WORLD DAY —
Narcotic drugs. Squillaci: “Education is the biggest challenge ahead, building on relationships”
di Gigliola Alfaro“”When it comes to drug addiction, there are many factors at play, so a one-size-fits-all strategy is unlikely to be…
WORLD REFUGEE DAY —
Save the Children: “The number of unaccompanied minors arriving in Italy has increased twofold”
di Lucandrea MassaroFollowing World Refugees Day, Save the Children organised a conference to keep the spotlight on migration, especially on the issue…
Surrogacy: European Court of Human Rights, legitimate to say no to registration of birth certificates of children. Adoption is the suggested path
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…

