HeyJaredThe Week in Italy
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Migrant Kids in the Crosshairs (opens the original)
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This week’s top story concerns the sadly evergreen topic of ultra-nationalism in Italy. Last Sunday Giorgia Meloni attended the far-right Gioventù Nazionale conference in Rome, during which she announced a series of new policy proposals, clearly designed to reassure her increasingly nervous base that she is listening to their concer
Do Italians (still) support Ukraine? (opens the original)
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A spirit of contest is in the air. Over the past week, the prospect of elections began to manifest with greater urgency in Italy as parties across the spectrum laid out competing visions for the country’s future. From the rise of Roberto Vannacci’s Futuro Nazionale, which I covered last week, to former paparazzi king <a href="https://en.lasicilia.it/news/trends/3073560/fabrizio-corona-launches-a-new-movement-anti-system-liberal-for-individual-f
Who’s Afraid of Roberto Vannacci? (opens the original)
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Over the past few weeks, the Italian and international media alike have been obsessing over Roberto Vannacci, the far-right leader who is rapidly gaining in the polls, and who, depending on who you ask, is about to become the kingmaker of the next Italian government. Given the severity of the democratic crisis across Europe (manifest just last weekend in the neo-Na
Lessons From Ravenna (opens the original)
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Hello, it’s good to be back! I’m writing this update on the train back from Ravenna, where I’ve spent the past couple of days joining the celebrations to mark the 1500th anniversary of the death of the Ostrogoth king, Theodoric the Great. Outside of specialist bookshelves, Theodoric is hardly a household name. The story of his life and reign, however, is still felt closely in Ravenna, a
How to Tame a Wildfire (opens the original)
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If you’ve been following the news at all this week you will, I’m sure, be aware of the wildfires that are spreading across Southern Europe, and which have so far displaced around 500,000 people from their homes. The blazes, which have hit particularly hard in France and Spain, are out of control this year with the area around Bordeaux particularly affected. As the French President Emmanuel Macron put it earlier this week, this is France’s “worst domestic challenge since WWII.” In
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