New faces old hands
Cécile Kyenge Kashetu hadn’t even been sworn in when a leading figure in the Northern League was promising that she would face the party’s “total opposition”. That’s all right then. A vote of...
View ArticleThree new Italians not enough
On Sunday Mustapha Dieng, Cheikh Mbengue and Mor Sougou posed for photographers with the smartly framed citizenship certificates the Prefect of Florence Luigi Varatta had just handed them. On 13th...
View ArticleThe uphill path to integration
The appointment of Cécile Kyenge as Minister of Integration was a sign that Italy is moving closer to accepting that it is becoming a multiracial society. The reaction to that appointment has revealed...
View ArticleCalderoli should go
Hasn’t Roberto Calderoli done enough damage? In February 2006, in the midst of the crisis over the anti-Muslim cartoons published in Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, Italy's Minister for Institutional...
View ArticleSome racism best ignored?
At the beginning of this week, racist graffiti attacking Integration Minister Cécile Kyenge appeared on walls in a small town near Florence. On Tuesday the websites of most of Italy’s news outlets...
View ArticleIntolerance cannot be tolerated
As if painting his face black and delivering an astonishing racist diatribe in Italy's lower chamber were not enough, Gianluca Buonanno of the right-wing Northern League has added anti-Semitism to his...
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Don't call me foreigner
Saturday's demonstration in Milan. "NO to mosques" "Less illegal immigration = less disease" Matteo Renzi announced on Sunday that the children of immigrants would no longer have to wait until they are...
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Racism isn't funny Beppe
Beppe Grillo and Parma mayor Federico Pezzarotti Someone should tell Beppe Grillo that racism isn't funny. The co-founder of the Five Star Movement (M5S) just can’t help himself....
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Is Italy's League racist?
Matteo Salvini may genuinely believe that his party is not racist. Otherwise, why has he brought a defamation case against Cécile Kyenge, the former Minister for Integration, for saying it is? Salvini...
View ArticleNew faces old hands
Cécile Kyenge Kashetu hadn’t even been sworn in when a leading figure in the Northern League was promising that she would face the party’s “total opposition”. That’s all right then. A vote of...
View ArticleThree new Italians not enough
On Sunday Mustapha Dieng, Cheikh Mbengue and Mor Sougou posed for photographers with the smartly framed citizenship certificates the Prefect of Florence Luigi Varatta had just handed them. On 13th...
View ArticleThe uphill path to integration
The appointment of Cécile Kyenge as Minister of Integration was a sign that Italy is moving closer to accepting that it is becoming a multiracial society. The reaction to that appointment has revealed...
View ArticleCalderoli should go
Hasn’t Roberto Calderoli done enough damage? In February 2006, in the midst of the crisis over the anti-Muslim cartoons published in Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, Italy's Minister for Institutional...
View ArticleSome racism best ignored?
At the beginning of this week, racist graffiti attacking Integration Minister Cécile Kyenge appeared on walls in a small town near Florence. On Tuesday the websites of most of Italy’s news outlets...
View ArticleIntolerance cannot be tolerated
As if painting his face black and delivering an astonishing racist diatribe in Italy's lower chamber were not enough, Gianluca Buonanno of the right-wing Northern League has added anti-Semitism to his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Don't call me foreigner
Saturday's demonstration in Milan. "NO to mosques" "Less illegal immigration = less disease" Matteo Renzi announced on Sunday that the children of immigrants would no longer have to wait until they are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Racism isn't funny Beppe
Beppe Grillo and Parma mayor Federico Pezzarotti Someone should tell Beppe Grillo that racism isn't funny. The co-founder of the Five Star Movement (M5S) just can’t help himself....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is Italy's League racist?
Matteo Salvini may genuinely believe that his party is not racist. Otherwise, why has he brought a defamation case against Cécile Kyenge, the former Minister for Integration, for saying it is? Salvini...
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