There’s an interesting campaign, launched by the European Women’s Lobby, called ‘50/50 No Modern European Democracy Without Gender Equality‘. The idea is to pressure political parties to put forward electoral lists that with a balanced number of male and female candidates for the next European Parliament elections in 2009, and to persuade Governments to correct [...]
The joke that was the decision to press charges against satirist Sabina Guzzanti - in poorer taste than any of Guzzanti’s ‘vulgar’ jabs at Italy’s ruling classes (Vatican included) - has been shelved by justice minister Angelino Alfano.
The Italian press, which in its own topsy-turvy way seems to take more offence at satirists like Guzzanti [...]
With the speed for which it is world-renowned, the Italian justice system is coming to terms with the words spoken by comedian/activist Sabina Guzzanti from the stage of Piazza Navonna during a protest staged on the 8th of July.
It appears that the Procura di Roma will ask the Minister for Justice Angelino Alfano (who was [...]