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The importance of being called Abe Shinzo (and not vice versa)
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The Land of the Rising Sun is on the shields: the arrival of Trump, the G20 in Osaka. Waiting for the Olympics 2020, the prime minister asks the world to pronounce his name correctly
Japan of the new Reiwa era (beautiful harmony) enters a phase of great international activity: Donald Trump arrives on a state visit over the weekend; then in June the G20 in Osaka; rugby world cup in September; Olympics in 2020. On the agenda of the American president, first world leader hosted since Naruhito ascended the throne, banquet with the emperor, sumo tournament, inspection of a helicopter carrier, a few holes of golf with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Or better, Abe Shinzo.

It was the Foreign Minister of Tokyo who asked the international press to adapt to Japanese custom: «Our prime minister is called Abe Shinzo, non Shinzo Abe. First the surname and then the name, as we do". The request formulated by the head of Japanese diplomacy contains a claim of equal cultural dignity with China and South Korea

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Rai Movie and Rai Premium close, protest on the web
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The decision to close the two public TV satellite channels that broadcast films and TV series is now a coincidence
ROMA While protests rage on social media, Usigrai appeals «to the CEO Fabrizio Salini to think again». The decision to close Rai Movie and Rai Premium is now a coincidence, the two satellite channels that broadcast films and TV series. Why, and this is the strongest accusation made by the internal union, «suppressing two channels like Rai Movie and Rai Premium means handing over a portion of the audience to pay TV and new platforms. What is the purpose of deleting channels that 24 hours up 24 broadcast new releases, but also great classics and in-depth programmes? To get everyone to migrate to Netflix?».
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The execution of Giovanni Gentile, seventy-five years of ambiguity
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«I have reasons that I can't say here, Why, because…they touch on things that perhaps cannot yet be said, but very precise". This hinted at the assassination of Giovanni Gentile by the philosopher and former PCI senator Cesare Luporini during a Radio Tre radio broadcast in April 1989, but within four years he took the secret with him to the grave.
On the threshold of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Gentile murder it would therefore not be inappropriate to return to the possible meaning of this cryptic phrase, also making use of some results of the investigation conducted by Luciano Mecacci in his book "The Florentine Ghirlanda and the death of Giovanni Gentile" (Adelphi, 2014).

As is known, the philosopher's death sentence appeared for the first time in February of 1944 on the Lugano socialist paper «Libera Stampa», to then be re-proposed on the clandestine organ of the PCI «La Nostra Lotta» in a slightly modified form: in both cases the articles bore the signature of the Latinist Concetto Marchesi and were born as a radical rejection of the national conciliation proposals advanced by Gentile during the 1943. Actually the second article, the one in which the infamous verdict appears («Senator Gentile, the people's justice has issued its sentence: DEATH!») it was modified by Girolamo Li Causi, responsible for the clandestine press of the PCI, and endorsed by Togliatti. The execution took place at the entrance to the villa of Montalto al Salviatino il 15 April 1944 by a commando of Florentine Gappists composed of Bruno Fanciullacci and Giuseppe Martini, although there are still uncertainties as to which of the two shot. Read More

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I 1.425 bridges without properties: how it ended
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A technical table has been convened for this morning between Anas and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport which should take stock of the situation on the "anonymous bridges" affair, raised by a Dataroom investigation who discovered that in Italy there are hundreds of bridges about which nothing is known: of who they are, who manages them, who does its maintenance. The meeting should lay the foundations for resolving two fundamental issues: the regulatory and financial framework.

The legislative vacuum

There is a legislative gap to be filled, which at the moment does not allow Anas to intervene on structures whose ownership is uncertain, despite the fact that they overpass the state roads it manages (beyond 20 thousand kilometers…

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At Steve Bannon's house: «In my school I will train agents of populism»
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«Soros? For me he is a model. Il 2019 it will be an extraordinary year for sovereignists. The elections in Brussels will determine the direction of the European project. And it will be the baddest year in American politics since 1858: it will be trench warfare here in Washington

Of Viviana Mazza, inviata a Washington

Of Viviana Mazza, inviata a Washington
We meet Steve Bannon at his home, the so-called Breitbart Embassy, a red brick townhouse behind the Supreme Court: he hosted the right-wing site when he was its executive chairman. Now into the room covered in patriotic blue carpets with white stars, Trump's former strategist holds dinners and meetings: with conservative Catholics who could finance his new projects; with Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of the new Brazilian president, and others.
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Il "vescovo" Andreas Schwarz and the good life: sauna, swimming pool and lover with the money of the Conciliar Church
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Sauna, piscina e amante: la bella vita del vescovo, con i soldi della ChiesaSauna, pool and lover: the good life of the bishop, with the money of the Church

Monsignor Andreas Schwarz was bishop of Klagenfurt, in Austria: How many millions of euros he stole from the diocese has yet to be calculated

Of Giuseppe Gaetano

Of Giuseppe Gaetano

Only the swimming pool with attached sauna that he had built in Klagenfurt, where until May Andreas Schwarz was the bishop, it cost over a million euros. Removed from the heritage of the Carinthian Church itself. But what has most shocked public opinion is the relationship with Andrea Erzinger, his lover, appointed by him as director of a training center with an annual salary of 91 thousand euros. He was completely dominated by it: «He was conditioned by the arbitrariness and moods of this confidant of his- we read in the file drawn up at the end of the investigation -, due to the obligation of celibacy required for priests". A psychological subjection that could also have arisen from blackmail: the woman, revealing the secret, it would have ruined it. Read More

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Policy

Maneuver, The EU will not initiate any infringement proceedings. Conte: "We didn't give in"
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Manovra, niente procedura di infrazione. Mattarella: «Risposte durature e non emotive»The temporary decision of the EU Commission, who will return to take stock in January. Dombrovsky: «Additional effort 10 billion". Conte: «We have not given up on the contents»

Of Paolo Decrestina

After three months, the negotiations led to the desired result: none infringement procedure. Europe, for now, it spares us and does not take measures for excessive debt against Italy. But the solution, they assure from Brussels, It's certainly not "ideal", because "it does not provide a long-term solution for Italy's economic problems". In short, «it allows us to avoid opening a debt procedure for now, provided that the negotiated measures are fully implemented.", said the vice-president of the EU Commission Valdis Dombrovskis clearly, according to which «the additional measures found by Italy amount to 10,25 billion". An agreement blessed by the head of state: «Despite obvious difficulties – said Sergio Mattarella speaking at the Quirinale – the risk of a short circuit between the urgency of providing quick responses must be avoided, stimulated by disorientation and emotion, and the need for longer times needed to define solutions, effective, long-lasting and sustainable".

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