Within the days of negotiations for Brussels with Italy liable to ending up remoted, the European dream comes again to life between one stroke and one other within the sixth version of the Natalonga held in Ventotene, accompanied by the greeting of the previous French president Francois Hollande.
100 swimmers crossed the 1700 meters of the stretch of sea that separates the island of S. Stefano from the Calanave seashore, a symbolic place the place the anti-fascist confinements Spinelli, Rossi and Colorni laid the foundations of the neighborhood dream.
As per custom, a number of occasions accompanied the sporting occasion organized by EuropaNow, together with the screening of the documentary movie ’20 Days in Mariupol’ by Ukrainian director and Pulitzer ChernovOscar Award 2024.
To inform the story of the troublesome job of a struggle correspondent, journalist Francesca Mannocchi intervened, who mentioned of Natalonga, “you will need to be in Ventotene whereas conflicts are ongoing on our borders, as a result of it reminds us that right here somebody imagined, believed and liberated this continent”.
The godfather of this 12 months’s version, created in collaboration with the illustration of the European Fee in Italy, was the author and journalist Olivier Guezwho additionally took half within the swim, “it’s important to recollect the European tragedies of the twentieth century, however we can’t create the concept of a European journey solely with adverse reminiscence, says the French author, “now we should rethink a story and create some enthusiasm across the concept of Europe, based mostly on the work of many European artists, intellectuals and writers. That is the situation for successful modern challenges”.
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– 2024-07-15 07:05:23
