On 18 and 19 June the 70th anniversary of the Messina-Taormina Conference is celebrated, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Sicilian Region, the Taormina Arte Sicilia Foundation, the Municipalities of Messina and Taormina and the Taobuk Festival.
The event He will celebrate the initiative that on June 3, 1955 allowed to arrive at the “Messina resolution», A series of principles and intent defined by the six founding countries aimed at creating the European Community of Atomic Energy and what it will become, with the signature of the 1957 Treaties of Rome, the common European market.
The program will open June 18th With a public meeting at Palazzo Zanca in Messina, in the presence of the foreign ministers of the countries signatory of the final report of the 1955 conference (France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg), followed by the inauguration ceremony at the Antico Theater of Taormina with a concert by the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra directed by Alevent Iffe, with music by Rossini, Verdi and Bellini. June 19th A ministerial session behind closed doors will be held with the participation of all the delegations present in which the signature of a joint declaration on the future of Europe will follow, with the commitment to complete its expansion, redesigning its boundaries. Among the participants in the ministerial: Minister Deglieseli Antonio Tajani, Renato Schifani, Marta Kos, European commissioner for enlargement and mayors of the cities of Taormina and Messina Cateno De Luca and Federico Basile.