De Ampurias to Gaza, from Marseilles to Alexandria, Tobruk to Genoa, from Algeciras to Istanbul (how can we forget on this occasion for many for me, better Joan Manuel Serrat song ?)... many landmarks, places sound in the world's collective memory, emerge in the mind when trying to link in a frame racking infinite possibilities, the limits of the Mediterranean world archiconocidos . I land in, but just as fond memories as evocation brings me to this sea of \u200b\u200bsinuous and sharp profiles at the same time, so many nuances to anyone who provides any of its currency from the banks to, enriched by the variety of horizons, concluding that all are part of the same space: the vast, yet secluded setting where history has continued to become as they did the culture, economy and societies . The Mare Nostrum has never outdated has always been shown as an area alert and vigilant because what was happening on its banks has been marked with letters imperishable some of the most striking pages of the history of civilizations. We are indebted to the Mediterranean, as has given us and made us live as , amid a landscape full of conflict, tension, confrontation, but also the sensitivities of which we can never let go.
However, despite shared history and experiences that unite under the locked mobility - precisely because the feeling of belonging to a common area leads to it - the Mediterranean is also expression fracture that has not ceased to worsen over time to become, today, unfathomable. The two sides facing each other but they do with the same sense of interdependence and willingness to understanding and meeting. The North has provided the South with a different perspective, traditionally led by France, which has proudly assumed the direction of the pattern of relationships that bind the developed Europe with North Africa. All other countries have lagged behind the bar marked by the country of the grandeur, the country whose most emblematic square - the de la Concorde, Paris - stands the obelisk of Luxor and another that sets the rules control and supervision to the territories of the Maghreb, which it considers under its protection, as a great backyard. In vain did the Barcelona Conference (1995) (and the Euro derived from it), which in the Catalan capital tried to lay the foundations for a new model of relations and coexistence based on something more than the neo-colonial treatment of the issues that justify the continued existence of such links and the meaning attached to them. Then came the Mediterranean Union proposal, advocated by France to defend their interests, and so painstakingly built bridge collapsed.
the Mediterranean has never been definitely calmed space. The unspeakable tragedy of Gaza, instability in Lebanon, the fracture of Cyprus, the collapse of Yugoslavia, the failure of Gibraltar ... countless points of friction, countless seizures, which have happened in time and still survive as a credible demonstration of the difficulties that prevent a field set of equilibria, respect and coexistence in diversity standard. Mediterranean again shows how much remains to be done for this cause. Began in Tunisia, continued in Egypt, Algeria and Morocco threat ... while Libya has its image more dramatic and hopeless. To the surprise of almost all Arab societies have shown that also yearn to be free.
Many in Brussels are tearing their hair out about what is happening, without explaining why it happens, while Ashton incoherent babbling, the simplicities of the ineffable or the deafening silence Barroso Von Rompuy reveal their status paradigms of incompetence or stupidity in foreign policy. Astonished at the sight, you only hear the voice of the White House to call things by their name. seems incredible, peasants of Europe comforted, that with what has been raining and you are falling, you continue having no fucking idea what is the Mediterranean.
Serrat excited to still hear the sea all have seen and experienced.
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