TORONTO – The federal government has lifted all restrictions for Covid-19 at the borders, meaning that travelers will no longer have to provide proof of vaccination when entering Canada and will not be required to wear masks on planes and trains.
ROME – An overwhelming majority of the Center-right, both in the Chamber and in the Senate. With an army of deputies and senators for Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia. It is the new framework of the Italian Parliament, which emerges radically changed by the last political elections. →
TORONTO – This expression, of debated origin, but popular in the 20th century English lexicon, was used to “defer responsibility for some task or action to some unspecified other person”. Italians have placed their trust in Giorgia.
ROME – Her political history begins thirty years ago in a Roman section of the Fronte della Gioventù (the Youth Front of the far-right party MSI) where she arrives and, simply, knocks on the door. It is 1992 and she, Giorgia Meloni, is 15 years old and attends the linguistic school “Amerigo Vespucci”. She does not come from any “lineage” of the Roman right but, like so many of the ones who embraced political militancy in those years, she comes from a particular family situation: her mother, Anna, is separated, and also has another daughter (Arianna), and she does the most varied jobs to get by. All three live in a 45 square meter two-room apartment, a spartan home, without a sofa and with a single table where they can do their homework, eat and rest their elbows to watch TV. Giorgia and Arianna sleep on a mobile bed, “one for the head and one for the feet”, located in the corridor. →
ROMA – “Oggi abbiamo scritto la storia. Non tradiremo la vostra fiducia. Siamo pronti a risollevare l’Italia”. Così la futura premier Giorgia Meloni sui socials, dopo la grande affermazione di Fratelli d’Italia (primo partito con il 26%, secondo i dati che arrivano a scrutini ancora in corso) e la netta vittoria del Centrodestra (43%, contro il 26,2% del Centrosinistra)…
