With the slogan ‘make sure we don’t become like Venice‘, they do not mean that they sink into the water, but drown under mass tourism. With a tourist tax the city of Doges hopes to avert the disaster. Will that work and, if so, who will follow the Venetian example, Knack magazine inquires, rising issue…
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Migrants attack Salvini in ECHR
Illegal migrants who were refused by Italy for several days after being rescued in the Mediterranean (August 2018) have filed two legal petitions against their treatment a pro Deo lawyer representing their interest said. Diciotti migrants sue Italian leaders for damages https://t.co/JF6o9mWXAP pic.twitter.com/f62toiTzjb — The Local Italy (@TheLocalItaly) February 21, 2019 Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who…
MP laments EU “toxic for Italy”
Lega economy wizard Claudio Borghi said that Italy should consider leaving the European Union if the bloc does not change radically following European elections. in May. Quit EU if toxic after elections-Borghi. European elections 'last chance to change bloc' says League MP https://t.co/oykEkTMGTw — Ansa English News (@ansa_english) February 15, 2019 “I think that this is…
Italy PM Conte debates Future of Europe
MEPs will exchange views on the future of Europe with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Tuesday at 17.00. Waiting 4 Italy PM Conte in #EPlenary pic.twitter.com/E61XddtZsv — Anna van Densky (@AnnaVanDensky) February 12, 2019 AMENDED: Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte leaving the Europarliament studio where he had an interview with European Youth. He refuses…
France-Italy diplomatic clash over Yellow Vests
President Emmanuel Macron’s government recalled France ambassador to Rome Christian Masset on February 7 in an unprecedented act since World War II , saying it had enough with “repeated, baseless” attacks by Italian political leaders against France. DIRECT. La France dénonce des "attaques" sans "précédent" de l'Italie et rappelle son ambassadeur à Romehttps://t.co/vlXsFZStW7 pic.twitter.com/ySb2Loxs7K —…
Nigerian drug gang arrested in Sicily asylum
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said in a radio interview on RTL that the government will close the Cara asylum seeker centre in Mineo, Sicily, by the end of this year. “The bigger the centres are, the easier it is for criminals to infiltrate,” Salvini said. #Salvini: entro fine 2019 mi auguro chiusura anche del Cara…
Dutch refuse migrants from SeaWatch3
The Netherlands will refuse an Italian of the Minister of Interior Matteo Salvini requesting to accept 47 migrants on humanitarian ship that is being blocked from Italian ports, it said in an issued statement. https://twitter.com/AvSchoot/status/1089856708476915712 The Sea Watch 3, run by a German humanitarian group and flying a Dutch flag, recovered the migrants out of a…
Sea-Watch3 migrants awaiting for solution
The NGO rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3, a German NGO under Dutch flag, remains stranded some 1.4 miles from the port of Syracuse as Italian authorities continue to refuse to allow disembarkation of the ship’s passengers. In a statement, Sea Watch said that without a safe port for the “exhausted shipwrecked” migrants, the Sea-Watch 3 on 24th…
Strasbourg judges order Italy to pay Knox
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Italy the right to defence of Amanda Knox was violated when she was questioned in November 2007 in relation to the brutal murder of Meredith Kercher (21), the British flat-mate in Perugia (Italy). It ordered the Italian State to pay a total of over €18,000 in damages and legal…
Salvini refuses smuggled migrants reception
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has reiterated his refusal to NGO-run illegal migrant-rescue ships to dock. The League leader was commenting amid concern about 49 asylum seekers saved in the Mediterranean by German NGOs Sea-Watch and Sea Eye who have not been allocated a port of safety amid a standoff. 17th day at sea.On board of…
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