Reportage from Sarajevo

1425. These are the days of the siege of Sarajevo, from 5th April 1992 to 29th February 1996. The longest siege of the modern history. Baščaršija is Sarajevo's old bazaar During the war, everyday Sarajevo was on the newspapers and in Tv. People on a queue to fill bottles of water, people died while they were buying bread, buildings destroyed...

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What about the US Elections?

After months of electoral campaign, we are now very close to know who will be the 45th President of United States. I didn't follow so much the campaign, but there are always some interesting sparks for a discussion. First, the participation to the vote is always around 50 - 55%: it means 120 - 130 million people out of 240. If we consider...

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Movimento 5 Stelle and Podemos: two sides of a different coin

Tomorrow in Italy it will take place the second round of the municipality elections in many important cities. In particular, Turin and Rome could become the first big cities with a major of the Movimento 5 Stelle. In Europe there is already a similar case, in Spain where Podemos already governs Madrid and Barcelona. Even if it would be...

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Brexit: a Union based on the fear?

In few days we will know what British people want. If they see their future still in the European Union or not. Media highlight every day the negative consequences of a Brexit. UK economy could be high impacted by this decision, with decrease of wealth, moving of major corporations to the "Continent" and loss of occupation. On the other side, a...

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Is Austria another problem for Europe?

Norbert Hofer has won the first turn of the Presidential Elections in Austria. He is the leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) and the direct successor of Jörg Haider, died in 2008. FPO is an anti-European and xenophobic party, strong opponent of Brussels and of the European policies for the refugees. If Hofer wins the second turn...

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Is Finland the new sick man of Europe?

In the last quarter, as indicated by Eurostat, all the European Countries have seen increasing their GDP except four: Portugal (0%), Estonia (-0.5%), Greece (-0,5%) and Finland (-0.6%). The case of Finland, in particular, is worrying and needs to be highlighted. Helsinki is crossing the worst economic crisis since many years and the outlook for...

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Which kind of Europe can fight against the terrorism?

Terrorism highlighted once again the contradiction of Europe. From one side, it seems clear that without a central body for the European Security and Intelligence, it will be difficult to fight against terrorism. From the other, the Member States have not the real will to give power to a European subject and lose their full sovereignty. It...

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Pis & Love

Once again terrorism attacked the heart of Europe. And once again public opinion is touched by the will to find and then fight the enemy and the astonishment for something maybe expected, but not really understandable. There is something we need to highlight. First, this is not a war, but pure terrorism. And many countries had long experience...

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Why the new settlement for the Uk in Eu is a huge mistake

Finally Uk will stay in the European Union. Brexit has been avoided, at least for the moment and till the referendum in June announced by David Cameron. The new agreement recognizes the special status Uk has always had in Europe. London won't never be part of a Federal Union and will keep a large autonomy on her credit system. In my...

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Where is Poland going?

Poland is considered as the best example of how positive can be the effects of being part of European Union. European Funds, investments of the world most important corporations, political stability, German support and polish industriousness changed radically the country. Poland today is the most developed Eastern country, one of the world center...

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Let's start this year with Culture in Wroclaw

Here we are! 2016 finally arrived and will be the year of Wrocław (Poland) as Cultural Capital City together with  San Sebastian (Spain) . Also Wrocław have been nominated World Book Capital City 2016. This is not the first time for Poland, as Krakow had the same title in 2000. But Wrocław is an emerging city, one of the...

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