It meets at the Farnesina from 24 to 26 March the Chairmanship Committee of the General Council of Italians abroad.
Fix the work agenda, beginning with the meeting with the General Manager for services to citizens abroad and the migration policies of the MAECI, min. plen. Silvia Limoncini, during which the Government Report will be illustrated, which will provide the opportunity for an update on the situation of compatriots in the areas involved by the conflict in the Middle East, to make the hot spot on the data of referendum consultation abroad and to analyze the results of the recent Constitutional Court ruling on the reform of citizenship.
In view of the next elections for the renewal of the Com.It.Es., the comparison will also serve to verify that the organizational process of the diplomatic-consolar network guarantees maximum participation in the vote, also from the point of view of the correct functioning of the computer platforms and an effective informative campaign. It will also work with the DGIT V Office to define the setting up of the informal and operational work table required by the CGIE in the matter of Italian language and culture management bodies, with respect to which the Directorate-General has demonstrated availability, and to deepen the project of creating a portal for the simplification of bureaucratic procedures to the burden of such entities, long invoked by the General Council.
The programme then provides for a working section with CNEL Vice-President Claudio Risso to continue the collaboration between the two institutions and develop the points of common interest identified in the Interinstitutional Agreement signed last year. It also includes the signing ceremony of the agreement protocol with the Museo dell’Emigrazione Italiana, with which a list of common projects will be examined.
At the centre of the work the organization of the Plenary Assembly, convened for the week from 11 to 15 May, in which will be brought to summary the work of the Commissions on the priority themes set in the second trimester of last year: promotion of language and culture, teaching of the history of emigration in Italian schools and reform of the General Council. Point, the latter, which will form the subject of a meeting with the experts of the CGIE, with whom we intend to relaunch the collaboration.
In addition, the nominations received for the participation of the Michele Schiavone Prize will be examined, whose winner will be designated by the Jury at the end of the work, and then will be officially awarded at the Plenary Assembly.
The results of the work of the Chairmanship Committee will be illustrated at a press conference on Thursday, March 26 at 2 p.m. at the Gaja Hall (II floor) of the MAECI.
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