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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Lifting lockdown – a tragedy of the commons
The problem with the way the Italian government manages the transition from lockdown to a lower degree of emergency...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Police blockade in the Alps
An environmentalist social movement in the heart of Europe pits its wits against the corrosive model of large-scale...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Encouraging signs in Italy
Italy remains a laboratory of the far-right, with racism as its main fuel. But Afroitalians are beginning to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Marathon Man and 'our European Way of Life'
The migration debate ignores the political question of why hundreds or thousands of underage and adult people are...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy’s populist developments after the September vote
The 5SM has now won a key battle against the establishment while being an active member of it. The League has also gained.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The nature of Europe
Historically, were the five days it took the leaders of the EU member states to agree to the new bonds a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Covid-19 and the perception of freedom
Criticisms of the “Chinese solution” adopted by Italy have come from both sides, national and international.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Don't take music for granted – what I learnt from the Spanish singer Leiva
His music brings hope in times of Covid, but his message highlights the financial plight of this collapsing business.
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Published in: Migrant FuturesDid the COVID-19 pandemic revive nationalism?
It only took a sub-microscopic pathogen to confirm that, when a crisis strikes, it is the national framework that...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?National stereotypes in times of COVID-19: the ‘frugal four’ and the ‘irresponsible South’
When EU leaders discuss the coronavirus Recovery Fund at the upcoming meeting of the European Council on Friday,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Mothers and children in Italy
“Nobody at my husband’s company asked him how he was going to take care of his kids during the lockdown. It was...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?American riots, and when pacific protest became political terrorism in Italy
“Americans could experience terrorism of the most horrifying kind, given that the enemy is perceived as internal –...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionItalia, è ora di affrontare il tuo razzismo dilagante
Mentre gli italiani sostengono Black Lives Matter negli Stati Uniti, dobbiamo guardare più vicino a casa – alla...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionItaly, it’s time to confront your own rampant racism
While Italians support Black Lives Matter in the US, we must look closer to home – at our own language, colonial...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Montanelli: his statue and legacy is up for debate
The debate around the statue of a great Italian journalist – who as a fascist kept an African 12-year-old sex slave...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBlack lives should matter in the Mediterranean too
Malta’s fatal strategies to counter the growing number of refugees are part of the EU’s systematic racism and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Four invisible enemies in the first pandemic of a “datafied society”
COVID-19 lays bare the nuances of a society undergoing digital data transformation in nearly every field of human...
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Published in: Migrant FuturesThe Italian Chinatown that can teach us about resilience
The city of Prato shows how community resilience can counter both the spread of the virus and the spread of racism...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionEnglish ‘exceptionalism’ despite Italy’s warning
Seeing ourselves as others see us, Italian-style.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The European Union as seen from Bergamo: post-populism or renaissance?
In Bergamo and all the communities coping with this crisis, what seemed impossible is already happening now, for the...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job