Il Bel Paese visto da fuori

“An 11-year-old girl, wearing a simple life vest and clinging to a pair of tyre tubes, has been rescued off the Italian island of Lampedusa, telling rescuers she had spent three days at sea after a shipwreck that is feared to have killed more than 40 people”. Fonte: The Guardian Autore: Ashifa Kassam Link: Girl, […]

“Who do you call if you want to speak to Europe? If you’re Elon Musk — the world’s richest man and a key adviser to United States President-elect Donald Trump — the number you dial belongs to Giorgia Meloni”. Fonte: Politico Link: Giorgia Meloni

Fonte: Fortune Autore: Judith Renoult Link: Brain drain in Italy: Young talent are fleeing the country due to low pay and lack of recognition

“Unless Donald Trump decides to communicate with European allies solely in the acerbic language of tariffs, he will have to address the famous question usually attributed to Henry Kissinger: Who do I call when I want to talk to Europe?” Fonte: The New York Times Autore: Mattia Ferraresi Link: She Won Over Italy. Now She’s […]

“As a child growing up in Milan, Carlo Acutis collected stories of miracles. He wrote about the time when, in 1411, wine turned to blood in a castle chapel in Ludbreg, Croatia; of how, in 1630, a pastor in Canosio, Italy, saved his town from a flood by blessing the raging waters; of how, in […]

“John Elkann spent much of this past week in a role that has defined much of his adult life: playing peacemaker”. Fonte: The Wall Street Journal Autore: Stephen Wilmot e Ryan Felton Link: The Italian Scion Trying to Keep Jeep Maker Stellantis From Spiraling

“Generations of Italians have flocked to America in search of opportunity and enchantment. One recent arrival to New York, albeit only for a short trip in September, looked like she had hit upon both. Giorgia Meloni, the Italian prime minister, found herself feted in unique style at a glitzy ceremony on the sidelines of the […]

“It has probably been centuries since Romans have been so feverish about happenings at the Colosseum, and it is not because of the recent release of the Ridley Scott “Gladiator” sequel”. Fonte: The New York Times Autore: Elisabetta Povoledo Link: Gladiator for a Night at the Colosseum? Some Romans Are Up in Arms

“Cecchettin, 22, was stabbed more than 70 times before her body was wrapped in black plastic bags and dumped in a ditch close to a lake north of Venice in November last year. Her murder triggered protests across the country”. Fonte: The Guardian Autore: Angela Giuffrida Link: Man jailed for life for murder of university […]

“The employment disparity between northern and southern Italy is unmatched by any other EU nation. Even in 2023, Italy is the European country with the greatest regional disparities: while 79.6 per cent of inhabitants between 20 and 64 years of age work in the province of Bolzano, in Campania, Calabria and Sicily, the employed are […]