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• Today we are going to talk about a phrase from the Pope that escaped the attention of the Italian media (but not the Ukrainians and Russians): in front of an audience of young Russian Catholics, the pontiff praised Peter the Great, Catherine II, the Empire, etc. “Great Mother Russia” . Is it a faux pas or a planned move?
• There is one way to interpret the anger and hatred that permeate the French demonstrations: France – Massimo Nava tells us – is the country with the most millionaires in Europe and has a growing imbalance between social classes.
• The Amazon is the world’s largest forest and a vital green lung for the entire terrestrial ecosystem. But Elena tells us that deforestation is causing great damage and today there are parts of the Amazon that are emitting even more carbon dioxide than they are capturing.
• The BRI, China’s economic initiative, was hailed as the largest and most ambitious infrastructure project of all time. But for some time now, Luca tells us, it seems to be the most gigantic “debt trap” of all time.
• Are we sure that tax breaks are enough to boost the birth rate? Gianluca took care of it on Thursday and we will take care of it again. Today, women’s historian Valeria Palumbo offers us her very personal and radical point of view. Think that this is a story that has always been written and thought by men and that we need to change our perspective. Yesterday women were used “to produce children for guns and factories, today for pensions.”
(Above: Vladimir Putin during a private audience at the Vatican on November 25, 2013. Photo Claudio Peri, Ansa)
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