EMANUELE LOMBARDINI “London Bridge is down”. And now? What’s going to happen now? This is the question of many on the banks of the Thames. Because like it or not, Queen Elizabeth II, in addition to being an active witness
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London Bridge is up again: new challenges at UK’s door
Putin is playing a dangerous game with Europe
The city of Brest becomes protagonist again, 30 years later. We are not talking about the Breton port town but about a Belarusian city near the Polish border. It is no coincidence that it was chosen as the location of
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EMANUELE LOMBARDINI The presidential elections in Italy? We could define them as a great “Wacky races”, if any of you remember the famous cartoon: a strange race between cars driven by weird and unlikely drivers, with he who believes himself
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EMANUELE LOMBARDINI Ready, steady, go! In Italy the search for the new President of Republic is starting. Next 3 February, the seven-year term of the current head of state, Sergio Mattarella, expires, and he has already said no to a
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EMANUELE LOMBARDINI The death of the European Parliament President David Sassoli is a day of mourning for all those who love Europe and democratic institutions. So it is also – if not above all – for us Liberals. David Sassoli
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EMANUELE LOMBARDINI Unite Europe after II World War, but also entertainment. When EBU (European Broadcasting Union) was founded in 1954, at Montreux Palace Hotel, the scenario that presented itself was that of a devastated continent, which needed to find itself
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Freedom of the press does not always correspond with the freedom to write things as they are. It happens in Malta
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When press serves propaganda: a challenge to free speech. TV and Media situation in some sovereign governements: HUngary, POland, Belarus and Russia
Read moreLGBT rights in Italy: when a necessary law becomes a political battle
EMANUELE LOMBARDINI Italy is the last country in Western Europe that does not yet have a law that protects homophobia. And therefore it is not a country for liberals. Let’s be clear, Italy has a law, of course. But that
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VLADAN LAUSEVIC During 2015 and the large refugee and humanitarian situation between Europe and Asia, Sweden accepted around 160 000 refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants from other parts of the world such as Syria and Afghanistan. After that, Sweden became a
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