Looks like the attentive blogger at menteindependente picked up on the 2006 Freedom House report on freedom of the media: Italy remains in 79th place in the world, with a classification of ‘partly free’. Italy is, along with Turkey, the only European country with this classification. Unfortunately, the 2006 report doesn’t seem to be [...]
More analysis on the weekend’s referendum. A number of hypotheses:
Voters judged that the referendum would worsen the position of economically disadvantaged regions relative to economically advantaged regions; we should expect the referendum to be lost most heavily in the most economically disadvantaged regions
Voters judged that the referendum would worsen the position of the South and [...]
After yesterday’s referendum defeat for the centre-right, Repubblica.it reports some scuttlebutt that may signal a very poor future for the parties that supported the reform:
Berlusconi dopo la sconfitta “Ora proveranno a farmi fuori” – Politica – Repubblica.it: “Al Senato, ad esempio, è già scattato l’allarme. Un plotone di 6-7 senatori potrebbe trasferirsi armi e bagagli [...]