Economic ethics and corporate responsibility as a means to face the challenge of the economic recession and to return confidence in public sphere officials and in the quality of public goods and services to consumers and citizens. Here's the recipe for a sounder economic and institutional development according to Ginger Lew, former President of NASDAQ.

"Ethics and merit", the key values of the Oscar Pomilio Forum 2013 edition, an event promoted by Pomilio Blumm, the integrated communication agency which brought together prominent personalities in the field of finance, law, science and art at the Aurum in Pescara.

Italy and ethics: a delicate relationship according to Raffaele Squitieri, President of the Italian Corte dei Conti (Court of Auditors), who detects a "decline of ethical tension" in Italy and stresses the need to rediscover and reinforce the founding principles of the Institutions of our country.

Interviewed by CNN Italy, the President of Pomilio Blumm reflects on the concept of transparency, in light of the changed perception of the final target that is not anymore identified in the consumer, but in the citizen and its values.

President of the Consortium for the Protection of the wines of Abruzzo, Tonino Verna confirms the importance of ethical values as the basis of all stages of the winemaking process, from the countryside to the cellar and then, to the commercialization of the product.

A relationship based on mutual trust between citizens and institutions – a fundamental element for any democracy – can only be created in a transparent, non-corrupt political system, based on virtues such as honesty, courage and respect: this is the opinion by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, niece of John Fitzgerald and daughter of Robert.