Italy
The Italy-Albania migrant deal seems set for failure. One Albanian town still wants it to succeed.
A year after Italy signed a controversial migration deal with Albania, the detention facility built to house asylum-seekers in Albania stands empty as human rights groups call the migration deal cruel. But a remote village in northwestern Albania is still hopeful the plan will come to fruition.
Geologists edge closer to defining the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene Working Group is voting on a so-called Golden Spike, a sedimentary layer somewhere on Earth that best exemplifies the global impact of humans on planet Earth. It’s the last, big task in formally defining the Anthropocene, which is being proposed as a new age in geologic time.
Unusually warm seas kill off mussel harvests in Spain, leaving restaurant owners with limited options
Most Mediterranean mussels are grown in the Ebro Delta, in Spain’s northeast, and often enjoyed by consumers nearby. But this year’s Mediterranean harvest was nearly wiped out by unusually warm seas, forcing restaurant owners to import their mussels from other countries.
The Italian job: Part I
Critical State, a foreign policy newsletter by Inkstick Media, takes a deep dive this week into the prosecutor’s office in Rome, Italy. From 1975 to 1991, this office was able to use gatekeeping to shield politicians from corruption charges. When those protections ended, the stable coalition system was overturned.
Italy shifts to the right as voters reward Meloni’s party
The Brothers of Italy party has won the most votes in Italy’s national elections as vote counting comes to an end. The win will make Giorgia Meloni the country’s first woman premier and give the nation its first far-right-led government since World War II.