EU Parliament: Special Committee on COVID-19 visiting Northern Italy. Van Brempt, many lessons that will serve “as guidelines for a more resilient Europe in future crises”
Poverty: Caritas, 6 out of 10 beneficiaries are the product of “intergenerational poverty.” People assisted on the rise (+7.7%)
di Patrizia CaiffaCaritas centres and services distributed almost 1.5 million aid packages from 192 diocesan Caritas in 2021. At least 227,556 people…
War in Syria: Amjad (political refugee): “The Syria I knew was a beautiful mosaic”
di Daniele RocchiThe story of Amjad, political refugee from Syria, his new life in Italy and his dream of seeing his country…
EU Commission: positive assessment of Italy’s second request for 21 billion under NRRP. Gentiloni, new government “should ensure opportunities are seized and commitments fulfilled”
Eurostat: surge in bread prices, +18% in Europe, +13.5% in Italy, +66% in Hungary
Assisted suicide. Morresi: “When patients are properly cared for, there is no request for death”
di Gigliola Alfaro“The request for euthanasia is not a medical issue, but an anthropological one. It involves deciding when and how to…
Drought. Cattolica University: key challenges facing agriculture can be met via academic research
di Gigliola AlfaroThe online review “Secondo Tempo”, with the contribution of academics from the Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences of…
EU: 433 million euros to Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg. Hosting refugees, response to Covid, and vaccines
150 join the Kyiv Peace March on July 11: “We are all Ukrainians, we are all Europeans”
di M. Chiara BiagioniOn Monday July 11, 150 representatives of 35 Italian movements and associations will attend a ‘March for Peace’ in Kyiv.…
Energy and gas. Timpano (Uni. Cattolica): “Diversification of supply sources is of the essence. The ‘price cap’ will tell us how far Putin wants to go.”
di Alberto Baviera“The practical mechanism underlying a price cap implementation is still unclear,” says Francesco Timpano, Economic Policies lecturer at Milan’s Cattolica…
Ukraine: humanitarian aid is dwindling. Fr Semehen (St. Sophia): “The people are still in need.” Schintu ( CRI): “The war has not ended.”
di Marco CalvareseOver four months have passed since Russia invaded the territory of Ukraine on February 24, and there is no sign…