Posted on 24 February 2014
EUI President Joseph H. H. Weiler, Secretary-General Pasquale Ferrara and a delegation of 17 EUI researchers and post-doctoral fellows met with the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano on 24 February at the Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome.
Researchers from the four departments and post-doctoral fellows from the Max Weber Programme and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies were invited to describe and discuss with President Napolitano their research related to EU integration.
The encounter was also an occasion for President Weiler to personally convey the Institute’s profound gratitude and appreciation for the Italian state’s long-standing support of the EUI. Italy is one of the original six signatories to the 1972 Convention setting up the European University Institute, and since 1976 the country has provided and maintained magnificent buildings in Fiesole and in Florence for the academic activities of the Institute.
Read the press release by the Quirinale and look ad the photos of the event.
(Photo ©Presidency of the Italian Republic)