The Government department responsible for the maintenance of publicly-owned buildings has called a meeting for Tuesday, January 30, to discuss progress on the rehabilitation of the Jardins d’Apolline complex in the Condamine.
The purpose of the meeting is to inform residents and tenants of commercial spaces about the progress of the ongoing renovation programme and to answer questions.
Over the past few months the complex has suffered from serious problems with the water pipes, necessitating several shutdowns of the hot water supply and extensive overnight work. In some cases, tenants have been given alternative short-term accommodation and rent reductions.
The meeting starts at 7 pm in the auditorium of the Lycée technique et hôtelier (at 7 Allée Lazare Sauvaigo, across the street from Starbucks).
The Opera de Monte-Carlo has announced that its 3-hour production of J. Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann will be broadcast from the Principality on the Culturebox website and live on the Mezzo TV channel on the evening of the last performance, Wednesday, January 31, at 8 pm.
Additionally, Katharina Rabillon made a report for of Euronews’ “Musica” program in English.
The Monte Carlo Opera is particularly pleased that its performances are once again in the spotlight after the broadcast of Tannhäuser in February 2017, Don Giovanni in March 2015 and Ernani in April 2014.
This production – created in Monaco – is the opportunity to discover for the first time the internationally renowned tenor Juan Diego Florèz, in the role of the poet Hoffmann.
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Government promotes humanitarian aid through Menton campus Winter School
(L-R) Bernard El Ghoul, Sciences Po Campus Director; Karolina Lindholm Billing, Deputy Representative of UNHCR in Lebanon; Bénédicte Schutz, Director of International Cooperation; and Gilles Tonelli, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. Photo: Charly Gallo/DC
For the fourth consecutive year, the Department of International Cooperation (DIC) organised a Winter School, a week of thematic courses for first year students on the Middle East-Mediterranean Campus of Sciences Po Paris in Menton.
During the week of January 22 to 26, partners of the DCI, recognised actors in the field of development aid – the International Committee of the Red Cross, World Food Programme, Handicap International – presented the basic principles of humanitarian support and the specific issues of humanitarian crises such as health, nutrition and disability.
For two days, the students discussed Lebanon’s special situation, with speeches by the Lebanese Ambassador to France, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Relief and Works Agency, and the office of the United Nations for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
On the sidelines across the week, the Prince’s Government, represented by Gilles Tonelli, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, and Isabelle Rosabrunetto, Director General of the Department, signed two agreements: the first with the UNHCR Bureau in Lebanon for its schooling programme for Syrian children, and the second with the Handicap International Federation, to support its new campaign against the use of explosive weapons in populated areas.
“Monaco, at the height of its means … seeks not only to contribute to a more stable, more just, more generous world but also to transmit values and ways of thinking, and that is what we wanted to do with you this week,” Minister Tonelli said.
PHOTO: HE Isabelle Picco, Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Valerie Ackerman, first President of the Women’s National Basketball Association; Sarah Fitz-Gerald, five-time world squash champion; Ashley Bernard, Founder of the Tournament of Champions Women’s Squash. Photo: DR
Ambassador Isabelle Picco, Permanent Representative to the UN, was invited to present the topic of the Role of Sport for Development and Peace in the UN Agenda, during the Fifth Tournament of Champions Women’s Leadership Award Programme on January 23. Many top athletes were present.
In her speech, the Ambassador recalled that the first General Assembly resolution in the field of sport was adopted almost 25 years ago. She added that the Assembly adopts a resolution every two years on the importance of the Olympic ideal, which this year at the Olympic Games in PyeongChang, Republic of Korea, takes on its full significance.
She highlighted the work of the Member States, UN Agencies and Programmes, as well as that of the International Olympic Committee, promoting the development of important cooperation activities with the United Nations system.
The benefits of this event were donated to the Women’s Sports Foundation, created in 1974 by Billie Jean King, a true visionary, whose unwavering commitment is now paying off. The Tournament of Champions” was established in 1993 and is now held every January in the heart of Grand Central Station.
On Wednesday, Julien Marcilly, Chief Economist at Coface, will deliver the essential content from the 22nd Coface Annual Country Risk Conference, which was held in Paris on January 23, in the presence of a thousand economists, entrepreneurs, bankers and academics.
The goal of the yearly event is to focus on the evolution of country risk throughout world and help those involved in international trade – whether CEOs, commercial directors or credit managers – to define an efficient business development or investment strategy and to take informed decisions regarding risk in their home country or abroad.
The Coface Group is a world leader in credit insurance, contributing daily to the development of 35,000 companies in nearly 200 countries. A subsidiary of Natixis, BPCE’s financing, management and financial services bank, Coface offers companies the reliability of the second largest French banking group.
To discuss global economic trends and issues facing the world economy in 2018, a breakfast will be held at the Salon Bellevue at Café de Paris from 8:15 am to 10 am. Few spots remain, to register contact: info@meb.mc.
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Monaco’s most important annual feast day, Saint Devote, started on Friday, January 26, with the annual burning of the boat outside the church bearing the name of the Principality’s patron saint following the religious service attended by Prince Albert and Princess Charlene.
A large crowd watched the Prince set fire to the boat representing the small craft on which the body of the 19-year-old virgin saint arrived in Monaco in the very early fourteenth century, during a period in which the Christian church was being persecuted by the Romans in Corsica under the local governor, Diocletian.
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
The young Christian had died a martyr in her homeland, according to local legend, and fellow Christians had put her body into a small boat hoping that she might receive a Christian burial in North Africa. However, a storm brought the craft to Monaco, to be welcomed by a small community of Christians.
Prince Louis II is credited with having started the modern tradition of the burning of the boat by setting it alight with his own hands in 1924.
Celebrations continued on Saturday, January 27, with a pontifical mass and the ceremonial welcoming of the saint’s relics at Monaco’s Cathedral.
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
Ste Devote 2018. Facebook: Palais Princier de Monaco
