In 2026, the number of applications for Schengen visas to tour operators increased by 15–25% compared with last season. The Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) estimates the share of multi-visas issued at 1–2% of tourists.

#ATOR #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #Italy #France #Schengenvisa

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The Italian government has approved a decree banning the wearing of burqas and niqabs in schools. Hijab remains permitted.

#burka #Italy #MinistryofEducationofItaly #niqab #teachersunions #school

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From January 2025 to June 2026, Russia reflagged 107 vessels linked to the «shadow fleet» under its own flag. 72 of them transported fossil fuels worth €7.5 billion to the global market, according to a study by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.

#IntershippingServicesLLC #EuropeanCommission #Italy #Libya #Russia #shadowfleet

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Venetian authorities are considering a sharp increase in the access fee for tourists starting in 2027. The fee could rise from the current €5–10 to €30–50 to curb the flow of day visitors.

#IlGazzettino #Venice #Italy #MicheleZuin #touristtax

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Giorgia Meloni said that her government is preparing two bills: one to ban face-covering veils in Italian schools and another to limit the number of foreign students in classrooms. The Italian prime minister said this on Sunday at the Fenix event, organized by the youth wing of her right-wing party, Brothers of Italy.

#FondazioneISMU #burka #GeorgeMeloni #Italy #Italianschools #niqab

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EU finance ministers in Dublin discussed introducing a Europe-wide windfall tax on energy companies amid near-record fuel and gas prices. The European Commission does not currently plan such a mechanism, but is ready to discuss it, and member states may introduce their own taxes.

#Germany #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #Italy #excessprofittax #France

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«Project» said in the announcement of its investigation «Travel Companions» that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Svetlana Polyakova, and Lyubov Kabaeva, the mother of Alina Kabaeva, regularly flew abroad together for vacations. According to the publication, they made such trips to Croatia, Turkey, and Italy on expensive business jets.

#Italy #RussianMinistryofForeignAffairs #project #SergeyLavrov #Turkey #Croatia

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At the Munich Security Conference forum, planners working with NATO said that Europe is not yet ready for a prolonged war of attrition with Russia. According to them, because public readiness is weak, NATO will have to base its planning on a shorter conflict scenario, while concerns about hybrid war with Moscow are intensifying debates over new defense coordination in Europe.

#Germany #europe #Italy #MunichSecurityConference #NATO #Russia

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Eski İtalyan general Roberto Vannacci’nin partisi «Futuro Nazionale» anketlerde %7,5’e ulaşıyor ve sonraki parlamento seçimlerinde Giorgia Meloni’nin müttefiki olabilir. The Telegraph’ın değerlendirmesine göre, böyle bir ittifak onun Ukrayna çizgisini zorlaştırabilir.

#WarinUkraine #GeorgeMeloni #Italy #rights #Russia #Ukraine

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«The Battle of Algiers» has been considered the most influential political film for 60 years now. The resonance after the release of this film, shot in the traditions of Italian neorealism, sparked a wave of decolonial movements in different countries. Gillo Pontecorvo’s film with Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack is included in rankings of the greatest cinema of all time, and the methods of underground struggle are still used by activists around the world, including Russia.

#20thcentury #decoloniality #GilloPontecorvo #Italy #Italianneorealism #movie #leftandright #protests #revolution #France #EnnioMorricone

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Today's Germany is a country of migrants. In some ways, even more so than the USA. From politics to culture, it has long relied on people with a migration background.

#Analytics #refugees #EastandWest #Germany #europe #Italy #xenophobia #culturalcode #Merkel #migrants #Myths #unificationofGermany #policy #rightandleft #Syria #Turkey #Emigration

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A retrospective of Artemisia Gentileschi at the Jacquemart-André Museum — the main Paris exhibition of the current season. The curators tried not to linger too much on the scandalous details of their heroine’s biography, which are now well known, but rather to take a closer look at her art. However, without the story of the rape of 17-year-old Gentileschi, it is hardly possible to penetrate her artistic world. The mission was made impossible by the artist herself: her art is the answer to her own biography. How else to explain the anger and rage that guided her brush, and the very choice of subjects in which the woman always dominates the man or avenges her sullied honor?‍

#ArtemisiaGentilesca #women #painting #historyofart #Italy #violence #Renaissance #feminism #essay

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