Tag Archive for 'Nicolas Sarkozy'
France, abstentions record a warning for Italy
He won the left, but even a Frenchman on two went to vote. They say the projections on regional transalpine March 14 in the first round that inflicts a heavy defeat to President Nicolas Sarkozy, with his party - the UMP - stuck at 27%, against 29% of the Socialist Party. The blockade of the left, with green and communist distance of 14 points all right-wing parties. But if the French "rejected" Sarkozy win is especially the turnout: Only 46.5% of eligible voters would go to the polls. A warning for Italy?
Hunt black, our future: a hell of lies
The future starts when we are already immersed in the plain of Gioia Tauro: Rosarno in the province of Reggio Calabria (real urban warfare is still in progress), as in Castel Volturno and Reggio itself, where the 'Ndrangheta wanted to intimidate the judiciary with an attack on the attorney general. The future starts Rosarno because the major problems of our civilization are gathering here: leaks of entire populations from poverty and wars (wars often triggered by the West, generating not order but chaos), the vast fears as they settle mists, poisoning life
Migrants try to live one day without us
You do not want immigrants in the way? Very well: try to believe. Nadia Lamarkbi, French journalist, launched the idea on the Internet: what if the country is waking up tomorrow without foreigners? Nadia has opened a Facebook page, entitled "A day without immigrants: 24 hours without us." Immediate response: just 33,000 accessions. The appointment is for 1 March 2010. That day, in France (and beyond) strikes nurses, caretakers, taxi drivers, laborers, street cleaners, babysitters, carers and dishwashers.
Fini young migrants who insults you is an asshole
"Who says that you are different is an asshole." Word of Gianfranco Fini, president of the Chamber, visited Nov. 21 at the center "Seeding" of the "No place is far away" to Casilino Rome, popular, multiethnic suburbs. An informal meeting with foreigners and young children of immigrants, some of which have already been born in Italy, such as the "Balotelli generation," much of the Italian grandson of an Italian who was born and raised in another country and who may not even know a word of our language. " Someone dares to discriminate their origin? And 'a' bastard ', proclaims Fini, without resorting to foul language impediments.
Ferrero: Media obscure poverty, 15 million at risk
The data on poverty released October 23 by the Italian Caritas confirm that we are in a phase of crisis unprecedented economic and social, from WWII to today. The complaint Paolo Ferrero, secretary of the Communist Refoundation "dramatically increase people and poor families and those at risk of poverty." For 15 million Italians, money is a problem. The emergency is not only the 7.5 million officially below the poverty line, but many who "placed just above
Nord Stream, the Russian gas in Europe: the earthquake in view
Suddenly, when the "Nord Stream" is now on the threshold of passing the last bureaucratic hurdles and technical resurface here in Europe and the United States, controversy, or rather explicit attempts to halt the execution. The "Nord Stream", for non-specialists, is the largest operation that Moscow has undertaken to work around - placing the tubes on the bottom of the Baltic Sea from Vyborg to Greifswald - the obstruction of its gas to Ukraine influx Western users. Whether it's an obstacle Moscow has experienced in past winters, including last two, with two "gas wars" which have been forced
Towards an Italian Islam, religion of school hour
The proposed hour of Islamic religion in Italian schools is neither new nor a provocation. On the contrary. But every time he speaks it seems that this is the excuse to interfere in the political debate out of place. The numbers involved and the presence of Muslim faithful in our country, however, speak otherwise. As the journey of this proposal in years has seen politicians, institutions and even the Catholic hierarchy to try to find a consensus. Sign that the problem persists and has not yet been resolved.
Bonelli: Green bipartisan and more European?
Was now that the Greens nostrani come out once and for all logic dell'arrocco. Metaphors chess, you can not miss the news that comes dall'assise party, where the election of Angelo Bonelli as secretary of the sun ride opens perspectives for unprecedented political and cultural Italian environmental movement. The output from the connotation "left" re-launched by opening the transversality neosegretario not seem to be only a click of pride autonomy but report a particularly positive sign of discontinuity close to the Green ecology debate in Europe is increasingly bipartisan issue.
Welfare, not GDP: advancing the ideas of decrease
For some years Maurizio Pallante and the Movement for the decrease Felice bring the center of their speeches and their proposals, the challenge to the GDP as a yardstick to measure the welfare of peoples and nations. Having been defined many times of doom, the retrograde or even naive, the deep sense of questioning of a certain type of development and not an unlimited economic growth was also implemented by the highest levels of European politics. Not more than a speech for "a few close friends, the decrease has made space in all areas.
The lesson of Guido, a leading gay German liberals
"The vast majority of the population has no problem with my privacy." So, simply, Guido Westerwelle, true winner of the German elections and almost certainly the next vice-chancellor, has set aside the "problem". What, then, problem is no longer, apparently. At least in Germany and much of d ' Europe . Even for Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (indeed, some unpleasant criticism about his possible appointment as foreign minister came from a Social Democrat member).
Labor: France-Italy, and De De Villepin Minzolini
When they have cleared the latest rogues also press and Rai, Silvio Berlusconi and the fairy band discover the extent of subversive foreign chronicles. It will abolish them too. The other day, for example, Massimo Nava told on page 18 of "Corriere della Sera, that is at a safe distance from the Italian chronicles the process that opened in Paris against former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and a host of celebrities who are at risk for false imprisonment, slander and abuse of office. This sort of French Watergate concerns an alleged plot by Villepin, perhaps in consultation with the then President Jacques Chirac
