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PRESS RELEASE Lyndon LaRouche Addresses Events In Lombardy, Italy |
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On Monday, May 5, Lyndon LaRouche visited the northern Italian city of Vicenza, where he was invited as the main speaker to a conference organized by ISIES, a think-thank associated with the Chamber of Commerce. Two years ago, LaRouche had been in Vicenza, a city with a high density of small entrepreneurs, who constitute the backbone of an export-oriented economic region.
The conference took place in the Vicenza Chamber of Commerce and saw the participation of about 40 entrepreneurs, who listened to LaRouche and engaged him in a lively two-hour discussion. (Click here to read a transcript of his remarks.) A Vicenza-based member of Parliament, who had been among the initiators of the New Bretton Woods resolution last September, also intervened from the podium, thanking LaRouche and asking several questions. The conference was covered by two local televisions and local newspapers. The newspaper Il Giornale di Vicenza ran a preemptive coverage profiling LaRouche as a leftist (progressive) Presidential candidate, in a non-slanderous, sympathetic article. After the conference, the daily Il Gazzettino reported LaRouche's suggestions for the small, medium and micro-enterprises of northeastern Italy: technology-sharing with China, helped by institutions set up at the national or local level. On May 8, Lyndon LaRouche spoke to a Chamber of Commerce-sponsored event in Milan, Italy. He presented the options for Eurasia, in terms of trade, etc. and discussed what the problems are. He emphasized that we are past the period in which war is a necessity. Because today, the challenge of cooperation is so great, we've entered into a new condition of humanity, in which war should become a thing of the past. What we need now, Lyn stressed, is cooperation among sovereign nation states. Lyn spoke to a full house at the Chamber of Commerce, of 60-70 people, largely composed of representatives of small- and medium-sized businesses and industries. Three consulates were represented, and there were 6 or 7 members of the Lombardy Regional Council (the regional parliament), from different political parties. A transcript of the speech will be available on this website shortly. - 30 -
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