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Italy
They say the Italians are beautiful and it is true — but not on this beach
This year’s session, which begins today, will entail a significant amount of weighty business
It is time that the European left grew up. Prattling on about Mussolini and Marshal Pétain is passé
Italy’s ruling political party speaks as if victory is inevitable
- They use epithets such as ‘neo-fascist’, ‘post-fascist’ and ‘far right’ or ‘the heir to Mussolini’
The wine and spritzes flow all day in Venice’s bàcari — traditional, low-key taverns — while bitesize, freshly — made cicchetti provide sustenance
Sometimes I wish I’d stayed up in the Apennines where there were no mosquitoes, just giant wasps
The stories are world-hoppers, set in Italy, America, Siberia, Krakow and Berlin
