The impact of a world event, such as the 15 August meeting between the President Trump and the President Putin, was unbelievable, but the particularity is that it was carried out in one of those areas considered a extreme periphery of the World, or 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 a territory that nevertheless recalls the heroic epic of the Sicilian fishermen of Marettimo who found economic redemption by fishing and salting salmon there. Plenty of Mediterraneanness even in icy Alaska. I draw from this connection, now, to bring out the motivations that led to the foundation of our and your MonteCarloStyle. The first is in the founders' common recognition of the ability to SAS Albert II and His Kingdom to have expressed and disseminated in recent years the evolution of the authentic Mediterranean style. Social, environmental and economic policies careful to develop the Mediterranean distinctiveness. In what does this difference consist? Mainly in putting personality before performance, relationships before competition: humanistic culture. That culture that has been a driving force in history, but which has suffered a major crisis in the last century, with the prevalence of Anglo-Saxon models as references, even in the educational systems of the heir states of the Greek heritage-Latin.
So a newspaper with the Principality of Monaco as “Capital” of the Mediterranean distinctiveness and humanistic culture, expressing a style that is renews in this historical phase. It renews itself by generating social contamination and technological evolution. A newspaper that delves into and narrates the social, cultural, environmental and economic phenomena, by bringing out a style of reference. 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, i.e. to know how to go against the tide.
The experience of the summit in Alaska would also lead us to bring up the issue of the inland Mediterranean areas, interpreted very well, for example, by the “Grimaldi” Historic Sites Association”. We will try to foster associationism that creates bonds, the famous relationships, to re-contextualise those who feel peripheral in a new social centrality, choosing to step into the wake of the Monegasque style. A style that allows us to renew the categories of reference in the world of work, from the integral ecological conversion to technological research. The work in the excellence in the Mediterranean, but also that of frontier workers and young generations on the move. We want to be a story and a showcase of good practices, forum for comparison and pleasant recreation. Comparison of urban, rural and coastal development in the vanguard expressed by the community itself led by the Grimaldi Family. Contributing to building a network of like-minded communities. We would like to re-read the great traditional events of the Principality in the stories of the past and in 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
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