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*Brussels/EU Summit/Angelo Marcopolo/- In Exclusive Statemens to "Eurofora" on the sidelines of his Press Conference at EU Heads of State/Governments' Summit in Brussels, New EU Parliament's President David Sassoli from Italy, Urged for "Strong (EU) Citizens' Voices" !    

He had just presented to -and Discussed with-  the Summit the Outcome of EU Parliament's Constitutional Committee's Votes on MEPs' Amendments, Earlier this Week in Brussels, to a Draft Resolution on how to Shape concretely the forthcoming Conference for Europe's Future.

- But "Eurofora" had noticed that the Initial Landmark References to EU Citizens' input had, apparently, paled away, almost vanished, or were, comparatively, marginalized in the Latest relevant Official Documents...

+Therefore, we also asked French President Emmauel Macron's Counselor on European affairs, Clement Beaune, whether Macron really persisted in his Original Ambitious Vision, (Highlighted initialy at his landmark Speech at Acropolis' Historic Pnyx Rock, back on September 2017), or had, eventually, marked any relevant Last-Minute Change, perhaps towards relativizing it, in one way or another.

Beaune's immediate reaction to "Eurofora"s query was to Stress that Macron maintained his Original Vision and proposals, without any doubt.

=> Therefore, President Sassoli's Reply to our above-mentioned Question, by ricochet, gets another, even more Topical Meaning :

- "We (EU) Need Strong Citizens' Voices, in order to Hear what they have to Say !", told "Eurofora" the President of EU Parliament, (who has worked also as a Journalist himself, for a Long Time), Smiling...

>>> In other words, it's up to EU Citizens to Strive to really Earn and deserve their place inside the EU Decision-Making process for the foreseable Future !...:

 In EU Summit's Conclusions, published later today, EU Heads of States/Governments, after having discussed this issue with EU Parliament's President Sassoli from the Beginning of their Brussels' meeting of this December 2019, decided to "Define a Council Position", not only "on the Content" and "Scope", but also on the "Composition and Functioning" of "a Conference on the Future of Europe", which "should contribute to the Development of our (EU) Policies in the Medium and Long Term, so that we can Better Tackle current and future Challenges".

- It  "should Build on the succesful holding on Citizens' Dialogue, over the Past 2 Years (2018+  See, f.ex., inter alia, also "Eurofora"s NewsReports from the Inauguration of EU Citizens' Consultations by Frech President Macron at nearby Vosges Mountains, etc., at : ..., ..., etc), "and Foresee Broad Consultation of Citizens, in the course of the Process", for which there is a wider "Need to be Inclusive", this Brussels' EU Summit officially "underlined" further on.

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*Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Surprizingly, After the Recent Press Interviews by "Eurofora" with Mathew Caruana Galizia, Daphne's Son and Journalist himself, and European "ARTE" TV Film-Maker on Daphne's Murder, (New Film due to be Finalized and Published on 2/2020), German Journalist Tim Röhn, at the Beginning of November (4 and 8) on the occasion of CoE's Annual 2019 "World Forum for Democracy", (See : ... + ..., etc), subsequent Developments concerning Daphne's Murder Investigation suddenly appeared to, at last, Start Evolving in the Direction that we had Discussed then :

- "Eurofora" had raised a Question, to Both, on Why there was, until Then, a so Blatantly big Difference between Investigations on Web Journalists' Murders first in Malta, (where Not any Instigator had yet been found at all, and Nobody Bothered among several Suspect Politicians), compared to Slovakia, later-on, (where Instigators were cought and various Top Politicians a.o. had been Seriously Affected) ?

That Key Question, in Fact, (even if Not Explicitly Raised yet), had Already Occupied EU Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs and Liberties, at the Eve of May 2019 EU Elections, when Dutch Liberal MEP Sophie in't Veld was Preparing her relevant Report on that exceptional serial of Journalists' Murders on 2017, withOut recent precedent in Europe.

- Even if they Replied at Different Moments, (Despite having Initially Heard our Question at the Same Moment and in the Same Circumstances), Both Andrew and Tim proved to be quasi-Unanimous on the Main Diagnosis :

>>> It's Because in Slovakia, corrupted and/or inefficient Politicians and/or their Cronies had been Obliged (by popular Protests, Public Pressure, and/or Factual Revelations) to Resign, while, on the Contrary, in Malta, something Similar had Not Happened yet, at least until that moment, they Both Replied in substance, Mathiew at First.

+ Tim advanced a Step Further, Adding, Later-on, also that, in Slovakia's case, (that he Knew well, since the Victim had been, in fact, Working for the Same Big German Media Company as himself), it's Even those in charge of the Investigation (such as Justice Minister, Attorney General, Police Director, etc) who had been Affected too, and, in most cases, Changed and Replaced by Other Persons, more Willing to Act accordingly.

- As for "Journalists' Safety", at least as things stand until Today, "you can Ask ME !...", Bitterly smiling told "Eurofora" Daphne's 2nd Son, Mathew, a Journalist himself, speaking right in Front of CoE's "Platform to Promote the Protection of Journalism" Stand inside the PanEuropean Organisation's HQ Building, on the occasion of its Annual "World Forum for Democracy 2019"....     

=> Nowadays Latest Developments on Daphne's Murder in Malta, clearly appear to unfold, precisely, According to that Pattern :

- At First, probably Because of a Time Deadline fixed by the CoE, 2 Years After the 2017 Car Bomb Explosion, added to an "InterPol" Involvement from Nearby Lyon HQ, as well as an Exceptionally Joint, strong Statement by UNO's, OSCE's and CoE's Top Watchdogs for Press Freedom, (who clearly Pleaded for Daphne's "Public Interest" Service, as they Named it, Web Journalism : See http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/coeosceunondaphnemurder.html), etc, notoriously, some Interesting "New Facts" were Revealed, More key Arrests made, and at least 2 Politicians Resigned, (including the Head of Prime Minister's Office), Opening Hopes that, at last, All the Truth would be Found, and all Instigators UnMasked and Punished for that Brutal Murder.

That was, roughly, the Situation, just 1 or 2 Weeks After "Eurofora"s above-Mentioned INTWs with Mathew Caruana Galizia and Tim Röhn in Strasbourg, (Comp. Supra), i.e. around the 19th of November 2019.

* But, Since then, all out of a Sudden, a kind of Negative "U-Turn" seems to have, More Recently, Bursted out, Threatening to Block, in fact, the still on-going and UnFinished Investigation, or, rather, to Oblige it to Deviate, Pushing it Away from any Top Political Instigators, by Risking to Restrict it Only in a Few Intermediaries, isolated Individuals from the Private Sector, in a way practically Anodynous for any Corrupted Establishment !

Even More than this Trend in itself, it's the Facts about the apparently very Arbitrary Decisions and other Measures Taken, which looks really Revolting... Among many and various others, at least :

- The above-mentioned Head of the Maltese Prime Minister's Office, Mr. Schembri, was Only Briefly Heard by the Police, and Immediately Released, 100% Free.  

- An arrested Intermediary, a Private Businessman, Jorgen Fenech, who had Offered to give Testimony on Who was the Instigator for Daphne's Murder, in exchange of Amnesty for himself, reportedly Targetting Schembri and some Ministers around Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, was Refused Amnesty, after 6 Hours of Deliberation by the Government, headed by Muscat. Vainly, Fenech's Lawyers had Warned the Judges that Muscat should Not Influence that Decision, because he had an interest to Refuse.

- Prime Minister Muscat, who had initially said that he would Resign too, Now announced that he Wants to Stay in Office until Mid-January 2020, to supervise the Investigation...

- Moreover, PM. Muscat even Closes the Parliament until the End of January 2020, (i.e. does as ...Cromwell in Great Britain, and even Better than current Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who Tried, but Couldn't Close Down an Hostile Parliament, not even for some Days !).

- Fenech's Lawyers, who had Warned the Judges that the current Head of the Investigations' team should be Changed, Because he was too much Influenced by Schembri and/or PM. Muscat, are Ignored.

- On the Contrary, Muscat's Government gives an Amnesty to anOther Intermediary : Taxi-Driver Melvyn Theuma, who, Initially had Designated as Instigators Both Schembri and Fenech, but, Later-on Focuses Exclusively against Businessman Fenech alone !

- However, Daphne's WebNews Site practically ...Ignores Businessman Yorgen Fenech, that she does Not Cite But Only One (1) sole Time, inside a very Short Article, just 2 Days Before her Death... (On the Contrary, during Many Years, she strongly Criticizes and Denounces Prime Minister Muscat and several among his Ministers, - particularly Konrad Mizzi, initially in charge of Health, afterwards Energy, and Now Tourism, who Resigned-, and, particularly, the Head of Prime Minister's Office, Schembri, that she calls a "Crook", and pictures even at the Last Publication of her Life, just Before she's Brutaly Murdered : The Famous Article with the Mention : - "There are Crooks Everywhere you look now. The situation is Desperate.")...

- So that, Since Prime Minister Muscat seems to Deal Personally with the Investigation (Comp. Supra), almost Any Top Political Lead has been practically Droped. On the Contrary, it's a Low-Level, Not Politically Motivated Hypothesis, which is exclusively Privileged, Limited into a shady, obscure Private Businessman alone, (that Daphne Ignored, most of the time : Comp. Supra) !

Suddenly, you don't hear anything not even about Minister Konrad Mizzi, (resigned), who was a notorious target of Daphne's Criticism, very Close to PM. Muscat and Schembri, while People start to Forget (as the Establishment's Medias curiously Ommit to Mention now), that, initially, he was Minister of Health, before taking over Energy and afterwards Tourism, in charge of a Huge Project to give 3 Public Hospitals of Malta to a Foreign Private Company, whose Owners still Remain "UnKnown", as the Murdered Journalist's Youngest Son, Paul, told recently "Eurofora", but apparently Linked at least to an USA Researcher Focused on Genetic Manipulations, who has recently Reached a Phase for "Tests" on his Controversial and UnCertain Methods, and, Perhaps, even related to the Scandal of "Medical Visas", to which was notoriously linked Muscat's Office former long-time Agent, Neville Gafa, who recently (2018-2019) surfaced anew in the "News" for some Strange, UnExplained Visits and even Political Meetings in Libya, (at the Small Area still controlled by a Shaky Government limited around Tripoli), among Press Speculations in Various Kinds of "Smuggling", from Medical Visas to Irregular Migrants, Fuel, even Brutal Islamist Armed Gangs' Chiefs, etc., and, is, Nowadays, Often Visiting Schembri in his private House, for UnKnown reasons, as CoE's Rapporteur on Daphne's Murder, Dutch MEP Peter Omtzigt just observed, (etc)...

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>>> However, many Concrete Facts, including Recent Revelations, clearly Point towards several UnDeniable, even Direct Links between Daphne's Murderers or Intermediaries and Prime Minister Muscat's Office !

Among various others, See, f.ex., also the following :

- Earlier, even that Intermediary Taxi Driver, Melvyn Theuma, related to the Killers, (Comp. Supra), had Noted on Paper that the Instigators of Daphne's Murder were not only Fenech, but Also Prime Minister Muscat's Office Director, Schembri.

- Theuma (who was given Amnesty for his Testimonies : Comp. Supra) had even been Invited to Personaly Visit the Prime Minister's Office, soon After the Latest, 2017 Elections, (i.e. Near the Date of Daphne's Murder), and he did visit that, then.  

- On this occasion, he reportedly even Met Personaly Schembri, took a "Selfie" Photo Together with him, and was Shown Prime Minister Muscat's own Bureau, (etc).

- Moreover, the Intermediary Theuma was also Told, then, that he had just been Enrolled as Agent in a Public Service, and even Started to be Paid the First Months' Salaries, (withOut Yet Knowing Where he was Supposed to be Working)...                                                         

- In Addition, a Public Security Agent, (Later Identified as Keneth Camilleri, a Long-Time Security Guard at Prime Minister Muscat's Office, even Following him in several Official Visits, Abroad, but also Neville Gafa in Libya, later-on), as well as a certain "Johann", have reportedly promised Theuma that the Killers would be, Later, "granted Bail, and receive €1 Million each", as many Medias and CoE's Rapporteur noted.

+ Meanwhile, in Parallel, even the Other Intermediary, Businessman Fenech, "has since Testified that Schembri (Prime Minister Office's Director) had kept him Constantly Informed about the Investigation", and  "Telephone Data is said to show Frequent Contacts between Fenech and Schembri prior to Fenech’s Arrest". Moreover, Schembri "Warned him that his Phone was Tapped, Conspired with him to Evade Arrest, and passed Secret Messages to him (even) After his Arrest, Telling him What to Say to the Police", observed CoE's Rapporteur on Daphne's Murder, Dutch MEP Peter Omtzigt, in his Latest Written Note, Dated 6 December 2019, and released from Strasbourg.

++ Even Prime Minister Muscat himself, "Admitted that he continued to exchange text Messages with Fenech, after he became Prime Minister", and  "Continued" also After Fenech "became an Suspect. Apparently, this was done with the Knowledge of the Malta Security Service (MSS)", Despite the fact that "Muscat had Previously Denied any Contact with Fenech for a ‘Year or two’ before his arrest", CoE's above-mentioned Text adds.

+++ Just this Sunday, 8 Dec. 2019, PM. Muscat's Office former Chief of Staff, Schembri, was reportedly Taken again by Police for anOther Questioning about Documents, (including a Official ID Pass, "Selfie" Photo, and HandWritten Note, etc), around Middleman Theuma's Facticious "Job" to a Public Sector entity, depending from the "Family Ministry", which was, then, Managed by Michael Farrugia, the Current Minister in charge of the Police !...

++++ And Fenech's Lawyers have Already Denounced that Chief Investigator, Inspector Keith Arnoud, was regularly Informing Schembri about the Progres of the Enquiry on Daphne's Murder, asking to Replace him : The Issue has just Started to be Examined by the Courts, which Postponed for After Mid-December...

+++++ But, don't Worry : In Addition, P.M. Muscat's and Schembri's own Lawyer's Daughter-in-Law, Nadine Lia, is reportedly the Magistrate overseing the Enquiry on that Middleman Theuma's Fake Government Job gift, (as the Murdered WebJournalist's Family just Denounced : UPDATED) !!!...

=> Thus, in Malta's "Labour" Party, Nowadays, it seems that all its "Best" Elements and Pals, are, by a Coincidence, taking due "Care of the Investigation" on Daphne's Brutal Murder...

 So that the currently Growing Popular Demonstrations, Activists' Protests, (including at controversial Prime Minister Muscat's Office), etc., seem Natural and Inevitable, as things stand.

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>>> In such Circumstances, it's Obviously Easy to understand why EU Parliament's Delegation of MEPs which has just Visited Malta, Returned back with a Message Warning about an imminent "Risk" against "the Integrity of the Investigation", particularly, as long as "Prime Minister Muscat is (still) in place" !

=> That's why, also CoE's Rapporter on Daphne's Murder, Peter Omtzigt, "strongly reiterate(d) (his) Call for Prime Minister Muscat to Resign with Immediate effect. There must be a Prompt and Effective Investigation of the allegations that members of his Office were Implicated in the Murder and its Cover-up. By clinging to office, Muscat Risks Undermining the Investigation and doing yet further Damage to Malta’s national institutions and international Reputation", he Warned in a Written Statement published in Strasbourg on 6/12/2019, (and, meanwhile, even "New Facts" surfaced, during this Week-End, to Further Justify that : Comp. Supra).

Developments clearly show that the 2nd Point made by ARTE's Film-Maker on Daphne's Murder, just after Meeting also his Son Mathew, Earlier in Strasbourg, in the Replies that they both gave to the above-mentioned "Eurofora"s Question about the Causes of that Astonishig Differene between Malta and Slovakia on Web-Journalists' successive Murders since 2017, (Comp. Supra), is, in Fact, the Most Decisive Issue on 2019 : I.e. Urgently Change those who Monitor the Investigation !

Indeed, "the next 40 Days will be Crucial" for Daphne's Murder Enquiry, Warned EU Parliament's competent Delegation of MEPs, as also CoE's Rapporteur reminded this Week-End.

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*Strasbourg/Angelo Marcopolo/- Among the Worst Violations of Human Rights in the World are those which may Target "Missing" Persons: Murders, Torture/Inhuman-Degrading Treatments, (in Isolation, at the Dark), Muzzling and/or Family Rights trampled underfoot, etc., while many Victims' Families face Tragedies, condemned to Wait for many Years/Decades an UnCertain "Return" of a beloved one, withOut even knowing if he/she is still alive...   

Europe had, unfortunately, the "privilege" to Test, there, its Human Rights' Protection Mechanisms the 1st, in this Post-World War Era, Starting with many ECHR's Cases since the 1974 Turkey's Military Invasion and Occupation of Cypus' Northern Terriories, But Latin-American Institutions and/or Politics managed to soon Catch-up, and even sometimes Bypass Europeans, particularly in the Fight against Impunity of Horrible Crimes, (Comp., already, also from an EU point of view, as early as since 2012, at: http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/redingonvictimscyprusmissing911.html, etc).

Nowadays, the "Old" and "Classic" Issue of ECHR's case-law on Cyprus' "Missing" Persons, has Reached a Crucial Stage in Strasbourg :

During the Last 10 to 15 Years, from 1.510 "Missing" Greek Cypriots, the Remains of 695 Persons have been Identified, and Turkish Authorities Claim to Investigate 306 Cases, CoE noted. This includes POWs, even Women, Children, Elder Civilians, etc, almost certainly Captured Alive, withOut knowing what happened to them afterwards, and who was responsible.

But the Content and Conclusions of such "Investigations" have Not yet been Disclosed, save in Only Four (4) Cases ! Even Worse : Not even a Single Case has led to Any Prosecution proceedings against any Suspect, until Now (12/2019), Denounced the Cyprus' Government...

On the Contrary, in 3 cases on which Turkey gave some "Clarifications", including an important one, earlier Singled out by the COE, (that of Savvas Hadjipanteli, in Varnavas affair, a Bank Employee, reportedly "Taken for Questioning by Turkish Soldiers, and "Recorded" by "Representatives of the International Red Cross", before a Gang of T/C Emptied a Safe at his Bank, with a Key that he always carried with him, Finding Afterwards his Body in a Mass Grave, with a Bullet shot in his Skull), the Turkish Authorities "found ... that the available Evidence was Not Sufficient to initiate a Prosecution, and that until further evidence is available, the Investigations should be considered Closed" !      

     "Military Zones" (60% of the Occupied Territories of Cyprus, controlled by the Turkish Army) ; "Complicated" and "Time Consuming" "Procedures for gaining Access" ; Refusals to Excavate even in Civllian Areas, on pretext that an Owner and/or Occupant did No give his/her Consent ; Information on Mass Burial Locations WithHeld f.ex. in Turkish Military Archives, by "military or auxiliary Personnel who participated in the military Invasion of Cyprus by Turkey in 1974" ; Many Disturbances of Burial Sites and ReLocations of Human Remains, (etc); are among a Long List of Obstacles which Threaten to "Conceil Evidence of Crimes", Cyprus' Government Denounced.

=> In Consequence, CoE's Committee of Ministers, in a Decision adopted Today in Strasboug, stressed from the outset that, "due to the passage of time", it is "Urgent for the Turkish Authorities to advance", with a "Proactive approach" to provide" the "Committee on Missing Persons", with "all Necessary Assistabce to Achieve Tangible Results".    

>>> For that purpose, CoE asked Turkey to provide "UnHindered Access to All Areas which could contain the Remains of Missing persons". Given also the Fact that, with the passage of Time, Witness testimony becomes Scarcer", in consequence, "Documentary Evidence is Urgently Needed", in order "to Identify possible Burial Sites". Therefore, CoE Calls Turkey to "provide ...withOut Delay, ... All Information at their disposal relating to Burial Sites and Any Other Places where Remains might be Found, including ... Military Archives".

- Most Important, CoE expressed its "Interest" about "Information, ... on the ...Investigations", (Comp. Sypra). and Confirmed a "Call on the Turkish Authorities to Ensure the Effectiveness of the Investigations, as well as their Rapid Finalisation".

=> That's why CoE asked Turkey to "Transmit to the Committee of Ministers information on the progress of the Investigations and their Outcome".

This goes,  "in particular, in the Case of Savvas Apostolides", (a Young Conscrit/POW who had been reportedly Seen, by one of his Friends, Captured Alive, inside the Adana Prison at Mainland Turkey), as CoE's Official Decision points out.

+ Meanwhile, CoE, also, "Insisted again firmly on the Unconditional Obligation of Turkey to pay the Just Satisfaction awarded by the European Court in the Judgment "Cyprus v. Turkey" of 12 May 2014, withOut Further Delay".

This concerns 30 Millions € that ECHR's Grand Chamber has awarded, for Moral Damage, to the Families of "Missing" Persons, already 5,5 Years Earlier, but to whom, Turkey has Not yet paid not even a dime...        

On the Contrary, Ankara is reportedly Abusing of its own Obligations in order to ...Blackmail its Victims even on Other massive Human Rights Violations, as, f.ex., the Big Issue of Greek Cypriot Refugees/Displaced Persons (about 21% of the Total Island's Population, of whom Only a Few still struggle to survive in the Occupied Territories of Cyprus, invaded and controlled by Turkey's Military)...           

CoE, except from Repeating the above-mentioned, Correct, but obviously Toothless Verbal Formula, several times, has Not Yet undertaken any known effort to impose the slightest Sanction to Turkey for its blatantly shameless and provocative behavior vis a vis elementary Human Rights, until now.    

Those 2 Issues are due to partly criss-cross eachother, inside CoE's Committee of Ministers' session for the Execution of ECHR's Judgements scheduled on June 2020.

But, will it be in order to really Strengthen Human Rights, or, in order to Yield to just another Turkish Blackmail, among notoriously too many, nowadays, (at CoE, EU, NATO, UN levels) ?        

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*Strasbourg/Hilton/Angelo Marcopolo/- Invited by the Secretary General of the International Association of Tomi Ungerer's Friends, (AIATU in the Original in French), Robert Walter, Experienced former Long-Time Director of the Franco-German Cultural Center at nearby Karlsruhe, for the presentation to the Press of the very Serious, Annual "TomiScope" Review, naturally Focused on the Actuality of the Famous Humoristic Cartoonist and even CoE's PanEuropean"Ambassador"'s Brillant Work, "Eurofora" didn't expect to be, suddenly, propulsed at a Global, World-wide Horizon, in a more Topical Context than one could usually imagine, inviting to Travel accross Continents and throughout History, with a Spicy, Emotional and Imaginative Art.

Naturally, when the AIATU's President, Constant Reibel, gave us, smiling, as a Gift, that precious "Collector's Item", which really is the "Number 20" TomiScope, due to Jump from 2019 to 2020, everybody expected -or, rather, Hoped- that it would Meet the Exceptional Challenge to gather, in its almost 100 large Pages, a lot of Interesting Data, pertinent Reminders, Revelations and/or News, that Inspired to his Best Friends,

(including even the Young French President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, who had Welcomed him at Elysée Palace), the Last "Joke" that Tomi played on Earth, by suddenly Jumping into Eternity, after More than 88 Years of a very Active and Creative Life, between 1931 and 2019.

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Earlier this Year, when the sympathetic Mayor of Nearby Kehl City at Neighbouring Germany, (Now Linked to Strasbourg not only by the "Europa Bridge", recently reinforced for High-Speed Trains, and even Bicycles, but Also by a Splendid Rhine River's "2 Shores Garden" and, at last, a popular Direct "Tram" Connexion, as if it had really Started to progressively Become One City for a foreseable Future), Tony Vetrano, (almost an Homonyme with Tomi !), a real Italian turned into a convinced Deutsch, and Ambitious enough as to try to Learn also French, as a Good European, had Welcomed the "Press Club" of Strasbourg in a well prepared Press Conference on the New, "Post-Tram" Era that was just Beginning for the 2 Cities, it's some Highly Symbolic Drawings of Ungerer on Franco-German Friendship and EU's core Integration, that Robert Walter, offered him as a Gift.

Seated aside "Eurofora", Walter let us Notice the Fact that he had Offered, in Fact, 2, quite Different Ways to Imagine and Design a Joint Franco-German Future in Europe's Heartland : Both Interesting and Positive, one looked, however, even if equally ambitious, also a little-bit more ..."Techno" than the Other, which, on the Contrary, Focused on a very Simple but deeply Human Symbolic Image of 2 Friends rowing Together in 1 Boat through a splendid Nature... Curious to Find out which one Vetrano was going to Choose and show us all, or not, "Eurofora" soon saw that he had, indeed, chosen what looked as the most "Human" and SImple Version, (But Strong in Meening), almost at the Same Time that he Replied to one of Our Questions, during his Press-Conference, by, unexpectedly Pleading for what he named as the ..."Emotional" Character of "Border-line" Neighbouring Regions, which Share one and same Natural Border, (f.ex., here, a River, elsewhere, perhaps, a Mountain, etc)... Tomi Ungerer's Simple but Profoubd "Music" had worked just fine !     

But, Later this Same Year, we were genuinely Surprized to "Meet" anew Tomi Ungerer, this time Well Surrounded by Numerous among his Long-Time Friends, look at us all with a Kind but always Spicy Smile, High from the Top of Strasbourg Cathedral's Giant Roof, thanks to a Huge Image that himself and/or his Family and Pals had Chosen for the Ceremony of his Public Funeral, with the participation of several Confessions, and attended by a lot of People, clearly indicating his Popularity :

Soon, the well known, Traditional Song for "Freedom of Thought", ("Die Gedenken sind Frei"), with the eternal Schieffer, echoed its Music in that emblematic, Historic Christian Monument. It was for a Protestant, who Liked that Catholic Cathedral, even added to some Jewish Yiddish, etc, amidst a Visible Franco-German participation : A Real "Alsacian" in the Middle of Europe...

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- However, when, during Today's 3rd "Meeting" that we had with Tomi Ungerer and his Friends, during this Same Year 2019, at AIATU's Gathering in Strasbourg's "Hilton" Hotel, "Eurofora" asked Walter and Reibel whether it was feasible to have, more or less, a Digitalized Catalogue uniting together a Full Overview of all the Huge List of various and Numerous Works Created by the Artist during all his Life, in a way which would Facilitate also People's and Experts' Research of the most Pertinent Artworks, among Tens of Thousands of "Pieces", (roughly separated between his "Museum" in Strasbourg's superb Republic Square, aside CoE's Secretary General's House, which is also an Internatiobnal Center for Designers, and those still Kept by his Family, living in Ireland since a long time ago, added also to a 3rd Group reportedly assembled by the German art collector Würth, etc), the Reply, given by Walter, was, basically, that, while something like that Already exists, somehow, inside at least a Part of Strasbourg's Museum for Tomi, nevertheless, a Fully-fledged, Scientific and systematic, overall Work of that Kind, might, Probably, be undertaken, sooner or later, "by the University of Cork", in Ireland, as he guessed.

+ And, then, suddenly arrived the Real "Surprize" :  - During the Next Year of 2020, "a Big Lot", more than 500 Pages-long, is due to Emerge, "with Tomi Ungerer's ArtWorks on America !", Walter announced Today. I.e., by a Timely Coincidence, during the Same Year of the forthcoming Crucial USA's Presidential Elections...

- Indeed, Ungerer had Left Europe during the 1950ies, in order to Work in the USA, at New York, and didn't Return but Only during the 1970ies, Walter Reminded to "Eurofora". During all that Period of Time, he was Living and Working there, even if he personaly was Against the residues of Maccarthysm and Cold War, Racial Segregation, Vietnam War, etc., and, on the Contrary, Favorable for Detente, Civic Rights, and Peace, he observed.

Inter alia, it will be certainly Interesting to see, whether, Tomi Ungerer's best Artistic Creations, mainly at the World-Famous Times of the "Sixties" inside the USA, would Help Inspire and ReVive also in Nowadays Europe a Similar "Magic" ambiance, mutatis-mutandis.

Even if we know, Nowadays, that, by having Left from the USA on 1971, he did Not have yet the Time to experience there Nixon's Recognition of China, Detente with Russia, Peace Treaty with Vietnam, End of Segregation, etc : Richard Nixon, indeed, was Not Only the "Watergate" impeachment scandal, But much More in World's History !

Let's cross fingers, and see what will happen, in that regard...

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