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Germany and Italy Ask Brussels for a Brake on New EU Laws
Politico Europe reports that Germany, Italy and Belgium have asked the European Commission for an 'emergency brake' allowing member states to halt new EU legislation.
Saverio Gallo · 520 words
Recent headlines from this bureau
- Germany and Italy Ask Brussels for a Brake on New EU Laws
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- Italy's Electoral Reform Passes in Secret Ballot as Opposition Vows Court Fight
- Italy Still Draws Millionaires Despite 50 Percent Flat Tax Rise
- Diesel Tax Cut Expires, and Italy's Farmers and Fishers Count the Cost
- Italy's Rental Crisis Reaches the Budget Table
- 377 Animals Seized at Pozzallo, and the Mediterranean's Quiet Trade
- Italy's Firefighting Planes Come Home, and the South Counts a Harder Season
Geography & climate
Hot Mediterranean coasts, cool mountainous interior.
A long mountainous peninsula between two seas — the Sila and Aspromonte massifs, two coasts.
Economy & culture
Agriculture (citrus, bergamot), tourism, ports (Gioia Tauro), remittance-shaped economy.
Magna Graecia and Byzantine roots, Albanian and Greek minorities, the weight of the 'Ndrangheta and of emigration.