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Quirico, Domenico
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4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
The West to blame for famines
After a lengthy period of drought more than eleven million people in northeast Africa are threatened by a famine that is causing thousands to flee Somalia. Not the weather but the West is to blame, writes the liberal daily La Stampa: "The great hunger has nothing to do with meteorology but is the result of a cruel vicious circle. In Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya people have lived with droughts from time immemorial and they know how to deal with them. What is killing them, what is turning them into refugees, is war and politics. Somalia has been plagued by famine and war for twenty years now. The vigorous West, which has no problems filling its belly, first observed the situation with great interest and then sulkily fuelled the war to get rid of the Islamist fundamentalists without dirtying its own hands. And in the end it turned away. Now the al-Shabaab [militant Islamist movement in Somalia] has announced that it will allow aid organisations to enter the areas it has under its control to help the people. Before - yet again - it's too late."
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More from the press review on the subject » Security Policy / Crises / War, » Natural disasters, » Natural disasters, » Catastrophe, » Africa, » Global, » Somalia
Sarkozy in trouble over submarine affair
According to media reports, handwritten notes on the Karachi affair that incriminate President Nicolas Sarkozy have turned up at the Paris budget ministry. Millions in bribes are said to have come from France for sales of French submaries to Pakistan. Apparently the payments were stopped, after which a bomb attack which killed eleven French citizens was carried out in Karachi. The affair is beginning to pose a genuine threat to Sarkozy, writes the liberal daily La Stampa: "If it hadn't been for those 11 victims it would have remained a petty scandal. ... But the eleven coffins have turned an old story into a dark affair that could climb the steps of the Elysée palace. For at the end of the tunnel of omissions, half-truths and state secrets which two examining magistrates are trying to investigate is Sarkozy's shadow. His name came up in the course of the investigation in connection with bribes and kick-back payments via sham companies, ... or in other words with details about the very feudalism of dirty money that Sarkozy himself condemns and has promised to destroy."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Justice, » France
The sole culprit
The sentence given to ex stock trader Jérôme Kerviel clears his former employer Société Générale of all blame, the liberal daily La Stampa complains: "Guilty, absolutely and above all entirely on his own, is the judgement pronounced in a financial scandal that threatened to be the downfall of this giant of the French bank system. … The sentence handed down to Kerviel automatically absolves the bank system of all blame. It has found the culprit for all its sins … . A mild sentence would have made Kerviel a victim of the speculation system, a hack spurred on by the bank which covered for him and helped him as long as he made a profit and then repudiated him once the miracle turned out to be nothing but a mirage - as he himself doggedly claimed for the duration of the trial."
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More from the press review on the subject » Banks, » Justice, » France
The boss of Le Monde is disowned by his staff
On Tuesday, May 22nd, the staff of the French daily 'Le Monde' opposed the renewal of Jean-Marie Colombani's contract as head of the paper and the press group that he created. Domenico Quirico, Paris correspondent for the daily, considers the sanctioning vote. "This was in fact the other presidential election. Because 'Le Monde' is by definition Frances flagship paper, the one that counts, on sale everyday as the counterweight of the other power, [of government]. ... For years, Jean Marie Colombani personified 'Le Monde', with his style, his efficiency, his shortcomings, his contradictions and above all his difficult quest for a new line ... . 'Le Monde' remains influential and revered. In thirteen years the group's turnover went up from 90 to 600 million euros. But that was no doubt not enough. Beyond simple arithmetic is the more complex question: what will Le Monde become under the reign of Sarkozy?"
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