AGI – The meeting ‘The value of happiness Remind’ is underway at Palazzo Ferrajoli on the occasion of the International Day of Happiness. The aim of the initiative is to put this feeling among the priorities for the protection and well-being of people, where they live, work and transit, and to encourage a positive approach – more inclusive, fair and balanced – in relation to personal and professional growth with the intent of sustainable economic and social development.
Among the participants Maurizio Gasparri, president of the Forza Italia Group in the Senate, declared: “With Remind we have had many opportunities to meet on technical and economic issues. This moment dedicated to happiness and the well-being of the soul represents a great and new opportunity for reflection to enhance our vision linked to the integral development of the person. We cannot plan a sustainable and better world from an economic and environmental point of view without believing in positive feelings, in solid human values, anchored to our most authentic traditions. Physical well-being certainly based on levels of civil coexistence and within cities and territories that are increasingly liveable and equipped, with structures and public works capable of making our environments safe: but not only that. We want happy women and men, who realize their life plans and, at the same time, the most vulnerable categories, such as the elderly, children, the disabled or the sick, are adequately protected. An integral vision of well-being in society, in which everyone can contribute to realizing dreams and projects, respecting and valuing individuality according to principles of healthy education and good practices. Every person has the right to achieve their own happiness and fully live their aspirations and desires, new and better professional dimensions, adequate levels of free coexistence.”
Also present at the meeting was Tommaso Foti, President of the Brothers of Italy Group in the Chamber. “We must think – he declared – that we have a Nation, a Homeland, which mainly has an ancient housing stock, and above all in this area we must hypothesize urban regeneration projects that combine what is a lower emission of Co2 into the atmosphere, however, also with respect to the possibility of having green spaces; therefore we need to rethink the cities a little with respect to a criterion which was only to expand the city well beyond the traditional boundaries, there are cities which have even quadrupled the their extension compared to the end of the war, we must also perhaps realize that if we have to consume less land, rather than thinking about extending ourselves horizontally, we must also overcome an old legacy that leads us to traditionally be suspicious of vertical constructions, and instead even those they can be a solution, when however they do not become clusters of vertical constructions, but become vertical constructions in a cluster of services that can make the person always and in any case at the center of the development of that area, of that zone, of those functions that we to locate in the area”.