After several hours of a heated session, Italy’s drug regulation agency, the AIFA, authorized the use of the abortion pill Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, that has been available in many European countries since the 1990’s. Read the rest of this entry »

The Europeans woke up this morning to realize that their low participation in the voting for new members of their Parliament meant a big upset in many of their countries. The Center right parties won in large countries including France, Germany and Italy, while the Socialists were the big losers. Read the rest of this entry »

The Italian government of Berlusconi proposed recently the creation of some measures against the Gypsies living in Italy, particularly the fingerprinting of adults and children. Unlike conquering Tatars, Mongolians and Turks, the Roma (as the Gypsies are known) arrived on the European continent in smaller groups. Read the rest of this entry »

Wars, killings, hunger… we are so used to it daily on the news that we seem to have become immune to it or hardened to others suffering. But a picture of the covered bodies of two dead young gypsy girls on a beach in Italy Read the rest of this entry »

Italy has chosen and while the results of the elections I am sure are welcome among many of the Republicans in the US, I am not sure many Italians feel the same way. Yesterday, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s third richest man and owner of the most important commercial TV channels in the country, became prime minister for the third time. Read the rest of this entry »