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Standing against the Spanish Anti-Gag Law should be a European challenge
Written by Angelo Boccato
The US journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald recently wrote an article on The Intercept titled: “The greatest threat to free speech comes not from terrorism, but from those claiming to fight it”. In the UK, during the Queen’s Speech the new measures included in the Counter Terrorism Bill […]
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Angelo Boccato
A Labour Studies graduate, journalist and blogger, with an Erasmus experience at the Michael Smurfit Business School, UCD, in Dublin. Currently I am based in London. I have a passion for journalism, economics, labour issues, geopolitics.....and for cinema, music, football and rugby as well....You can find my blog here (www.freeparkcorner.wordpress.com) and my portfolio here (https://angeloboccato.contently.com/).
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Eurosceptics on the rise in Italy and in the UK….is the end of Europe as we know it?
Written by Angelo Boccato
This year’s European elections can definitely be considered the most important since their institution in 1979 and fall during a time where the same ideas of the European project, which finds its original roots in views expressed by figures like Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi in the Ventotene manifesto. The European electoral campaign in […]
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Growth vs. Sustainability: not the most exciting match in Italy
Written by Angelo Boccato
If growth is a dead word in Italian political debate, as discussed in my previous article on Austerity for Growth?, it seems that political and social awareness In Italy is also very low when it comes to sustainability issues. The Green Party disappeared together with the Rainbow Left in […]
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Austerity for growth? Greater European integration could be the emergency exit…..
Written by Angelo Boccato
Austerity has never been mentioned in the Italian debate until now, unlike asperity, a lighter word that also implies future perspectives of growth. The promise of a path of asperity leading to economic growth has been the ‘mantra’ of Mario Monti’s government, and Enrico Letta, the current prime minister has […]
