Flicking around the TV channels in a friend’s house last night
PiS deputy Jacek Kurski has been forced by the courts to apologise to Agora,
The Asinelli and Garisenda towers (Torre degli Asinelli & Torre delle Garisenda), marking the heart of medieval Bologna, are just two of a number of towers remaining from the middle ages dotted around the city. They’re certianly the most impressive – standing at in Piazza Ravegnana, at the intersection of the roads that lead to […]
Guide to The Ducati Museum – Bologna Were Emilia-Romagna to declare independence from Italy in the morning, in one fell swoop Italy would lose the vast majority of its luxury car and motorcycle production. Emilia-Romagna is one of the richest regions in the country, in part precisely due to the fact that Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini, […]
The view from Gdańsk of the Lisbon aftermath is not too different from that in Bologna and, at a guess, everywhere else in Europe. My fellow monkey reports that the President of Italy said: “you can’t think that the decision of lit
It was inevitable that, sooner or later, someone in the Italian press/blogosphere would link Euro 2008 and the recent rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by the Irish electorate. Giordano Bruno Guerri, self-declared ‘anti-modernist’, blogger and journalist with il giornale, steps into the fray with a none-too-convincing argument on his blog.
An unusual choice, perhaps, given that it’s probably not the strongest song on an album – from the choirgirl hotel – which is arguably not Tori Amos’s strongest, even though it boasts Playboy Mommy and Jackie’s strength. And yet there’s something very special, and at the same time characteristic about this gentle love song. What’s great about […]
Tough talk, characterised most often by the phrase ‘amarezza‘ (bitterness) from Italy’s leading politicians following the news of Ireland’s ‘no’ vote to the Lisbon treaty. Ex President of the EU Commission Romano Prodi pulled no punches: “We can’t go on with the unanimous vote in a Union of 27 countries, and let’s stop saying that […]
As it became apparent today that Irish voters had rejected the Lisbon treaty, France mobilised its army preparatory to invading the recalcitrant island.