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7Mar

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Italy

Historic Defeat for Social Democrats in Italian Election

NOVANEWS Right-wing parties benefit from anger over austerity, inequality By Marianne Arens World Socialist Web Site In the European Union’s fourth-largest country, amid mass poverty and unemployment and growing popular disaffection with the centre-left parties and their pseudo-left apologists, Sunday’s parliamentary election in Italy resulted in a historic defeat for the governing Democratic Party (PD) and a victory for the right-wing and extreme-right parties. Italy’s desperate levels of social distress—with youth unemployment at 30 percent—are largely the product of policies pursued by centre-left governments. While right-wing governments under Silvio Berlusconi were characterised by unrestrained corruption, the names of the centre-left prime ministers—Romano Prodi, Massimo ...

18Nov

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Italy, Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Anti-BDS Laws and Pro-Nazi Parliament: Zionism Is Winning in Italy

NOVANEWS Anti-BDS Laws and Pro-Israeli Parliament: Zionism Is Winning in Italy Italy’s anti-Fascist, anti-military occupation and revolutionary past is being overlooked by self-serving politicians, growingly beholden to the pressures of a burgeoning pro-Israel lobby. by Romana Rubeo and Ramzy Baroud Analysis — A proposed law at the Italian Parliament is set to punish the boycott of Israel. In the past, such an initiative would have been unthinkable. Alas, Italy, a country that had historic sympathies with the Palestinian cause has shifted its politics in a dramatic way in recent years. Most surprisingly, though, the Left is as implicated as the Right in the rush to please Israel, at the expense of Palestinian rights. The sad reality is this: Italy is moving to the Israeli...

26Sep

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Europe, Italy, Saudi Arabia

Italy Ramps Up Weapons Supplies to Saudi Arabia in Spite of EU Calls for Embargo

NOVANEWS Sputnik European countries such as Italy continue to increase arms exports to Saudi Arabia in spite of European Parliament resolutions calling for an embargo on sales to Riyadh in light of violations of human rights and international law in Yemen. A recent European Parliament resolution which calls for an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia is no deterrent to Italy, which continues to increase its arms sales to the Middle East despite concerns that the flow of weapons is contributing to instability there. Enrico Piovesana, an Italian journalist and director of the Center for Monitoring of Arms Expenditures (MILEX), told Sputnik Italiathat Italy’s exports have risen dramatically. “According to the most recent data, for 2016, income from arms exports doubled in comparison with th...

21Aug

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Europe, Italy

Anti-migrant boat crew arrested for alleged people trafficking in Cyprus

NOVANEWS © Defend Europe / YouTube The crew of an anti-migrant boat was arrested Wednesday in Turkish-controlled Northern Cyprus for allegedly smuggling 21 Sri Lankans. The boat is associated with the far-right Identitarian movement in Europe which opposes immigration and Islam. “There are places across Europe … in France, in the UK … which are suffering the consequences of this already… The Islamic religion risks provoking danger, disturbing public order, and upsetting social and cultural values. Natural Europeans are being substituted,” said Lorenzo Fiato, a 24-year-old graduate from Milan, who heads the Generation Identity movement’s Italian faction, as cited by the Guardian. View image on Twitter Nine crew, including the captain, and the ship’s owner...

11Mar

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Italy

Chronicle of a Crisis Postponed: Italy After the Referendum

NOVANEWS By Ingo Schmidt Socialist Project Matteo Renzi assumed the role of Italian Prime Minister on February 22, 2014 as the self-proclaimed rottamatore – the ‘demolition man’ of an inefficient system. After successfully passing a series of laws by means of this very system that lowered social standards, he failed in the attempt at a constitutional amendment that would have accelerated future measures designed to further degrade social standards. In a referendum held on December 5, 2016 a clear majority of 59 per cent rejected the proposed changes. Renzi held on to pass the 2017 budget through parliament but then resigned on December 7. Since then, ex-foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni has taken charge of government affairs. New elections demanded by the opposition after the ...

15Jan

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Italy, Palestine Affairs

The Pope Says Yes to Palestine: Embassy Opens in Vatican

NOVANEWS By Telesur On Saturday Palestine will open its first embassy in the Vatican, a diplomatically significant development in the midst of ongoing threats by President-elect Donald Trump to illegally move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and an international peace conference on Israel and Palestine which begins on Sunday in Paris. Palestine’s ambassador to the Vatican, Issa Kassissieh, said the embassy was “a significant achievement for the Palestinian people,” adding that Argentine-born Pope Francis had made an important “moral, legal and political stand through recognizing the state of Palestine along the pre-1967 borders.” Palestine has formal diplomatic missions to over 90 countries and has had official diplomatic relations with the Vatican since 2000. ...

8Feb

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Egypt, Human Rights, Italy

Italian Cambridge PhD student suffered 'inhuman, animal-like' violence before his death in Egypt

NOVANEWS Italy demands investigation after autopsy reveals doctoral student was tortured for days and his neck broken before his battered corpse was found near a highway. Phd student Giulio Regeni is believed dead Shared workspace is an exciting – and growing – way of doing business. Find out more. By Andrea Vogt, Bologna An Italian Cambridge University PhD student killed in Cairo was tortured for several days before dying from a broken neck, according to a post-mortem. Rome prosecutors have opened a murder investigation into the death of Giulio Regeni, whose battered corpse was found near a highway outside the Egyptian capital nine days after he was reported missing. As new, disturbing details of Mr Regeni’s last days in Egypt emerge, some of the researcher's...

5Feb

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Italy, USA

Telling it like it is: Woman shouts 'it's you who created Daesh!' to Kerry at press conference in Italy

NOVANEWS © Nicholas Kamm / Reuters U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) speaks next to Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni during a news conference following a ministerial meeting of the so-called "anti-Islamic State coalition" in Rome, Italy, February 2, 2016. US Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to Italy was disrupted by a cry of protest at his joint press conference with Italian foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni, when a woman in the audience shouted, "it's you who created Daesh!" The press conference was coming to an end, when the woman stood up from the public, her head covered up by a black veil. "It's you who created Daesh!" she shouted at the two ministers, using another name for the terror group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL),reported the Italian state-owne...

18Jan

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Italy, USA

Portuguese Court Demands CIA Agent Extradition to Italy for Rendition Crime

NOVANEWS Sputnik A Portuguese court of appeals has ordered the extradition of a former CIA officer who was convicted in absentia for her alleged role in the rendition of a suspected terrorist. Sabrina De Sousa could face four years in jail. The dual American and Portuguese citizen traveled to Lisbon in April with her husband. When she attempted to fly to the Indian state of Goa to visit her ailing mother in October, she set off a travel-alert indicating she was wanted in Italy. Authorities then arrested her and seized the dual citizen’s American and Portuguese passports. De Sousa was charged in 2005 for her alleged role in the kidnapping of suspected terrorist and Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar. More than 20 other Americans including CIA officials were ...

29Dec

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Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Italy

Anti-Muslim hysteria: Map reveals extent of fascist revival across EU

NOVANEWS Daily Express FAR-RIGHT parties are on the march across Europe as the unprecedented migrant crisis gripping the continent fuels a surge in support for nationalist movements. Far-right parties have made significant gains across Europe this year This shocking map shows how anti-immigration campaigners have enjoyed huge gains in this year's elections, whilst thousands have taken to the streets to protest against the overwhelming influx of migrants and refugees. From Greece to Germany and Switzerland to Sweden, far-right protestors and parties have stormed the mainstream of European politics as voters rebel against years of predominantly socialist rule. In France Marine Le Pen's controversial Front National came within a whisker of winning control over swathes of the countr...