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BIRTH
In formal terms, the decision to set up the Maison de la
Méditerranée was taken at Naples on 14th
December 1997 at the end of the II EuroMed Civil Forum, when 2248
participants delegated responsibility to the Fondazione
Mediterraneo with the following purposes:
- Developing with the MdM a physical space
and an organic structure providing a permanent infrastructure
for Euromediterranean partnership, with a rational and functional
organization of the activities undertaken.
- Developing with the MdM an executive instrument
of the will of civic organisms throughout the Euromediterranean
area, expressed in various forms (assembly, consultation, deliberation,
votation, delegation, etc.).
- Developing an organization of the MdM based
on internal relations which are not
hierarchical or vertical, nor indeed subject to informal national
groupings (with each nation constituting a lobby egoistically
determined to derive as much benefit as possible from cooperation).
Instead they are horizontal and cooperative, based on functions:
a trans-national network of cities, universities, ages, opinion
groups in society, etc.
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