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28/08/2008

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Sorgi, Marcello

5 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

La Stampa - Italy | 27/03/2008

'Made in Italy' products threatened by mozzarella crisis

Over the past few days, the Italian authorities have revealed that several dozens of buffalo farms surpass the authorized level of dioxin in milk used for mozzarella cheese. South Korea and Japan have reacted by temporarily blocking imports of buffalo mozzarella and Brussels has threatened to decree an embargo if the Italian authorities fail to provide detailed information. Marcello Sorgi fears for the Italian economy. "With the Alitalia crisis, the crisis hitting the exportation of this delicious cheese has suddenly become a real emergency. It risks repercussions on an already ailing Italian economy. How can this have happened in a country that, not so long ago, was classified the sixth most innovative and developing country in the world? … It is likely that this crisis will lead to drop in all exportation of national food, if not of all things 'made in Italy'."

La Stampa - Italy | 02/04/2007

Nouveaux Riches can thank Tony Blair

The journalist Marcello Sorgi looks at Tony Blair's economic record. "If you want to know which area has shown the greatest growth in the Blair decade, the answer is wealth. Not traditional or family wealth, protected by good manners or the outmoded ways country gentry. No, in fact it's the Nouveaux Riches, those ultra rich with their rites and symbols, super houses, private planes and huge yachts. ... At this time of analysis, as the leader's exit approaches, the paradox of a left wing government coming to the aid of the most affluent classes can be expressed in one single statistic. in 2006, the assets of the ten richest people in the United Kingdom is close to 60 billion sterling (nearly 90 billion euros)."

La Stampa - Italy | 25/09/2006

Tony Blair's legacy

A few months away from his departure from the head of government, Tony Blair is presiding, for one last time, over the annual Labour Party conference that opened in Manchester on September 24th. The editorialist Marcello Sorgi looks back on the career of the Prime Minister and pleads for him not to be forgotten, remaining a model for the Italian left. "A strange silence accompanied the slow stage exit of the most charismatic leader in the history of the party. A long farewell that began in Manchester... Blair had been in Europe and not just in Italy, for all of the left-wing, traditionalist or reformist, an irrefutable and unprecedented example... . In Great Britain, Blair will leave behind a country cleaned-up. Thus, the success of a policy, the renewed socialism of New Labour will survive its leader and make a dignified entrance into the history of the left across the world.

La Stampa - Italy | 11/09/2006

A "Civil War" in the Labour Party

Following revolt in the heart of the Labour Party, Tony Blair announced that he will give up his position of Prime Minister within twelve months. Gordon Brown, the current Chancellor of the Exchequer, suspected of being disloyal towards Blair, may not be the chosen successor. The journalist Marcello Sorgi takes another look at the anti-Blair conspiracy. "After the announcement of the somewhat un-spontaneous withdrawal of the British Prime Minister, 'civil war' has been declared among Labour members for the direction of the party. The pact between the Prime minister and his right-hand man, is going through a dangerously rough patch, Blair suspecting Brown of being behind the convulsions of his party. The place where the alliance between the two leaders had been sealed twelve years, the restaurant 'Granita', has changed names. It is now called 'Desperados'. Under the circumstances this appears to be a premonitory sign."

La Stampa - Italy | 16/02/2006

Berlusconi in talks with the extreme right

In the run-up to the April 9 legislative elections, Marcello Sorgi analyses the possible consequences of the electoral law reinstating proportional representation that Silvio Berlusconi succeeded in getting approved and which gives extremists a voice [in government]. In order to win, the head of the Italian government needs the votes of the party of Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of 'Il Duce', whose ranks include notorious neo-fascists. A situation that the editorial writer considers dangerous. "Day after day we are counting the costs of proportional representation. The weight of the parties is growing before our eyes, but individual interests are hard to reconcile with those of coalitions which, to remain afloat, will have to plug up the breaches that are sure to open."

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