President-elect Barack Obama's new economic team will have to roll up their sleeves to achieve their ambitious plan to save the US economy by creating 2.5 million new jobs within two years of taking office. That's what Obama wants, so it will be the first task of Timothy Geithner, the incoming Secretary of the Treasury and former president of the Federal Reserve. His nomination momentarily calmed the waters of the financial world, continue...
Piece by piece Kosovo is preparing its presentation to the world. Last week its national anthem was approved; Sunday the Constitution came into force, and President Fatmir Sejdiu signed the first package of laws instituting the State Department, the Defense Department, and the Army, which may be employed in international peacekeeping missions. Finally, continue...
Written for us by Giovanni Vegezzi The situation of Sub-Saharan immigrants living in Morocco continues to be very difficult. A series of roundups were carried out by Moroccan police forces in the middle of January, on the eve of the meeting of foreign ministers from Mediterranean countries. North side and south side. The conference, continue...
What is your opinion on the deportation decree of Romanians deemed to be “socially dangerous” recently passed by the Italian government? This emergency decree facilitates the deportation of Romanians and the Roma with limited procedural guarantees. I expect it will totally comply with the European and international human rights laws. continue...
Written for us by Bruno Neri I am back in Iraq after two years, since the two Simones' kidnapping and Baldoni's death. My arrival in Erbil coincides with the Asian cup winning by the Iraqi national soccer team. Scenes of the “Two banks Lions” and of the outstanding moments of the victorious match against Saudi Arabia are scrolling on the Erbil airport monitors. continue...
A group of Balkans experts from the foreign ministries that make up the 'Contact Group' (US, Russia, Germany, France, Italy and Great Britain) just gathered in Vienna to discuss the destiny of Kosovo, a province of Serbia with an Albanian majority, administered by the UN since 1999. Action meeting. The experts met on August 30th marking the resumption of the peace negotiations, continue...
Srinagar is coming back to life after the dark years of Sunni extremism, the Indian media reports, describing the nightlife scene in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. People promenade along the lakefront till late in the evening, attracting the notice of the national and Asian press, who write about the new flowering of “India’s Switzerland”, until 1980 the summer capital not only of Jammu and Kashmir, continue...
