There are great expectations in New York for the arrival of Giancarlo Elia Valori, President of Sviluppo del Mediterraneo SpA and Sviluppo Lazio SpA who, on Tuesday evening, will officially take the Chair for Peace at the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center of International Affairs of the Yeshiva University, the prestigious private university of the American Jewish Community.

PHARMA-FINANCE 2007. ROME 10-11 MAY

By Laura Teodori and Zofia Maciorowski

Rome, the eternal city, alongside its ancient ruins and classic architectural beauties, looks to the future. The title of this first Congress is thus ‘Pharma-Finance 2007 wagering on the future’. Promoted by Sviluppo Lazio (www.sviluppolazio.it) in collaboration with Zangani Investor Community (www.zangani.com) to foster interactions between drugs and biotech, innovative research enterprises and finance, in order to encourage growth opportunities: science, research and behind all this, industry and finance. Pharma-Finance 2007 was an important part of a program of internationalization policies with not just words and ideas but concrete advancement. The goal was to make Italian businesses and Lazio small and medium sized enterprises interact with equivalent US and international pharmaceutical and financial players.

Basically we can say that today in Europe we witness the resurgence of a new anti-Semitism which, after all, shows strong signs of continuity with the traditional Judeophobia.

Statistics show that in 2006 - the last year for which updated and reliable information exist - in Europe about 2,200 violent acts of anti-Semitism were perpetrated against Jews or assets and buildings belonging to the Jewish Community or its members.

In a territorial setting of real productive potential yet to be fully tapped. Sviluppo Lazio must ensure new and important impetus to regional economic dynamics, in order to contribute to the growth of our regions and their characterizing traits.

True impetus may come from new, proven market tactics, which is to say by further promoting the territory's competitiveness with energies and potential to be guided even more decisively through a strategic mix: territorial marketing and internationalization.

Sviluppo Lazio, Lazio's regional development agency, was founded in 1999 and is charged with the task of implementing the region's economic and territorial agendas. In a region so rich with potential, Sviluppo Lazio's primary mission is to assist in the development of regional infrastructures, manufacturing businesses, and to increase employment. The agency accomplishes this mission in many ways: by promoting enterprise motivated ideology; by sustaining territorial development programs; by participating in infrastructural investment projects and by fostering partnerships between public and private entities.