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As French President Macron started the process to pass a reform aiming at bringing retirement age from the current 62 to 64 years old, France dove into an outbreak of protests and mass demonstrations marking January and February with five general strikes and an uncountable amount of transport blockages by unions. The reform, aimed at making France economically credible in […]
Italian history has a new day to remember forever. Last January 16th the most wanted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested after 30 years on the run. A prominent member of Sicilian mob Cosa Nostra, Messina Denaro has been responsible for several kidnappings, brutal murders and terrorist attacks all across the country, especially in the late 80s and early […]
You would barely know it from the US media, but the European Union is currently in the midst of it’s worst-ever scandal. It all has to do with reports that we did see about the exploitation of foreign migrant workers who built the sports complex that housed the recent World Cup in Qatar. As Belgian newspaper Le Soir revealed last […]
When Ukrainian missiles, at the beginning mistakenly identified as Russian, hit Polish (NATO) territory, leaders throughout the have started thinking about an end to the Russian war before it gets even more out of hand. The US stance on a negotiated end to the conflict seems to have shifted slightly after the rockets, as it did with most Western leaders, […]
Italy’s new right-wing prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has appointed her cabinet and immediately they are faced with problem. Not from the opposition, whose divisions and confusion helps indeed Meloni’s power, but from the gas crisis and from her own allies. Energy Crisis and the need of France Italy, like all the countries in Europe, is in the middle of an […]
Is fascism back to Italy? Is Italy going towards its own Trump age? Are civil rights in danger in Italy? Those are the questions now spreading all around the world as Giorgia Meloni, an Italian far-right politician, won Italy’s last elections on September 25th, those which have been the most covered by the international press since at least twenty years […]
Once all part of the socialist Yugoslavia, countries in the Balkans are so different from one another that you feel the changes instantly as you travel through them. I did just that this summer, crossing the border between Italy and Slovenia, then headed to Croatia and eventually down to Bosnia-Herzegovina. The more southward you go, the poorer those countries are, […]
Since Italy opened up after the pandemic, newspapers are full of interviews with prominent entrepreneurs and restaurateurs claiming a shortage of young people willing to work and their over-expectation of salary, vacations and days off. This wave of criticism towards Gen Z has tended to portray the latter as a bunch of slackers and idlers, who prefer to benefit from […]
There’s one thing in Europe that has been able to unite people across the countries in the old continent in a much more effective way than the political union has ever done. That’s Erasmus, a student exchange program that allows university students to spend a long period in a foreign country’s Athenaeum, partially financed by the European Union. Born in […]
The Odessa Journal is the major English-language newspaper in Southern Ukraine, founded in early 2020 by editor Ugo Poletti, an Italian entrepreneur whose aim, as stated on their website, is to cover “culture, economy and historical amenities in Odessa”, the biggest urban area and trading port across the Ukrainian seaside. But the war, with its overwhelming energy, has cast apart […]