Ansa: Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Friday said he has ordered to change “parent 1” and “parent 2” into “mother” and “father” on forms to get an electronic identity card on his ministry’s website.
Speaking to online Catholic daily La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, Salvini said: “I was told that on the interior ministry’s website, forms for an electronic identity card had “parent 1” and “parent 2″‘.… Be Informed
ANSA: Italian athlete Daisy Osakue said Monday she was attacked at Moncalieri, near Turin, overnight because she is black.
Osakue, who holds the Italian under-23 record for the discus and was born in Turin to Nigerian parents, was hit in the face by an egg hurled from a car at Moncalieri.… Be Informed
Guardian: Police in Rome have cleared nearly 400 people, including dozens of children, from a camp inhabited for years by members of the minority Roma community, despite an EU court ruling halting demolition.
Residents stood outside the camp with mattresses and other belongings piled alongside vehicles, some protesting against the move with chants of “racists!”
Some complained that police used force during the eviction, however the police commander, Antonio Di Maggio, denied the claims.… Be Informed
ANSA: Italy doesn’t need “charity” from the EU on migrants, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Tuesday.
“If they want to give money to someone else let them do so, Italy doesn’t need charity,” he said in reference to a Financial Times report that the EU proposes paying 6,000 euros for every migrants rescued in the Mediterranean and received by one of the EU’s member States.… Be Informed
“Caro nonno mi dispiace per il 19 luglio 1992. Certo se tu fossi vivo avresti capito quanto ti coccolerei. Ti voglio bene. La tua nipotina Fiammetta Borsellino”. With these words, the grandchild of Paolo Borsellino sends her love to her grandfather who was killed by the Mafia in 1992.… Be Informed
ANSA reports that the Italian police on Tuesday made 31 arrest as they hit the Casamonica Roman crime family. Six people are missing and presumed to be on the run, police said.
The arrests were made in the Italian capital and in the provinces of Reggio Calabria and Cosenza in Calabria, police said.… Be Informed
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He came, he disrupted, he conquered. Or not? For sure he conquered the headlines.
In a nutshell that’s the essence of Trump’s visit to the UK impact. However back home in the US, news broke out of the indictment of Russians for hacking his opponent in the Presidency election.… Be Informed
ANSA: Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday that he will not give the all-clear for Coast Guard ship Diciotti to dock unless he has the names of the migrants on board involved in alleged violence on the private Italian vessel that initially rescued the group off Libya.… Be Informed
The Local: Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini says he plans to go to Moscow this weekend to combine a visit to Russian President Vladimir Putin with the World Cup final.
Salvini said he was preparing for a “political-football mission” to Russia the following weekend.… Be Informed
DW: Italy’s hardline Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, vowed on Sunday to stop foreign naval vessels that have saved migrants in the Mediterranean Sea from docking in Italian ports, extending a ban first placed on ships chartered by charities.
Foreign naval ships participating in European Union and NATO-sponsored search-and-rescue missions transfer many migrants to land at Italian ports.… Be Informed
Italy is ready to provide Libya with “technical and economic support to guarantee security in the Mediterranean together and to strengthen investigative cooperation and security cooperation”.
This was stated by Matteo Salvini, in a meeting Libyan Interior Minister Abdulsalam Ashour in Tripoli. … Be Informed
This was the week that was. Perhaps an escalation of events which makes you realise that we are really living through an attack on representative democracy, the liberal order, and the constitution.
Is the west’s disintegration now likelier than not? That is hard to say.… Be Informed
France 24: French President Emmanuel Macron came out Saturday in support of financial sanctions against EU countries which refuse to accept migrants.
“We can not have countries that benefit hugely from EU solidarity and claim national self-interest when it comes to the issue of migrants,” he said at a press conference in Paris alongside Spain’s new Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.… Be Informed
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History repeats itself as a second vessel is rejected from docking – just days after the Aquarius was stranded for a week. This issue is the dominant story in Malta’s papers and Italian news sites.
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>>The Times reported that Spain offered humanitarian help in the Mediterranean migration crisis for the second time in as many weeks as a vessel carrying 239 immigrants entered Maltese waters.
Corriere Della Sera Italian Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, opens a new front. This time, interviewed by Radio Studio 54, he said that ” 10 mandatory vaccines are useless, in many cases dangerous if not harmful”.
This led to an immediate reaction from respected Professor Burioni who tweeted “No, Minister Salvini. … Be Informed
A new day, a new controversy.
Italy said it will seize two migrant rescue ships in the Mediterranean, amid a deepening row over migrants. Two German NGO ships carrying migrants “will be seized” to determine their legal status.
The move comes as French President Emmanuel Macron attacked the “leprosy” of anti-EU feeling, angering Italy’s new populist government.… Be Informed
ANSA: A new situation is developing in the Mediterranean Sea in relation to the roles of NGOs operating rescue missions in the region.
A ship belonging to the German NGO Lifeline had to intervene to rescue 300-400 migrants aboard a rubber boat off the Libyan coast. … Be Informed
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Tuesday criticized Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s plans to create a Roma “register.”
“No one is planning to create files or conduct a census on the basis of ethnicity, which would be unconstitutional because it is clearly discriminatory,” Conte said in a statement Tuesday.… Be Informed
Two non-EU citizens have been injured, albeit not seriously, in Caserta when three young Italian men shot them with a compressed-air pistol while shouting “Salvini, Salvini”. According to the story reported on Corriere.It the two Malian youths are refugees.
TgCom reports that the event dates back to 11 June but was denounced only today by the Social Center Ex Canapificio, an association that manages the Sprar project together with the Rut Community of the Ursuline Sisters and Caritas. … Be Informed