Following on from Berlusconi’s recent re-positioning of Italy as a developing country, aligning itself not with the industrial giants of Britain, France and Germany in relation to the EU’s 20-20-20 Climate Change initiative but with countries like Poland (and a further 8 nations which have yet to be named), there is speculation* that Italy, troubled [...]
The Lega Nord have often been accused of xenophobia - a charge that is too general to hold. The party, which is playing a legislative blinder at the moment, bludgeoning through various reforms as if they personally had the support of the majority of Italians (rather than their actual 8% in both the lower and [...]
The Mayoral election in Bologna next year was always going to have a certain national relevance, despite the city’s relatively small size. The very real possibility that a centre-right candidate could be elected by this ‘red’ city would obviously be another blow to Walter Veltroni’s opposition PD party. The relevance of the race was bolstered [...]
Right-wing American commentator Edward Luttwak (author of Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, and controversial articles like ‘Give war a chance’ and the heavily criticised ‘President Apostate‘) gave a novel and clear-cut explanation of the credit crunch and its likely effects on the Italian public during a discussion last week on RAI3’s Ballarò.
Novel because, unlike most of [...]