Il Bel Paese visto da fuori

“The mayor of a popular Italian ski resort is clamping down on day-trippers after the town was suddenly overwhelmed by 260 buses bringing more than 10,000 visitors from Naples and the surrounding Campania region, lured by a TikTok star and cheap tickets”. Fonte: The Guardian Autore: Angela Giuffrida Link: Italian town clamps down after TikTok […]

“For two summers during high school, instead of joining her classmates at the beach, Noura Ghazoui had an internship at the town hall of her hometown, Borghetto Santo Spirito, on the Ligurian coast”. Fonte: The New York Times Autore: Emma Bubola Link: Citizenship by Birthright? By Bloodline? Migration Is Complicating Both

“Giorgia Meloni has said she is under investigation in connection with Italy’s unexpected release and repatriation last week of a Libyan general who is wanted for war crimes by the international criminal court”. Fonte: The Guardian Autore: Angela Giuffrida Link: Giorgia Meloni says she is under investigation for repatriation of Libyan warlord

Fonte: The New York Times Link: The Perfect Cacio e Pepe Recipe, According to Science

“In 1937, when Benito Mussolini, then Italy’s fascist leader, opened Cinecittà, a sprawling film complex in Rome, his government adopted a variant of a slogan first ascribed to Lenin: “Cinematography is the most powerful weapon.” Fonte: The Economist Link: A TV dramatisation of Mussolini’s life inflames Italy

“When Italian financial power broker Mediobanca helped its longtime client Monte dei Paschi di Siena structure a make-or-break capital raising in 2022, little did it know it would ultimately become a takeover target for the former poster child of the country’s failed banking system”. Fonte: Financial Times Autore: Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli Link: Rome vs Milan: […]

“Conflicting signals are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense”. Fonte: The Economist Link: The Pope and Italy’s prime minister tussle over Donald Trump

“Now, European leaders are counting on Meloni — a “fantastic woman”, according to Trump — to persuade the US president to hold back on his threat to hit the EU with tariffs to force it to spend more on defence and American energy”. Fonte: Financial Times Autore: Amy Kazmin Link: A fantastic woman’: can Giorgia […]

“Aside from the US tech billionaires and the Maga crowd, Trump’s inauguration included a notable international contingent, from fringe far-right European politicians to an Irish cage fighter”. Fonte: The Guardian Autore: Oliver Holmes Link: Meloni, Murdoch, McGregor … Who flew in for Trump’s inauguration – and who got in the room?

“Conspicuously absent at the inauguration were some of the Futurism scholars and critics who had spent the better part of the past year preparing the show. They were dismissed by culture ministry officials this summer and replaced with an organizing committee including an architect, an archaeologist and an expert in Medieval art”. Fonte: The New […]