Day: 4 March 2018

National Council President Stephane Valeri received Minister of State Serge Telle in a first official meeting to discuss important matters in the context of the relationship between the Government and the elected assembly.

It comes just a few days after the first session of the newly elected National Council.

The absolute priority for the new majority is the question of housing. Mr Valeri and Mr Telle will very soon discuss the subject in a full special assembly of Council members, meeting in a Plenary Study Session.

Among the projects on the agenda will be the potential for housing for Monegasques, including in a new commercial centre in Fontvieille. The provision of accommodation for Monegasques in all parts of the Principality is a major preoccupation for the new National Council.

Mr Valeri also asked that the National Council be kept fully informed, as an institutional partner, in every stage of the ongoing negotiations with the European Union.

The meeting, which lasted for more than an hour and a half, also touched on the question of the National Council’s vision for a public and pluralist television service, and on the opening of a debate on the monopoly of Monaco Telecom.

The film “Monaco and the War” was screened in the Princess Grace Theatre on Thursday night in the presence of Prince Albert.

“Monaco and the War” is a well-documented evocation of living conditions in the Principality between 1939 and 1945. The emotion of the various witnesses who appeared in the narrative, the quality of the editing and its symbolic significance make it a captivating testimony of the links between Monaco and this period in world history.

At the end of the screening, and in the presence of the Sovereign, several of those who appeared in the film were invited to take the stage of the theatre with their relatives for an emotional “family photo”.

Directed by journalist and writer Frédéric Laurent, more than four years of work went into making the film, which was co-produced by the Government’s Communication Department, the Society for the Management of Copyright (SOGEDA) and the Estate Administration of the Sovereign Prince.

It was first screened in January to teaching staff as well as to the association Pour le Devoir de Mémoire (For the Duty of Memory). It will also be broadcast on Monaco Info on Tuesday, May 1, at 7 pm.