2024
Capitalizing on anti-migrant sentiment throughout Europe and elsewhere, the far-right gain significant representation in governments throughout Europe. Marine Le Pen is elected as the first woman President of France. A Libyan-Sicilian artist screens her science fiction film in Messina, drawing huge crowds who are inspired by her vision of ‘Mediterranean futurism’.
2025
President Donald Trump travels to Paris as part of a migration reform summit that includes other newly elected anti-migrant leaders throughout Europe. A heatwave in central Europe leads to climate protests against EU leadership and far-right leaders who seek to overturn climate progress.
2026
In a rare political commentary, the Pope denounces climate inaction in the wake of cascading crop harvest failures in three of the world’s major breadbaskets. Amid flooding in south Asia and fears of famine amid droughts and food supply chain disruptions, the UN mobilizes significant resources to climate vulnerable communities. The crisis results in EU-imposed austerity measures to combat ‘climate inflation’, which disproportionately impact the economies of Eastern and Southern European countries. This does not deter the Sicilian mayor, as they inaugurate a construction of a cable ferry project that will link the island to the Italian mainland via Calabria. Meanwhile, North African nation-states on the Mediterranean, begin to initiate high-level strategic talks with the Sicilian Government, as climate migration forecasts project a looming crisis.
2027
The Sicilian government completes the cable ferry project, linking the island to Calabria, but the project is condemned as a waste of resources, as the local economy is stifled by EU austerity measures. The Sicilian government enters an informal regional cooperation to share resources and plan for climate migration. After a screening of her Mediterranean Futurism film, Amal is approached by government officials to elaborate on her vision for regional governance.
2028
Amid a cataclysmic drought in sub-Saharan Africa, EU member states coordinate to ratify the strictest migration policy in the organizations’ history. Illegal migration intensifies in Sicily and southern Europe, but the Sicilian government’s refusal to commit more resources to enforcement and statements by public officials signaling a need to welcome more refugees, illustrates a growing rift between Sicily and the EU. Amal’s film, is scree
2030
Disillusioned with EU austerity measures, an increasingly authoritarian anti-migrant Europe abetted by Italy, Sicily signs the Treaty of Bardo, serving as a founding member of the Alleanza Del Mediterraneao (AM).Citing the artist Amal’s Mediterranean Futurism film as inspiration, the member states which include Morocco, Andalucia, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Corsica, Mallorca, Crete and Greece. The President of the EU commission certifies Sicily’s secession from Europe, an agreement which includes a significant transfer of cash and expertise to the fledgling regional bloc as they set out to deal with the EU’s migrant problem by welcoming all climate refugees. In December, the first Assembly of the AM occurs in Tunisia, welcoming 30 councilors who represent specific regions rather than nation-states. Their first official acts are the unilateral expropriation of capital assets to the AM, the purchase of capital assets and building materials from the Arab and Sino Blocs, and the designation of Amal as the Cicero, a symbolic role to unify the nascent state.
2031
After months of comprehensive debate, the multi-phase Mediterranean Transformation Plan is ratified, which includes the foundation of a Mediterranean Central Bank, low-energy digital wallets for every citizen and a new currency called MeDinar. The AM initiates the mass mobilization of its citizens for construction projects which include rail network, desalination plants, solar farms, and wave power plants, assisted by EU-imported experts.
2032
Naval assets are refurbished as ferries for the transport of goods and citizens across the regional alliance borders.
2035
The Geothermal Power plant in Sicily opens. The undersea data centre transitions from diesel generators and grid power to geothermal. The North African Rail network has been finalized.
2040
The Sahara Solar Array is completed.
2041
The AM Council meets to commemorate the 10th year anniversary of Alliance in Museo of Bardo in Tunis. While Cicero Amal is delivering her remarks, which enumerate the progress the bloc has made toward realizing the Mediterranean Transformation Plan, a terrorist organization known as Charybdis initiates a coordinated attack on eight of the bloc’s undersea data centers using Scyla-class marine drones. The attack by the EU separatists, who were disillusioned by the expropriation of their wealth by the AM, results in a significant disruption as the targeted data centers provided crucial storage and services for the Central Mediterranean Bank. In what cultural commentators remark as the “summer of love”, AM citizens weather the significant logistical disruptions by sharing resources and adopting a spirit of collectivity and mutual care. Amal’s calls for ‘generosity’ result in a gift economy that sustains the AM through the worst period of its brief history. By the end of the summer, the AM has repaired the undersea cables and restored the banking ledgers backed up on magnetic tape beneath the Sahara Array vault. Charbydis members flee to the Baltic Bloc, in a bid to avoid extradition.
2045
Having realized their development and construction goals, The AM Council implements transitional policies toward devolution, as it prepares to transition from a Command Economy to something more agency-oriented.
2051
Cicero Amal inaugurates the bicentennial of the AM by announcing the completion of the Mediterranean Transformation Plan. Realization of full self-sufficiency (energy, food, housing, water, transport) in AM bloc regions.
- What is solar capacity for Saharan Array and what happens to excess?
- How do you build all this infrastructure?
- Is Europe wealthy enough for this cash transfer?
- How are we exporting electricity?
- How does the MedAlliance narrative disrupt state-based?
- How did the nation-state let this region go?
- Where is the Capitol?
- Why did some parts of the Mediterranean not join
- Why is this philosophically different from EU?
10.Why not including Middle East & LatAm regions?
11.How did they get to this pluralist setup?
12.Pluralism: co-existence or tolerance? - What made the Mediterranean Alliance attractive place to migrate?
- What is the cause of EU southbound migration (social, climactic)?
- What are the institutions? How did it come to be?
- What are the magic beans?
- What does the cable ferry do?
- How is the AM formed? What lead to it?
- Who is part of it?
- How are people living there, what does life look like for them? What does dating look like?
- Is there religion?
- How do people feed themselves? How do people meet their material, social, emotional needs?
- Who is no longer there?
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