Jacob Christensen » Italy http://jacobchristensen.name Notes from the Outside of the Inside Wed, 16 May 2012 10:38:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Il Divo http://jacobchristensen.name/2009/07/10/il-divo/ http://jacobchristensen.name/2009/07/10/il-divo/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:46:38 +0000 Jacob Christensen http://jacobchristensen.name/?p=3417
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    Could any Danish politician be the subject of a similar film? Perhaps Erik Ninn-Hansen, even if he is more of a Dick Cheney figure to follow Ebert’s analysis.

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    ]]>     http://jacobchristensen.name/2009/07/10/il-divo/feed/ 0     Monday Notes http://jacobchristensen.name/2009/06/15/monday-notes-2/ http://jacobchristensen.name/2009/06/15/monday-notes-2/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:33:39 +0000 Jacob Christensen http://jacobchristensen.name/?p=3328 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Denmark makes it to foreign media. But for all the wrong reasons.

    Food for thought: Imagine how the world would react if the Germans tried the same. But ok: Italian fascism was all fun and games.

    If you have an accident in Denmark after surgeries’ closing time, don’t bother calling the emergency doctor. Just get the undertaker.

    What politics in Denmark is really about these days: Children’s lunches in daycare centres.

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    ]]>     http://jacobchristensen.name/2009/06/15/monday-notes-2/feed/ 0     Italy and Other Disasters http://jacobchristensen.name/2008/08/03/italy-and-other-disasters/ http://jacobchristensen.name/2008/08/03/italy-and-other-disasters/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:42:50 +0000 Jacob Christensen http://jacobchristensen.name/?p=2160
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    Luxembourg – 80500
    Malta – 53400
    Norway – 53000
    USA – 45800
    Ireland – 43100
    Switzerland – 41100
    Iceland – 38800
    Netherlands – 38500
    Canada – 38400
    Denmark – 37400
    Sweden – 36500
    Belgium – 35300
    Finland – 35300
    UK – 35100
    Germany – 34200
    France – 33600
    EU – 32300
    Italy – 30400
    Spain – 30100
    Greece – 29200
    Slovenia – 27200
    Czech Rep – 24200
    Portugal – 21700
    Estonia – 21100
    Slovakia – 20300
    Hungary – 19000
    Lithuania – 17700
    Latvia – 17400
    Poland – 16300
    Turkey – 12900
    Romania – 11400
    Bulgaria – 11300

    The CIA World Factbook was the Lazy Blogger’s guide to economic data here.

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    ]]>     http://jacobchristensen.name/2008/08/03/italy-and-other-disasters/feed/ 0     Say What?!? http://jacobchristensen.name/2008/08/03/say-what/ http://jacobchristensen.name/2008/08/03/say-what/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:48:59 +0000 Jacob Christensen http://jacobchristensen.name/?p=2158
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    But Italy is far more vulnerable than the other economies of the Old Continent because it has been stagnating in the last 15 years. Italian income per-capita fell below not only the EU-15, but also the EU-19 average (including also Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, and Poland).

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    ]]>     http://jacobchristensen.name/2008/08/03/say-what/feed/ 0     Germany vs. Italy http://jacobchristensen.name/2008/04/29/germany-vs-italy/ http://jacobchristensen.name/2008/04/29/germany-vs-italy/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:01:09 +0000 Jacob Christensen http://jacobchristensen.name/?p=1645
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    On Monday night, the area around Rome’s city hall rang to chants of “Duce! Duce!”, the term adopted by Italy’s dictator, Benito Mussolini, equivalent to the German “Führer”. Supporters of the new mayor gave the fascist Roman straight-arm salutes.

    I remember listening to a Danish radio programme back in the 1990s which debated why Italian Fascism is seen as harmless compared with German Nazism and the participants – who were experts on Italy and Germany, respectively1 – argued that there is a long history – ranging back to before WWI – of demonising Germans while Italians generally are represented as spontaneous and essentially harmless beings.

    You are free to imagine how international media would have reported a similar incident in Munich.

    1. In case anybody wonder, I think the participants were Thomas Harder and Per Øhrgaard

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    ]]>     http://jacobchristensen.name/2008/04/29/germany-vs-italy/feed/ 0     Giovanni Sartori on Berlusconi http://jacobchristensen.name/2008/04/14/giovanni-sartori-on-berlusconi/ http://jacobchristensen.name/2008/04/14/giovanni-sartori-on-berlusconi/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:26:16 +0000 Jacob Christensen http://jacobchristensen.name/?p=1597 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> YouTube is good for something: Here is the Great Sartori speaking

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    ]]>     http://jacobchristensen.name/2007/05/06/shocking-news-from-italy/feed/ 0     Christian Science Monitor on the Political Divide in Europe http://jacobchristensen.name/2006/05/02/christian-science-monitor-on-the-political-divide-in-europe/ http://jacobchristensen.name/2006/05/02/christian-science-monitor-on-the-political-divide-in-europe/#comments Tue, 02 May 2006 22:36:37 +0000 Jacob Christensen http://jacobchristensen.name/?p=132
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