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December 2006 |
| The Seminars of the Fondazione Foedus
Friday December 1st 2006 - Italian Senate - Sala Zuccari - Palazzo Giustiniani From Hungary and Poland to the Fall of the Wall. With the participation of Senator Mario Baccini, Vice-President of the Italian Senate and President of Fondazione Foedus; Senator Giulio Andreotti, Life Senator; Senator Rocco Buttiglione, President of the UDC political party; Prof. Renato Guarini, Dean University of Rome “La Sapienza”; Prof. Angelo Petroni, Administration RAI; Hon. Umberto Ranieri, President of the Foreign Affairs Commission to the Chamber of Deputies. This seminar opens a season of cultural events promoted by Fondazione Foedus. This year we remember the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution. For some time now this recurrence is at the center of a debate promoted by European mass media. The vivacity of this debate, both by public opinion and the political sphere, is a demonstration of how alive the sentiment still is today. When, a 23rd of October, some 50 years ago, a group of students started a number of demonstrations to demand free elections and economical reforms, nobody could have imagined that it would have inflamed Hungary, involving emotionally and politically the whole of Europe. Only today, with a clear glance to our history we are able to identify the trait d'union binding those dramatic days to the movements of Central Europe: Poznan in 1956, the Spring of Prague in 1968, Solidarnosc in 1980, all the way to the fall of that wall in 1989 which would lead to the decisive opening of all cultural and political barriers in Europe. Today we are morally obliged to honour the memory of those who fell victim of a totalitarian ideology, because they were carriers of future, civilization, and all those principle in which we identify in today. And Fondazione Foedus has promoted this seminary to do just that. |
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