Tag Archives: Lombardy

COVID-19: Lessons from Lombardy

April 27, 2020

0 Comments

5 Civil Defense Volunteers

Two months after the start of the coronavirus epidemic in Italy, some important lessons can be learned from the response to the crisis in the northern regions of the country. In Lombardy, one of the hardest-hit areas in the entire world, public officials insist they did everything possible to contain the outbreak from the start, […]

Continue reading...

Catalonia and the ‘Europe of Regions’

October 24, 2017

0 Comments

Catalonia

– by Andrew Spannaus – Political debate across Europe has been shaken by the clash between the pro-independence faction in the Spanish region of Catalonia, and the national institutions of Spain, raising thorny issues about autonomy, national sovereignty and the European Union. The Catalans, who organized a referendum on independence that was formally prohibited and […]

Continue reading...