO: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS IN EUROPE AND THE WORLD”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speaker: Dr. Carlo Galimberti, Member of the ABI Committee for the Euro and Lecturer in Economic Master Courses, University of Studies of Pavia.

Moderator: Prof. Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

Liliana Besta Battaglia, Carlo Galimberti


24th Cenacle
26 October 1998

"NOVARIA 2000:

A PROJECT FOR THE BALANCED AND COMPATIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NOVARA REGION”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speakers: Dr. Fabrizio Leoni, European Marketing Director M.EM.C. Electronics Materials S.p.a. and President Centro Studi Novaria 2000 Valter Codini, President of Consorzio Novara Europa Formazione and Director of the Novaria 2000 Study Centre. Novaria 2000.

Conference Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

 

The Alcoa headquarters in Via Bovio


25th Cenacle
March 1999

“FROM THE EURO TO THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION”

Source: Piedmont Europe

Speaker: notary public, Dr. Francesco Rossolillo, MFE

Moderator: Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia


26th Cenacle
19 March 1999

“WHICH UNIVERSITY FOR NOVARA”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speakers: Prof. Ilario Viano, Magnificent Rector of the University of Eastern Piedmont “Amedeo Avogadro”, Prof. Cesare Emanuel, Professor of Territorial Organisation and Planning, Faculty of Economics, University of University of Eastern Piedmont “Amedeo Avogadro”

Moderator: Eng. Valter Codini.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

Valter Codini, Liliana Besta Battaglia, Ilario Viano, Cesare Emanuel

Part of the large audience gathered at the meeting


27th Cenacle
May 1999

"NOVARA LOMBARDA? THE ROLE OF NOVARA IN LOMBARDY, ALREADY A LEADING REGION IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMY IN THE XII AND XIII CENTURIES”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speaker: Prof. Giancarlo Andenna, Professor of Medieval History, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

Giancarlo Andenna


28th Cenacle
17 June 1999

“EUROPE-HUNGARY-HUNGARIANS.”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speakers: Prof. Gabor Vargha, Hungarian Consul in Milan;

Presentation by Eng. Tamás Szodfridt.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

Gabor Vargha, Liliana Besta Battaglia, Tamàs Szodfridt


29th Cenacle

“EUROPEANISM AND FEDERALISM IN PIEDMONT.”

Speaker: Prof. Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Coordinator: Davide Ugliotti.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.


30th Cenacle

“EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY WORK: TESTIMONY OF A NOVARESE IN BOSNIA”

Speaker: Eng. Luca Palagi, volunteer in Bosnia.

Coordinator: Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.


31st Cenacle
6 April 2000

"THE VALUES OF EUROPEAN UNIFICATION AND THE NEW NATIONALISMS: THE AUSTRIAN CASE AND FEARS OF EUROPE"

Source: Courier of Novara

In collaboration with the Regional Centre of the European Federalist Movement of Piedmont, the Association Novara Europa, the Association Europèenne des Enseignants.

Speakers: Prof. Claudio Grua and Sergio Pistone.

Conference Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara (Mirror Room).

32nd Cenacle
November 20, 2000

"EUROPE BEYOND THE EURO.

HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR THE NICE CONFERENCE”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speaker: Dr. Alfonso Jozzo, National President of the European Federalist Movement.

Moderator: Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

What are the reasons for an in-depth debate? The topicality and reality demand it of what is at stake in the upcoming Intergovernmental Conference in Nice (December 7, 2000). There the choice of our future as European citizens. At stake will be the ability of the UnionEuropean Union to give itself a federal government: to conduct development and employment policies, to promote world peace, to address in political and social security and economic order the great challenge of enlargement to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and Malta. “This is therefore not the time of pauses but of courageous and far-reaching ones...” Charles Azeglio Ciampi Leipzig, July 6, 2000


33rd Cenacle
March 2001

"THE EUROPE OF COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT. THE ROLE OF NOVARA IN EUROPEAN PROJECTS, TEN AND TRANSALP"

Speaker: Eng. Giuseppe Frego, president of C.I.M. (Intermodal Freight Center).

Moderator: Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.


34th Cenacle
4 June 2001

'“BIOTECHNOLOGY IN EUROPE. RESEARCH AND PROBLEMS IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL, MEDICAL AND INDUSTRIAL SECTORS”

Source: Courier of Novara

Speaker: Prof. Giovanni Gaudino, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Chemistry and Mathematics, University of Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro.

Moderator: Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

 

Giovanni Gaudino


35th Cenacle

“EASTERN EUROPE: POLAND AND ITS ECONOMIC REALITY”

Speakers: Dr. Jerzy Cieslik, Consul of the Republic of Poland in Milan, Eng.

Coordinator: Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.


36th Cenacle
26 October 2001

"EUROPE AND THE ENVIRONMENT. HOW TO MEET THE CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE?"

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: Eng. Vittorio Regis, Environmental Policy Expert at the European Commission.

Coordinator: Liliana Besta Battaglia.

Cenacle Venue: Albergo Italia - Novara.

Vittorio Regis


37th Cenacle:
March 2, 2001

“THE EUROPE OF COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT”

Speaker: Eng. Giuseppe Frego
President CIM S.p.A.
Intermodal Freight Center

What are the reasons for an in-depth discussion? The need to know how the modern Economy induces companies to build advanced advanced logistics. The future of industry-railroad relations will also play a new role for the development of the Novara “logistics node” in the planning and implementation of the “Trans European Network” and “Transalp,” that is, rapid transportation between Novara, the Alpine tunnels and Central Europe. The future occasion of the 2006 Olympics urges everyone, especially our territory, to be in the forefront.

Giuseppe Frego


38th Cenacle:
23 November 2001

“NOVARA EUROPA: THE CELEBRATION OF THE FIRST 10 YEARS”
Review from Novara Europa

Celebrations for the ten years of commitment of many Friends, analysis of the objectives and the ten-year activities carried out.

Here are some reports from the long succession of events that took place from 1991 to 2001.

Born: February 1991

Headquarters: at British Institute Reasons:

  • information and cultural exchanges with the Community and European countries;

  • training for Young People through the creation of an ad hoc Consortium of Companies;

  • initiatives for research and development of the Novara Territory;

  • bimonthly/quarterly meetings called “Cenacles” with renowned Italian and European Speakers.

Total number of meetings: 37

Presidents:

  • Giuseppe Frego – 1991

  • Valter Codini – 1992

  • Liliana Besta Battaglia - Currently in office.

    G. Frego

    V. Codini

    L. Besta Battaglia


39th Cenacle
March 1, 2002

“NEW PERSPECTIVES OF EUROPEAN UNIFICATION AFTER LAEKEN - CONVENTION AND CONSTITUTION AT LAST?”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: LUIGI VITTORIO MAJOCCHI - Professor of History of Europe

Western Faculty of Political Science University of Pavia Jean Monnet Chair. Author of numerous publications on the history of pre- and post-unification Europe

European elections, European currency: are the two realities of the last two decades about to be completed by a Constitution and thus a true European government?

This is the great expectation of the most convinced pro-Europeans amid the disinterest of the Eurosceptics.

At Laeken, a breach was made in that overly intergovernmental Europe in which we have been flattened.

But the challenges of world politics, made dramatic by last September's terrorist act, no longer leave room for hesitation, compromise intergovernmental and small-step diplomacy.

The most immediate alternative?

“Federate or perish.”

L. V. Majocchi  


40th Cenacle

April 5, 2002

“TERRITORIES AND ENTERPRISES IN GLOBALIZATION - THE IMPACT ON THE EUROPEAN REALITY”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: CESARE EMANUEL - Dean of the Faculty of Economics, University of Eastern Piedmont and GIOVANNI FRAQUELLI - Professor of Economics and Business Management Faculty of Economics University of Eastern Piedmont

In the increasingly accelerated Development of “globalization” we are witnessing the emergence of two worrisome phenomena:

  • the impact on Enterprises with consequent pressing work of reorganization and development of new organizational models and the strategies that allow them to survive and compete;

  • the address on affected territories and countries with consequences on the inhabitants both in an economic and cultural sense with disruptive effects on the fragmentation of territory and local and cultural identity.

C. Emanuel

 


41st Cenacle

Oct. 18, 2002

“EUROPEAN UNION REGIONAL POLICIES AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT?”

Review from Novara Europa

Speakers: MAURIZIO CAPELLI - Responsible for Italy of the “Bureau d'Assistance Technique” and ROBERTO TOGNETTI Architect spatial planning

Topic unknown to many and masterfully expounded by the Speakers: 21st Century Europe: with reasons for serious research and appropriate information.

Briefly examined:

  • regional development policies in cohesion with the European Union

  • local development as a method of affirming the identity and diversity of Europe's territories through common experiences and tools

  • the “open issues” of regional development resulting in a panorama of “lagging” and “strong” regions

  • the new problems brought about by the enlargement to Eastern European countries

  • the new challenges and opportunities for the Novara Territory.

R. Tognetti

 


42nd Cenacle

Feb. 21, 2003

“NOVARA MEDICAL RESEARCH AIMED AT REALIZING A EUROPEAN POLE OF EXCELLENCE - I.R.C.A.D. CENTER ON AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: UMBERTO DIANZANI - President of the Center for Research

Interdisciplinary Research Center on Invalidating Autoimmune Diseases (I.R.C.A.D.).

In 21st Century Europe, the commitment to the protection of the citizen's Health is once again reaffirmed in the Draft of the European Constitution, Title III Art. 2-35 which states:

“Everyone has the right to be accorded a high level of health protection for which the Union's fullest common resources and actions are to be engaged.”.

Here, in harmony with the European Directives, is the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Invalidating Autoimmune Diseases, active at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Eastern Piedmont “A. Avogadro” in Novara, worthy of our attention and all Our support.


43rd Cenacle

October 17, 2003

“THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION - THE ITALIAN SEMESTER AND THE MOMENT OF CHOICE”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: LUISA TRUMELLINI - Secretary of the Pavia Section of the European Federalist Movement, Co-editor of the magazine “European Alternative” published in Pavia for the entire national territory

Preamble of the European Constitution: A well-commented fundamental introduction

““Our Constitution is called a democracy because power is not in the hands of the few, but of the many.””.

Thucydides (Historiae II, 37)

Introductory statement complemented by a reflection by a great pro-European:

“The Union of Europe cannot be founded simply on the good will of a few. It needs well-constructed Rules and Institutions that will pass on our wisdom to future generations.”

From a centuries-old custom of managing European politics in a personalistic, top-down form, to a new choice meditated upon and realized in common and secured by an Institutional structure agreed upon in peace.

L. Trumellini


44th Cenacle

Nov. 14, 2003

“JAPAN: A FADING MYTH, EUROPE INADEQUATE, CHINA ON THE RISE - EXPERIENCES OF AN ITALIAN GENERAL MANAGER IN ASIA”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: RAFFAELE POLESINANTI - Past general manager of Mitsui Group Ansaldo - ABB

Japan: in this country of enthralling charm, the looming of a sad reality kept too long hidden?

This is the question that the knowledgeable speaker answered.

Comprehensive and convincing was the analysis of the period from the 1970s - 2000s that he spent first as an Executive in a Japanese Group in Italy then as an official in Tokyo and at different times, in China.

The comparison between a Europe not yet competitive, a Japan in crisis and a China set to impose itself on the world with resources and work forces is permanently worrying

R. Polesinanti


45th Cenacle

Feb. 6, 2004

“GLOBAL, LOCAL OR GLOCAL?”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: PIERO BASSETTI - Former textile entrepreneur, Former President of the Lombardy Region, Former Member of the Italian Parliament, President of the International Association Globus et Locus

Faced with the process of globalization economic and social, environmental and communicative, the West faces the problem of also safeguarding local identity and well-being, which seem unable to withstand the challenge of the new competition.

What policy innovations and new rules may be needed to govern such a phenomenon?

What is the role of Europe?

The speaker argues for a strong push for innovation that does not, however, negate local values.

P. Bassetti


46th Cenacle

May 14, 2004

“WHAT INSTITUTIONS FOR THE ENLARGED EUROPE?”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: ANTONIO PADOA SCHIOPPA Professor of History of Italian Law Faculty of Law, University of Milan - Gold Medal for the University (Presidency of the Republic) as “Well-deserving of Science and Culture”

May 2004: a new great united moment of peace.

At such a painful juncture of wars and international violence, useless Summits, Directors and Alliances aimed at pursuing special interests should sunset.

Right, instead, is the resumption of the diplomatic initiative to approve, soon, a Constitution that will give Europe democratic and capable institutions.

This is the need for which the “spirit of solidarity” is to be institutionalized, as per Article 42 of the Draft Constitution.

Even the Declaration of the most recent European Council explicitly reiterates that a Constitutional Charter containing the rules of a Union based on a European democratic reality determined to be a Community of destiny and profound values is absolutely necessary.

A. Padoa-Schioppa


47th Cenacle

November 12, 2004

“DISASTER MEDICINE: A NECESSARY SPECIALTY OR A DIALECTICAL EXERCISE? - EUROPE'S COMMITMENT.”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: FRANCESCO DELLA CORTE Associate Professor of Anesthesiology - University of Eastern Piedmont and Secretary of “European Society for Emergengy Medicine”

Wider Europe in the face of natural or man-made disasters initiated to joint emergency management.

Novara is also engaged in the Leonardo da Vinci Program funded by the European Commission.

Co-actors with other European Organizations in two Pilot Projects:

The Enterprise Community School Consortium, founded by the Novara Europa Association, the Municipality of Novara, and the University of Eastern Piedmont: Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgery and Computer Science of the Faculty of M.F.N. Sciences.

From the Speaker presented the projects being carried out:

  • e-DISTRICT CiPro: an experimental system of F. Della Corte e-learning training intended for operators and managers of Civil Defense and First Rescue

  • I-SEE: preparation of training materials for 3D exercises, via computer, for operators and managers of First Aid in Disaster Medicine.

Interesting visual documentary.

F. Della Corte

48th Cenacle

March 11, 2005

“INFORMAL ECONOMIES IN AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA - NEW AVENUES FOR EUROPEAN COOPERATION”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: LUCA PALAGI - Engineer Area Manager for international cooperation projects and the CTM Altro Mercato Italia

A dramatic debut in the analysis. From World Development Indicators of the World Bank 2004 edition:

“1.101 million people live at the extreme poverty line with prevalence in the African Continent.”

This is complemented by Le Boucher's publication in “Le Monde” which noted the doubling to 314 million poor in Africa in the 21st century.

Europe, still in the process of political union and with limited powers in matters of Foreign Policy and Budget, and the United States would have the opportunity to accomplish the redistribution of resources on a global scale as well as ensure political stability in territories plagued by decades-long tribal strife that harms the lives of entire local communities and undermines their development

L. Palagi


49th Cenacle

October 21, 2005

“EUROPE: INTEGRATED ECONOMY AND EUROPEAN SOCIAL MODEL”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: CLAUDIO GRUA Professor of Economics of European Integration University of Turin Faculty of Political Science

From “The European Dream” by Jeremy Rifkin

Cue to start the exposition

Europe “emphasizes community relations more than individual autonomy, cultural diversity more than assimilation, quality of life more than wealth accumulation, sustainable development more than unlimited material growth....

and again ...

on universal human rights and those of nature, on global cooperation more than on the unilateral exercise of power”.

Indeed, we all, as European citizens, enjoy greater social protections, longer life expectancy, more leisure time and less widespread poverty and social degradation.... 

But it still fails to fulfill that role as an integrated and harmonious federation.

C. Grua


50th Cenacle

Feb. 24, 2006

“EUROPE: THE WEST OF THE CELTS BETWEEN LEGEND AND REALITY.”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: PAOLA DI MAIO Archaeologist Superintendent of Cultural Heritage Turin

Discordant and sometimes emphasized historical reports about the ancient Communities of the Ksltoi, or Celts or Galatians or Gauls in the West and East.

Possibly of Indo-European linguistic roots, immigrated to Central Southern Europe and the Transalpine and Cisalpine Areas to Central Italy.

Culturally absorbed by the Romans and somewhat mythically evoked by them.

Here is a look, even a visual one, from New Europe to the Europe of origins, demythologizing the irrational local sagas of some Lombard-Venetian communities in vogue today.

The archaeological material projected is interesting.

P. Di Maio


51st Cenacle

May 12, 2006

“THE DEFENSE OF CITIZENS' HEALTH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA AND THE WORLD.”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: Monsignor ERNESTO SCIRPOLI Consultor of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health in the World and Member of the Delegation of the Permanent Mission of the Holy See to the UN in Geneva

“Bioethics and Charity: tasks for the theologian called to the Vatican” so the title of a newspaper article some time ago'.

Here is the commitment to advise and help others of the fine theologian called by Pope Wojtyla to the World Council for Health Pastoral Care and the UN Delegation in Geneva.

Convinced of the goals expressed in the description of his new international commitments: to humanize more and more relationships in the world of health care to respect

Always the person, then, at the center of European and global reality.

And here is the assiduous commitment to hospitals, orphanages, leprosariums, homes for the elderly and the terminally ill or suffering from degenerative diseases.

Accessible today is information about World Bodies partly unknown to us all.

Mons. E. Scirpoli


52nd Cenacle

September 29, 2006

“THE NEW REALITY OF WORK IN GLOBALIZED EUROPE.”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: MICHELE VESCERA Head of Quality - Safety - Environment Rieter Automotive Finit - Italy

Faced with the ever-increasing acceleration of the globalization process in different spheres: economic, social, environmental, in information and communication, the ordinary citizen, even an informed one, asks the question:

* Is globalization good or bad?

Is it for all of us, for rich countries, for emerging countries and even for poor countries ...

The experience of working in different areas of the world enables the speaker to illustrate its evolution over time, its positive implications, the phenomena of change in international relations, and the gradual transformation of the world itself into a true global village.

M. Vescera


53rd Cenacle

February 16, 2007

“OLYMPICS 2006 - UNIVERSIADES 2007 - PIEDMONT HUB OF AGGREGATION AND VALUES”

Review from Novara Europa

Speakers: GIULIANA MANICA - Regional Councillor for Tourism, Sports, Lifts, Equal Opportunities and ELIANA BAICI - Vice Dean Faculty of Economics University of Eastern Piedmont “Amedeo Avogadro”

The ancient European tradition of the Olympic Games, a true moment of peace, is an example of collaboration and knowledge of even distant and unknown Civilizations.

The original invitation addressed to athletes is always meaningful:

““Citius altius fortius.””

The Winter Olympics and Universiades are an example of this.

Piedmont has supported these events with commendable organization in support of the Values of Sports.


54th Cenacle

May 4, 2007

“GENESIS OF FEDERALIST THOUGHT - PAGES IN HONOR OF ERNESTO ROSSI, PIONEER OF A NEW EUROPE”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: LUIGI VITTORIO MAJOCCHI - Professor of History of Europe Western Faculty of Political Science, University of Pavia, Jean Chair Monnet and ANTONELLA BRAGA Historical Institute of the Resistance and Contemporary Society

On the historic occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Treaties of Rome, here is the presentation of a new book on one of the originators of the Project for the federal unity of Europe, elaborated during his years of confinement in Ventotene back in 1941.

Based on unpublished documentation existing in the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence and other Italian and Swiss archives, Ernesto Rossi's federalist thought and his action in the service of the European Federalist Movement is outlined.

Book presentation:

“"A Jacobin Federalist Ernesto Rossi Pioneers of the United States of Europe".

A. Braga


55th Cenacle

November 16, 2007

“FROM VENTOTENE TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT. ALTIERO SPINELLI: A LIFE FOR A UNITED EUROPE.”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: PIERO GRAGLIA State University of Milan Faculty of Political Science

Altiero Spinelli: 1907-1986

A lesson in method:

  • never limit one's analysis in fixed patterns;

  • always confront reality in its evolution;

  • to be inspired by great ideals including those of the unity and common destiny of Europe;

  • knowing how to rise up from every defeat and take action.

A lesson in humility:

“If the ideas contained in the Unified Constitutional Act had not existed in the mind of the vast majority of this Parliament, I couldn't have put them there.

I merely exercised, as Socrates, the art of maieutics, the midwifery art of bringing forth ideas already present in the mind.”

(Speech to the European Parliament after the approval of the Single Act prelude to the Maastricht Treaty).

P. Graglia


56th Cenacle

Feb. 15, 2008

“EUROPE and the MIDDLE EAST.”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: FEDERICO LEONARDI Vita Salute San Raffaele University Milan, Italy.

The recent Lisbon Treaty of December 13, 2007, now being ratified by the 27 member countries, addresses the problem of common defense and security (CSDP) in the face of dramatic events in several areas of the planet and, in inhuman form, in Middle Eastern countries.

The desired stabilization in that area thus becomes one of the priority commitments of European foreign policy

Europe's united action in the face of unresolved conflicts, the challenges of terrorism and the spread of nuclear weapons is indispensable to the maintenance of world balances.


57th Cenacle

May 16, 2008

“THE OTHER EUROPE - REVOLUTIONS FOR FREEDOM AND POLITICAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS IN FORMER SOVIET AREAS”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: ANDREA RISCASSI - Journalist Rai 3 - Milan, Author of “Orange flag will triumph”

In the celebratory moment of European May, here is a look at the other Europe, at the troubled reality of the former Soviet Republics animated by libertarian demonstrations or “velvet revolutions,” by the orange-colored symbol against the persistence of authoritarian regimes.

The KGB is no longer there but, polonium, bullets and dioxin are circulating to suppress political opponents and opinion-makers in the most reputable newspapers.

A. Riscassi


58th Cenacle

Oct. 24, 2008

“A EUROPEAN CITIZEN FOR LOVE IN A EUROPE OF WARLIKE IMPERIALISM AND ILLIBERAL REPRESSION: LEOPOLDINA STORK OF TERDOBBIATE”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: MARINA AIROLDI TUNIZ - Historian and Researcher

In the nineteenth-century Europe that was being formed on the battlefields, a brave Lombard-Novarese woman, Leopoldina Cicogna Mozzoni of Terdobbiate who became the wife of Count Friedrich Rembert von Berg, a high-ranking Estonian officer in the service of the Tsar, after the end of the Napoleonic wars, moved with great ease between Poland, Finland and St. Petersburg in the 1850s-60s, and all because of her husband's love and esteem.

In faraway Lutheran Finland, in Helsinki, as a profound Catholic built for Catholic soldiers mostly Poles under her husband's command.

She dedicated it to St. Enrik the martyr and evangelizer of Finland.

Today it is the Finnish Catholic Cathedral.

Leopoldina moved back to Poland and died in Warsaw in 1874.

M. Airoldi Tuniz


59th Cenacle

November 28, 2008

“A NEW FUTURE FOR EUROPE: THE ENERGY CITY”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: ROBERT VAN LIGTEN - Former Vice-President

Swiss Solar Energy Association (SSES) Ticino Section.

Is it possible to achieve a balanced energy policy across the European Union that aims to reduce waste, activate alternative sources and create new job opportunities?

In Switzerland, they are trying with remarkable results with the “Energy Cities” project, already implemented in 139 municipalities. The movement and ideas are spreading to all European nations.

The meeting to be interpreted as a moment of knowledge and a stimulus to make “Novara Energy City.”

Many talk about it but few realize it.

R.V. Ligten


60th Cenacle

April 3, 2009

“THE COLOMBIAN CONFLICT IN THE LIGHT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: JAIRO AGUDELO - Instructor of International Law Humanitarian

Jairo Agudelo

Colombian, Degree in Philosophy.

(Universidad del Valle - Cali), PhD in Political Philosophy (Lateran University), Degree in Political Science with a political-international focus (La Sapienza University), Instructor of International Humanitarian Law and Peace Observer in Angola (LusakaONU Agreement ) 1996.

Narcotrafficking, civil war and corruption. Colombia so far away, but also so close, told by an Eyewitness who, with a comprehensive analysis outlines the issues that run through the socio-political reality of this beautiful

South American country, torn between the tragic everyday life of the illiterate and destitute peasant masses and the enormous interests of the few who hold absolute wealth and power.

J. Agudelo


61st Cenacle

March 12, 2010

“EUROPE AFTER LISBON: MORE SECURITY, MORE JUSTICE, MORE FREEDOM”

Review from Novara Europa

Speaker: GIULIA ROSSOLILLO - Professor of European Union Law University of Pavia

The Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force on December 1, 2009, closed the third attempt to introduce a Constitution in Europe, after the previous establishment of the EDC and the constituent initiatives of the European Parliament initiated by an Italian parliamentarian and convinced European federalist: Altiero Spinelli.Results are once again incomplete.

Results are once again incomplete.

The great expectation urged by the Convention led by Giscard d'Estaing and enhanced by the Treaty of Nice with the proposal for “an adjustment of the European Institutions” and a better Government of Europe in view of the enlargement to the Central-Eastern and Balkan countries is still a wish and not a reality.

The new Document, from the laborious process, opens new glimmers and new perspectives.

As a new initiative to be appreciated: the establishment in the European Parliament of the “Spinelli Group” committed to advancing unification on a federal basis.

After long stasis, the European scene comes alive.

G. Rossolillo


62nd Cenacle

November 26, 2010

"THE EURO AND THE REFORM OF THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM "

Reviewed by the Corriere di Novara

Speaker: ANTONIO MOSCONI - Advisor to the Einstein Center for Studies and Information (CESI) in Turin, Italy

On the front pages of newspapers this this year the international financial crisis crisis, the collapse of the Greek economy Greek economy and fears about the solidity of the Euro have been given a lot of space and have created concern.

What is the true reality?
What are the future prospects?

Here is the first observation: gone is the centrality of the dollar that began with the Bretton Woods agreements in 1944 (the only currency convertible into gold at a fixed price). The monetary hegemony of the dollar today no longer exists, since the world's GDP is distributed equally between Europe, the US, China and the rest of the world.

Necessary therefore is a type of currency representing the four balanced poles.

Today we are witnessing an attempt at change initiated by the European Union (the only reality with a balanced budget and no foreign debt).

A. Mosconi