New excitements in the Italian election, but the outcome remains in doubt
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Gaffe or provocation?
Silvio Berlusconi chooses Holocaust Memorial Day to praise Mussolini. But is it another insensitive gaffe or a deliberate political ploy?
Berlusconi apparently snoozing through Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony
Berlusconi chooses Holocaust Memorial Day to say Mussolini not all bad
Venice launches the 2013 carnival
Berlusconi causes outrage by praising Mussolini on Holocaust Memorial Day
Berlusconi’s defence of Italy’s fascist dictator, and a possible banking scandal on the left, set to electrify election campaign
Aphrodite’s indebted island
Could a country smaller than Sicily reignite the euro crisis?
Dancing with wolves
This wonderful video was filmed by an amateur cameraman and sent to the Italian daily La Repubblica. In the week of Christmas, he set out to find wolves in the Apennines near Bologna. And, as the final sequences of the video show, he had a closer encounter than he expected.
Silvio Berlusconi’s furious debate glues Italy to television
Former prime minister confronts media nemesis Michele Santoro in slanging match laced with plenty of theatrics
Beppe Grillo throws a line to the far right
Is this the start of something worrying? Queueing to hand in his lists of candidates, the leader of the Five Star Movement finds a striking amount of common ground in a chat with a candidate for the Casa Pound neo-fascist movement. At one point, Grillo says that a “lad” from Casa Pound could join the Five Star Movement if he fulfilled the requisites. That’s stating the obvious, but it looks very much as if he was throwing them a line.