CULTURAL HERITAGE CONCERNS PUT ON POLICY AGENDA IN MALTA

feb 26

Valletta – On 18 February 2010, Executive President Denis de Kergorlay, spoke to a large gathering of influential Maltese policy makers and representatives of heritage organisations on ‘Europe and Heritage’. Focusing on how our roots and identity have been shaped by our European heritage and history, he under-lined the way the historic environment – encompassing both our built and natural heritage – consists of layers of artefacts, buildings and sites that generations have shaped and left behind in the places in which they lived. He demonstrated how we are all trustees of the mosaic of layered inheritance which enriches Europe and its citizens, both figuratively and literally. Our European heritage is in every sense a common wealth which stretches from the tip of Malta to the northernmost Arctic in Norway and from the Atlantic to the Urals. Denis de Kergorlay also explains the various activities through which Europa Nostra seeks to advocate at European level the cultural heritage concerns as “The Voice of Cultural Heritage in Europe” l

The talk was co-organised by Daniel Rondeau, the French Ambassador to Malta, and Martin Scicluna, Board member of Europa Nostra and General Director of the “Today Public Policy Institute” think-tank based in Valetta, as the first of this year’s line-up of top-level French speakers brought to Malta to speak on a variety of subjects of public interest.