Pietro Orsatti

On 6 October the Constitutional Court will decide on the award Alfano. To avoid bocciaturasi is trying every means to influence the verdict. At the risk the government and the legislature

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It was June, when controversy erupted over the constitutional judges of premier. The judges in question, Luigi Mazzella and Paolo Maria Napolitano, ended up in the middle of a fierce controversy for a dinner took place in the same house Mazzella with Silvio Berlusconi and Angelino Alfano, though both knew having to decide on the award in the fall. The "award Alfano," exactly. Mazzella was indeed the Minister of Civil Service in the Berlusconi government II, and the prime minister called "an old friend." But apparently rely only old friends, for the defenders of the award most universally criticized Republican history, has not paid. Who participated at the dinner Berlusconi, despite the clear contradiction, did not surprise anyone. That there was also the justice minister Angelino Alfano, a little 'more. That dinner is a watershed for the minister, who for years had managed to keep despite the many controversies and many clashes with the opposition on one side and the printing part, an institutional profile. But that evening at which Mr Berlusconi told the country has followed an entirely different story. One concern, his and Berlusconi, well above the normal level of defense of a law under consideration by the Court. Continue reading ...

It was the elite of the working class. Port workers Italians between the Sixties and Seventies were the spearhead of a world, that of working in full transformation. And they were, with the arrival of the meeting and with the close of privatization, one of the most damaged, which has undergone a much more profound and serious than many others. And above all before. In particular, a "collapse" has been all the port companies, pass by groups of work of purely public companies in every respect. ... Continue reading

A slow, disorganized, old man. That puts us at the bottom of the charts. Today the new rules of civil procedure do not solve the knots of the costs of organizational machine

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the civil justice system continues to show significant critical aspects, the excessive time in the definition of disputes end up making uncertain and ineffective the same rules. Weigh especially deficiencies in the organization of resources and litigation significantly higher than that of major European countries. Is not a politician who writes this review sharp and unequivocal on civil justice in our country. To write is the governor of the Bank of Italy Dragons in the annual report of 2008. And again, says the chairman of the Bar Council of Milan Paolo Giuggioli, which are now known 'statistics and analysis that is regularly put under the magnifying glass that delays and inefficiencies of the Italian justice, showing clearly the gap widening our country from other European countries, and its positioning is certainly not flattering in various world rankings, amongst these is that made annually by the World Bank, in which our civil justice system is 156 th place, behind countries such as Angola, Gabon, Guinea and others. "Continue reading ...

Lidia Menapace, nom de guerre Bruna. Critical voice and heretical of a left that seems to lose its past, speaks of the partisan movement as an awareness of political, civil and military

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It was a partisan, a member of Catholic first and then the founder of Il Manifesto, public administration and key senators and voice of the women's movement and pacifism Italian. Lidia Menapace is not just a piece of our memory, but especially today active observers of our society and critical voice of a sinister and heretical large, secular, democratic. And he continues to exercise its right to criticize "The only people who can convene April 25 are the partisans, the Partisans, because after it was relegated to the margins of history, have tried to suppress it, and that this piece of history has never been digested, the more reason we autoconvochiamo. And it is useless for us was at pains to say "you must go here, you have to go to." But when ever. It is an invasion of the field among the most intolerable. "Continue reading ...

It seems to go back 30 years. When Aeneas was still called the CNEN and the nuclear represented the utopia of modernity. Then came the injury and the major thrust of a formidable anti-nuclear movements, broad and inclusive, who won a refrendum deleting the atom to matriciana. Today Berlusconi raises, with the help of Sarkozy, the nuclearedi third generation. We spoke with the physicist and former lawmaker, Massimo Scalia. Continue reading ...

It's "Heart of Fire", of Luigi Falorni (Germany / Italy / Austria / France, 2008) the winner of the fifth edition of "Premio Amnesty," a recognition that the Italian section of Amnesty International gives, under the Giffoni Film Festival, the film has been able to better represent and promote the issues related to human rights.