Leaving
A couple of weeks ago Greece exited the bailout programmes that kept it under close control of the Troika for nearly a decade. Yet the country has not left austerity behind, as the economy and society are still heavily affected by it – Elvira Krithari reports.
Every year, about 100,000 Balkan and Eastern European citizens seek to move out from their countries by applying for asylum to the EU. In rational terms, leaving might be the right thing to do, the mayor of Prishtina admits in an interview by Giovanni Vale, “but sentimentally everyone wants to stay.”
At the end of the Diciotti ship crisis, both the Italian and Albanian governments announced that 20 asylum seekers would be transferred from one country to the other. In fact, they will probably not leave Italy: so what was this all about? Nicola Pedrazzi has a few answers.
