Italy

By VT By Claudio Resta for VT Italy I have no leaks for you about it but it’s just a brainwave of mine, a sort of foresight, or if you prefer an exercise of logic. Who is the real enemy of Russia? Ukraine perhaps is the answer for many. Not for me.Ukraine for me is just a teenage country on a train of building its identity. A country fighting to get more freedom and independence from its bulky neighbor. After all most Ukrainian are just ones of the many in the World fooled by the American Dream, by Hollywood misrepresentation of reality as Chomsky taught us. They are not basically enemies of Russia. The reason is very simple, but please, don’t tell Ukrainians that: the unspeakable truth is that they are basically Russians! Khrushchev, one of the most import...

Tom Kington, Rome Wednesday October 14 2020, 12.01am, The Times Immigrants benefit Italy by €500 million a year, a study has found, boosting claims that the nation needs more foreign workers. The Leone Moressa Foundation compared the taxes paid by the 5.26 million migrants in Italy with the total cost of hosting them. It found that the expense of sending them to schools, treating them in hospitals and housing them in council homes was half a billion euros less than the annual taxes they pay. Monia Giovannetti, vice-president of ASGI, an Italian association that promotes legal rights for migrants, said that such research was useful because Italians did not see this side of the social contributions. “They only see foreigners as people who exploit services and benefits as oppose...