The impact of a world event, such as the 15 August meeting between President Trump and President Putin, was incredible, but the peculiarity is that it took place in one of those areas considered an extreme periphery of the World, Alaska.
An extreme part of the globe, in terms of climate and location, and often off the track of human history, apparently.
I use this adverb because it is an area that nonetheless recalls the heroic epic of the Sicilian fishermen of Marettimo who found economic redemption by fishing and salting salmon there.
A lot of Mediterraneanness even in icy Alaska.
From this connection I now draw the motivations that led to the foundation of our and your MonteCarloStyle.
The first is in the founders’ common recognition of the ability of HSH Albert II and his reign to have expressed and spread the evolution of authentic Mediterranean style over the years.
Social, environmental and economic policies focused on developing Mediterranean distinctiveness.
What does this difference consist of?
Mainly in putting personality before performance, relationships before competition: humanistic culture.
That culture that has been a driving force in history, but which has been in crisis in the last century, with the prevalence of Anglo-Saxon models as references, even in the school systems of the heir states of the Greco-Latin heritage.
Thus, a newspaper with the Principality of Monaco as the “Capital” of Mediterranean distinctiveness and humanistic culture, expressing a style that is renewed in this historical phase.
It renews itself by generating social contamination and technological evolution.
A newspaper that investigates and reports on social, cultural, environmental and economic phenomena.
A style that is accompanied by ideality and a heritage of values, which corresponds to that of Christianity.
An ambitious journalistic project in three languages, developed by a young editorial team spread across the Mediterranean shores and with the strength of Alaskan salmon, that is, to be able to go against the tide.
The experience of the summit held in Alaska would also lead us to bring out the theme of inland Mediterranean areas, interpreted very well, for example, by the “Grimaldi” Historic Sites Association.
We will try to favour associationism that creates bonds, the famous relationships, to re-contextualise those who feel peripheral in a new social centrality, choosing to follow in the footsteps of the Monegasque style.
A style that allows us to renew the categories of reference in the world of work, from integral ecological conversion to technological research.
The work in centres of excellence in the Mediterranean, but also that of border crossers and the young generation on the move.
We want to be a story and showcase of good practices, a forum for comparison and a pleasant recreational tool.
Comparison of urban, rural and coastal development in the avant-garde expressed by the very community led by the Grimaldi family.
Help build a network of like-minded communities.
We would like to reread the great traditional events of the Principality in the stories of the past and the plans for the future, perhaps through the women and men who are protagonists or simply participants.
MonteCarloStyle is not chronicle, but prose and poetry of Monegasque and Mediterranean style.
Nicola Tavoletta
