It doesn’t seem to me that Giorgia Meloni is in any position to tell others what a family is or is not. Please read this Wikipedia entry on her. Is this woman really a paragon of virtue herself? Is this fascist really in a position to be able to deny gays the right to their own happiness? These hypocritical politicians really are something else! – © Mark Alexander
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Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Sunday, June 18, 2023
Italy's Right-wing Government Targets Another Enemy | Focus on Europe
It doesn’t seem to me that Giorgia Meloni is in any position to tell others what a family is or is not. Please read this Wikipedia entry on her. Is this woman really a paragon of virtue herself? Is this fascist really in a position to be able to deny gays the right to their own happiness? These hypocritical politicians really are something else! – © Mark Alexander
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Death Toll Mounts in Italy’s Worst Flooding for 100 Years
THE GUARDIAN: Older and disabled people trapped in homes as rescuers battle harsh conditions in Emilia-Romagna region
Older and disabled people were trapped in their homes as rescuers worked under pounding rain throughout the night to save people in the most catastrophic flooding to affect Italy in 100 years.
The floods in the northern Emilia-Romagna region have claimed 13 lives as of Thursday evening. An estimated 20,000 have been left homeless in a disaster that caused 23 rivers to burst their banks and 280 landslides, engulfing 41 cities and towns.
Roads remained blocked, including the A1, after a landslide in Sasso Marconi on Thursday afternoon, and trains were cancelled or disrupted.
Among the dead were an elderly couple trapped inside their home in Cava, a hamlet in the province of Forlì-Cesena. “We heard their cries for help,” a neighbour told Il Messaggero newspaper. “We tried to get them out, but it was useless.” With videos » | Angela Giuffrida in Rome | Thursday, May 18, 2023
Older and disabled people were trapped in their homes as rescuers worked under pounding rain throughout the night to save people in the most catastrophic flooding to affect Italy in 100 years.
The floods in the northern Emilia-Romagna region have claimed 13 lives as of Thursday evening. An estimated 20,000 have been left homeless in a disaster that caused 23 rivers to burst their banks and 280 landslides, engulfing 41 cities and towns.
Roads remained blocked, including the A1, after a landslide in Sasso Marconi on Thursday afternoon, and trains were cancelled or disrupted.
Among the dead were an elderly couple trapped inside their home in Cava, a hamlet in the province of Forlì-Cesena. “We heard their cries for help,” a neighbour told Il Messaggero newspaper. “We tried to get them out, but it was useless.” With videos » | Angela Giuffrida in Rome | Thursday, May 18, 2023
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Mindestens acht Tote durch Flut in Norditalien
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Devastating floods in Italy claim lives and leave thousands homeless: Twenty-one rivers burst their banks after heavy storms across country cause landslides and submerge villages »
Friday, April 21, 2023
The Village of the Ugly | ARTE.tv Documentary
Apr 21, 2023 | “Ugliness is a virtue, beauty is slavery” This is the motto of the Ugly Club in the Italian village of Piobbico. Every year a festival of ugliness is held there where local residents reject the Italian cult of beauty.
The Village of the Ugly | ARTE.tv Documentary
Available until the 16/04/2024
The Village of the Ugly | ARTE.tv Documentary
Available until the 16/04/2024
Monday, April 03, 2023
Gay Couples Fear Italy's Right-wing Alliance | Focus on Europe
Sunday, December 11, 2022
Friend of Giorgia Meloni among Three Dead in Rome Coffee Shop Shooting
THE GUARDIAN: Suspect, 57, opens fire on a meeting of apartment block residents but police yet to comment on motive
A man who opened fire on a meeting of apartment block residents in a coffee shop in northern Rome has killed three people, including a friend of the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni.
The suspect, 57, had been in a series of disputes with the residents’ association, a witness told Italy’s Rai News.
“He came into the room, closed the door and shouted ’I’ll kill you all’ and then started to shoot,” Italian news agency Ansa quoted another witness as saying. Residents managed to overpower and disarm him before police arrived.
Three other people were wounded in the shooting, with at least one of them suffering serious injuries. » | Oliver Holmes and agencies | Sunday, December 11, 2022
A man who opened fire on a meeting of apartment block residents in a coffee shop in northern Rome has killed three people, including a friend of the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni.
The suspect, 57, had been in a series of disputes with the residents’ association, a witness told Italy’s Rai News.
“He came into the room, closed the door and shouted ’I’ll kill you all’ and then started to shoot,” Italian news agency Ansa quoted another witness as saying. Residents managed to overpower and disarm him before police arrived.
Three other people were wounded in the shooting, with at least one of them suffering serious injuries. » | Oliver Holmes and agencies | Sunday, December 11, 2022
Sunday, November 06, 2022
Italy's Hard Line on Migration Leaves Hundreds Stranded in Mediterranean | DW News
Tuesday, November 01, 2022
Giorgia Meloni Appoints Minister Once Pictured Wearing Nazi Armband
THE GUARDIAN: Brothers of Italy politician Galeazzo Bignami says he feels ‘profound shame’ over wearing swastika in 2005
After the photo initially emerged in the press in 2016, Bignami shrugged the gesture off as a bit of ‘lighthearted’ fun.
A Brothers of Italy politician who was once photographed wearing a Nazi swastika armband is among the junior ministers appointed in Giorgia Meloni’s government.
Galeazzo Bignami, named undersecretary at the infrastructure ministry, caused controversy after a photograph of him wearing the armband was published by an Italian newspaper in 2016. The photo dated back to his stag party in 2005, and after it initially emerged in the press he shrugged the gesture off as a bit of “lighthearted” fun.
Bignami, a 47-year-old lawyer, secured a second term in parliament in the late September general election won by a coalition led by Meloni’s Brothers of Italy – a party that traces its origins back to the neofascist Italian Social Movement (MSI).
On Monday Bignami said he felt “profound shame” over the Nazi armband photo while firmly condemning “any form of totalitarianism” and describing nazism as “the absolute evil”. » | Angela Giuffrida in Rome | Tuesday, November 1, 2022
A Brothers of Italy politician who was once photographed wearing a Nazi swastika armband is among the junior ministers appointed in Giorgia Meloni’s government.
Galeazzo Bignami, named undersecretary at the infrastructure ministry, caused controversy after a photograph of him wearing the armband was published by an Italian newspaper in 2016. The photo dated back to his stag party in 2005, and after it initially emerged in the press he shrugged the gesture off as a bit of “lighthearted” fun.
Bignami, a 47-year-old lawyer, secured a second term in parliament in the late September general election won by a coalition led by Meloni’s Brothers of Italy – a party that traces its origins back to the neofascist Italian Social Movement (MSI).
On Monday Bignami said he felt “profound shame” over the Nazi armband photo while firmly condemning “any form of totalitarianism” and describing nazism as “the absolute evil”. » | Angela Giuffrida in Rome | Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Italy’s Far Right Triumphs in Election
FOREIGN POLICY: Giorgia Meloni is expected to head the country’s most right-wing government since World War II.
Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party, speaks at a press conference at the party electoral headquarters in Rome overnight on Sept. 26. ANTONIO MASIELLO/GETTY IMAGES
Far-right firebrand Giorgia Meloni is set to lead Italy after her party, Brothers of Italy, received the most votes in elections on Sunday. She is expected to head the country’s most right-wing government since the era of fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
Brothers of Italy ultimately won 26 percent of votes—six times more than it received in 2018—while the right-wing coalition it was part of secured 44 percent. But the election was marked by record-low voter turnout, with just 64 percent of people participating, almost a 10 percent drop compared to the last general election.
Meloni represents the “the last, probably, available option for Italians to voice their discomfort with the political establishment and with the way the economy has been managed,” said Carlo Bastasin, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Low turnout, he added, “is another form of Italians’ discomfort with the political situation.”
Since entering politics, Meloni has experienced a meteoric rise to the top, as Giorgio Ghiglione wrote in Foreign Policy in August. Her success was largely built on “the credibility crisis of her adversaries on the left and her allies on the right, who have all become increasingly inconsistent in the eyes of the public,” he wrote.
Despite her efforts to soften her position ahead of the election, Meloni is known for her hard-line stances, famously proclaiming: “Yes to the natural family. No to the LGBT lobby. Yes to sexual identity. No to the ideology of gender.” On immigration, she has pushed for a Mediterranean “naval blockade” and previously declared that Italy’s existing policies could transform it into the “refugee camp of Europe.” » | Christina Lu, a reporter at Foreign Policy | Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Far-right firebrand Giorgia Meloni is set to lead Italy after her party, Brothers of Italy, received the most votes in elections on Sunday. She is expected to head the country’s most right-wing government since the era of fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
Brothers of Italy ultimately won 26 percent of votes—six times more than it received in 2018—while the right-wing coalition it was part of secured 44 percent. But the election was marked by record-low voter turnout, with just 64 percent of people participating, almost a 10 percent drop compared to the last general election.
Meloni represents the “the last, probably, available option for Italians to voice their discomfort with the political establishment and with the way the economy has been managed,” said Carlo Bastasin, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Low turnout, he added, “is another form of Italians’ discomfort with the political situation.”
Since entering politics, Meloni has experienced a meteoric rise to the top, as Giorgio Ghiglione wrote in Foreign Policy in August. Her success was largely built on “the credibility crisis of her adversaries on the left and her allies on the right, who have all become increasingly inconsistent in the eyes of the public,” he wrote.
Despite her efforts to soften her position ahead of the election, Meloni is known for her hard-line stances, famously proclaiming: “Yes to the natural family. No to the LGBT lobby. Yes to sexual identity. No to the ideology of gender.” On immigration, she has pushed for a Mediterranean “naval blockade” and previously declared that Italy’s existing policies could transform it into the “refugee camp of Europe.” » | Christina Lu, a reporter at Foreign Policy | Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Monday, September 26, 2022
Fascism Returns in Italy: Giorgia Meloni Claims Victory, Allied with Right-wing Parties
Saturday, September 24, 2022
Italian Voters Appear Ready to Turn a Page for Europe
THE NEW YORK TIMES: With the hard-right candidate Giorgia Meloni ahead before Sunday’s election, Italy could get its first leader whose party traces its roots to the wreckage of Fascism.
Supporters of Giorgia Meloni at a joint rally on Thursday for the Brothers of Italy, League and Forza Italia parties in Rome. | Andreas Solaro/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
ROME — Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s hard-right leader, resents having to talk about Fascism. She has publicly, and in multiple languages, said that the Italian right has “handed Fascism over to history for decades now.” She argued that “the problem with Fascism in Italy always begins with the electoral campaign,” when the Italian left, she said, wheels out “the black wave” to smear its opponents.
But none of that matters now, she insisted in an interview this month, because Italians do not care. “Italians don’t believe anymore in this garbage,” she said with a shrug.
Ms. Meloni may be proved right on Sunday, when she is expected to be the top vote-getter in Italian elections, a breakthrough far-right parties in Europe have anticipated for decades.
More than 70 years after Nazis and Fascists nearly destroyed Europe, formerly taboo parties with Nazi or Fascist heritages that were long marginalized have elbowed their way into the mainstream. Some are even winning. A page of European history seems to be turning.
Last week, a hard-right group founded by neo-Nazis and skinheads became the largest party in Sweden’s likely governing coalition. The far-right leader Marine Le Pen — for a second consecutive time — reached the final round of French presidential elections this year.
But it is Italy, the birthplace of Fascism, that looks likely to be led not only by its first female prime minister in Ms. Meloni but the first Italian leader whose party can trace its roots back to the wreckage of Italian Fascism. » | Jason Horowitz | Saturday, September 24, 2022
Related articles: En français. Auf Deutsch. In English.
ROME — Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s hard-right leader, resents having to talk about Fascism. She has publicly, and in multiple languages, said that the Italian right has “handed Fascism over to history for decades now.” She argued that “the problem with Fascism in Italy always begins with the electoral campaign,” when the Italian left, she said, wheels out “the black wave” to smear its opponents.
But none of that matters now, she insisted in an interview this month, because Italians do not care. “Italians don’t believe anymore in this garbage,” she said with a shrug.
Ms. Meloni may be proved right on Sunday, when she is expected to be the top vote-getter in Italian elections, a breakthrough far-right parties in Europe have anticipated for decades.
More than 70 years after Nazis and Fascists nearly destroyed Europe, formerly taboo parties with Nazi or Fascist heritages that were long marginalized have elbowed their way into the mainstream. Some are even winning. A page of European history seems to be turning.
Last week, a hard-right group founded by neo-Nazis and skinheads became the largest party in Sweden’s likely governing coalition. The far-right leader Marine Le Pen — for a second consecutive time — reached the final round of French presidential elections this year.
But it is Italy, the birthplace of Fascism, that looks likely to be led not only by its first female prime minister in Ms. Meloni but the first Italian leader whose party can trace its roots back to the wreckage of Italian Fascism. » | Jason Horowitz | Saturday, September 24, 2022
Related articles: En français. Auf Deutsch. In English.
Friday, September 23, 2022
Berlusconi Claims Russians ‘Pushed’ Putin into Ukraine War
THE GUARDIAN: Italian former PM’s party is part of coalition expected to win Sunday’s general election
The 85-year-old billionaire at the centre-right rally in Rome on 22 September. Berlusconi has long been close with the Russian president. Photograph: Giuseppe Lami/EPA
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s three-time former prime minister, whose party is forecast to return to government after the general election on Sunday, has sparked a row after defending the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, over the war in Ukraine.
The 85-year-old billionaire told Italian TV that Putin, an old friend of his, was pushed to invad Ukraine by the Russian people and by ministers who wanted Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s administration replaced with “decent people”.
Berlusconi, who has condemned the war, told the chatshow Porta a Porta that separatists had gone to Moscow and told the media that Ukraine’s attacks had caused 16,000 deaths and that Putin was doing nothing to defend them. » | Angela Giuffrida in Rome | Friday, September 23, 2022
Is it true that this dude has already been embalmed? – Mark
Berlusconi draws a backlash for appearing to defend Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. »
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s three-time former prime minister, whose party is forecast to return to government after the general election on Sunday, has sparked a row after defending the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, over the war in Ukraine.
The 85-year-old billionaire told Italian TV that Putin, an old friend of his, was pushed to invad Ukraine by the Russian people and by ministers who wanted Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s administration replaced with “decent people”.
Berlusconi, who has condemned the war, told the chatshow Porta a Porta that separatists had gone to Moscow and told the media that Ukraine’s attacks had caused 16,000 deaths and that Putin was doing nothing to defend them. » | Angela Giuffrida in Rome | Friday, September 23, 2022
Is it true that this dude has already been embalmed? – Mark
Berlusconi draws a backlash for appearing to defend Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. »
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
‘We’ve Tried Them All, Except Meloni’: Far-right Leader Tipped to Become Italy’s First Female PM
FRANCE 24: As yet unaffected by the slings and arrows of governing, Giorgia Meloni is poised to carry her hard-right Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia) party to victory in Italy’s general election on September 25, putting her in the running to become the country’s first female prime minister. FRANCE 24 reports from Italy’s economic capital Milan, where the new darling of the right has eclipsed former champions of the cause Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi.
Locals enjoying a late-afternoon stroll, couples lapping at fast-melting ice cream cones and tourists angling for the best shot of Milan’s imposing Gothic cathedral – just another Sunday in piazza Duomo, one might say, were it not for the flag-waving crowd gathered around a fiery orator with a thick Roman accent.
The speaker, Giorgia Meloni, is the leader of Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia or FdI), a far-right outfit that has emerged from its south-central power base to become a dominant force all the way up to the Alps. At 45, she is the favourite to become Italy’s first female prime minister after the country’s general election on September 25.
Pollsters predict Meloni’s party will emerge as Italy’s largest, taking a quarter of the vote – a more than fivefold increase from its score at the last general election in 2018. She is set to leapfrog her better-known right-wing allies Matteo Salvini and the seemingly eternal Silvio Berlusconi, easily surpassing their combined tallies. » | Benjamin Dodman | Wednesday, September 14, 2022
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Locals enjoying a late-afternoon stroll, couples lapping at fast-melting ice cream cones and tourists angling for the best shot of Milan’s imposing Gothic cathedral – just another Sunday in piazza Duomo, one might say, were it not for the flag-waving crowd gathered around a fiery orator with a thick Roman accent.
The speaker, Giorgia Meloni, is the leader of Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia or FdI), a far-right outfit that has emerged from its south-central power base to become a dominant force all the way up to the Alps. At 45, she is the favourite to become Italy’s first female prime minister after the country’s general election on September 25.
Pollsters predict Meloni’s party will emerge as Italy’s largest, taking a quarter of the vote – a more than fivefold increase from its score at the last general election in 2018. She is set to leapfrog her better-known right-wing allies Matteo Salvini and the seemingly eternal Silvio Berlusconi, easily surpassing their combined tallies. » | Benjamin Dodman | Wednesday, September 14, 2022
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Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Friday, August 12, 2022
Critically Low Water Levels on Lake Garda
Tuesday, August 02, 2022
The Guardian View on the Warming of the Alps: A Challenge for Tourism
THE GUARDIAN – EDITORIAL: Higher temperatures mean less snow snow and ice, more rockfalls and more fatalities on Europe’s overcrowded mountains. This cannot go on
The collision between industrial tourism and the climate crisis is destroying some of the very environments that have attracted so many to the high mountains in the first place.’ Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images
The Victorian writer and mountaineer Leslie Stephen – the father of Virginia Woolf – called the Alps “the playground of Europe”. And so they have been, in winter and summer alike, for many generations. But with excessive warming now placing some of the Alps’ most iconic summits out of bounds, for how much longer can the freedom of Europe’s playground continue?
The basic problem is the warming of the Alps. Snowfall this past winter – especially in the southern Alps – was down by two-thirds from what was once considered normal. The loss of snowmelt is a direct cause of this summer’s brutal drought in the Po valley. Last month, Swiss scientists found that weather balloons were having to rise to 5,184 metres (over 17,000ft), well above the very highest peaks, before they finally reached freezing point. » | Editorial | Monday, August 1, 2022
The Victorian writer and mountaineer Leslie Stephen – the father of Virginia Woolf – called the Alps “the playground of Europe”. And so they have been, in winter and summer alike, for many generations. But with excessive warming now placing some of the Alps’ most iconic summits out of bounds, for how much longer can the freedom of Europe’s playground continue?
The basic problem is the warming of the Alps. Snowfall this past winter – especially in the southern Alps – was down by two-thirds from what was once considered normal. The loss of snowmelt is a direct cause of this summer’s brutal drought in the Po valley. Last month, Swiss scientists found that weather balloons were having to rise to 5,184 metres (over 17,000ft), well above the very highest peaks, before they finally reached freezing point. » | Editorial | Monday, August 1, 2022
Saturday, July 23, 2022
Would You Pay 70 Dollars for This Ice Cream? | DW Food
Jul 23, 2022 The Mokambo Gelateria in the Italian town of Ruvo di Puglia makes ice cream that’s a cut above the ordinary. ‘The King’s Scepter’ is crafted by hand using premium ingredients – and one scoop will set you back 70 euros.
Report: Jana Oertel
Camera: Giancarlo Doronzo
Edit: Barbara Gebler
Report: Jana Oertel
Camera: Giancarlo Doronzo
Edit: Barbara Gebler
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Political Turmoil in Italy - Draghi Resigns after Coalition Falls Apart | DW News
Jul 21, 2022 Italy's President has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi after a week-long attempt to unite his crumbling coalition failed.
Draghi went to Sergio Mattarella's office this morning to offer his resignation -- for the second time in a week. The president accepted but asked Draghi to stay on as caretaker until a replacement can be found. Earlier in parliament, Draghi told lawmakers he had tried and failed to gain the necessary support he needed to continue in the job.
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Draghi went to Sergio Mattarella's office this morning to offer his resignation -- for the second time in a week. The president accepted but asked Draghi to stay on as caretaker until a replacement can be found. Earlier in parliament, Draghi told lawmakers he had tried and failed to gain the necessary support he needed to continue in the job.
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