EU Commission: transport, 6 billion for 107 projects. Funding for Brenner tunnel linking Italy to Austria, Rail Baltica and Germany-Netherlands connection
DRAFT LAW —
Surrogate motherhood. Di Nicola: “A complex question reduced to a slogan”
di Giulia Paola Di NicolaDi Nicola (sociologist) comments on surrogate motherhood: “What is most disturbing is that these issues are being reduced to slogans…
GIG ECONOMY AND RIGHTS —
Jobs and digital platforms, proposals for new EU regulations. Tassinari (ACLI): “We are on the right track.” Faioli (Cattolica): “Italy has existing tools”
di Alberto BavieraThe directive under discussion “aims to ease the burden of proof for digital platform workers, allowing them to petition the…
ENABLING LAW 33/2023 —
Non-self-sufficient elderly population: Caritas and Italian Bishops’ Conference, “we welcome the creation of a single support scheme. Appropriate resources must be made available now.”
di Patrizia CaiffaOn Monday, Caritas Italy, the National Service for the Pastoral Care of Persons with Disabilities and the National Office for…
4TH REPORT —
Terrorism. React: Europe third most affected region. Insurrectionary-anarchist threat grows in Italy
di Daniele RocchiThe 4th Annual Report on Terrorism and Radicalisation in Europe drawn up by the Observatory on Radicalisation and Counter-Terrorism in…
Eurostat: NEET, more than one in ten young Europeans are neither employed nor studying. The Netherlands are doing well, Romania and Italy are doing badly
ITALY/UCRAINE —
The Ukrainian people’s voices at the Assembly of the Italian Bishops’ Conference. Msgr. Ryabukha (Donetsk): “Please continue being there for us”
di M. Chiara Biagioni“Please continue to be there for us. Do not lose courage; let us look to the future together, believing in…
ANALYSIS —
EU: the economy contained the shockwave of the war. But “risk factors” abound
di Gianni BorsaThe European Commission released its Spring Economic Forecast. Declining energy prices and inflation are a breath of fresh air for…
Report —
Media: Liberties Report 2023. Restrictions on pluralism, crimes and threats against journalists. The case of Italy
43RD NATIONAL CONGRESS —
Caritas Italy. Fr Pagniello: a co-responsibility ‘plan’ against poverty, involving the Church, civil society and relevant institutions
di From our correspondent Patrizia CaiffaThe 43rd National Diocesan Caritas Congress that brought together 660 delegates from 173 dioceses April 17-20, drew to a close…
2023 REPORT —
Migrants and refugees. Centro Astalli, “Italy has not learned from experience with Ukrainians and fails to move beyond the emergency approach”
di Patrizia CaiffaThe 2023 Annual Report of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Italy ‘Centro Astalli’, presented today in Rome, shows that as…
