Journal of Aspen Institute Italia marks 20th anniversary

(AGI) Rome, Dec 16 - Aspenia, the journal of the Aspen Institute Italia, is celebrating its 20th birthday with a debate at the American Academy in Rome. The event, called "The World in 2016: Italy, Europe and the United States", will be attended by Italian Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, and U.S. Ambassador to the EU, Anthony Gardner. The moderators will be Lucia Annunziata, editor of Huffington Post Italia, and president of state broadcaster RAI, Monica Maggioni. The debate will include Fabrizio Forquet, deputy editor of the newspaper "Il Sole 24 Ore", Matteo Del Fante, CEO of electric company Terna, and John Hulsman, President and co-founder of John C. Hulsman Enterprises. Giulio Tremonti, president of the Aspen Institute, will introduce proceedings and Marta Dassu', editor of Aspenia, will sum up. The journal pointed out, in this phase, called the "Great Uncertainty", "it is essential to safeguard the relationship between a Europe that risks disintegration and an America that dreams of introversion. "It won't be easy [but] because the West is also the future and not just the past, Europe and the United States need to do some serious rethinking." The editorial says, we need a "confederal and more flexible" Europe, "but also more integrated economically within the euro area" and "with a much more cooperative security policy". It is also key that America plays its part: "Aspenia's belief is that the United States is still, and will remain, the hub of a global system that now sees no unchallenged hegemonies." However, "a deep evolution is in progress, and without certain results, of the role that the United States itself wishes to pursue". The editorial concludes, "if this is the overall challenge, if external threats and internal risks are combined, Europe and the United States must manage to govern themselves much more efficiently, so as not to lose a reciprocal preferential relationship and to offer a compromise acceptable to the new powers." (AGI) . .