The Election in Italy towards the Right Wing Government

February 18, 2023

In this video recorded during the Atlantic Dialogues, our Columnist Mr. Helmut Sorge interviews Mr. Vincenzo Amendola, member of the Italian Parliament on his insights about the election in Italy towards the right wing government. Mr. Vincenzo answers questions on wether the present italian right wing govenment can achieve what most previous governments did not achieve ? But also, what are the eventual reforms of the government ? What can be done to foster migration and climate change ?

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Helmut Sorge
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Helmut Sorge is a columnist at the Policy Center for the New South, where he publishes opinion pieces in the format of international press reviews of current events related to the Middle East and European affairs, and conducts interviews with high level policy makers and PCNS researchers. He is also a lecturer on journalism and the media. For over 40 years, Helmut Sorge served as a writer, former Foreign correspondent, Foreign editor, and Middle East expert for Germany's leading newsmagazine "Der Spiegel" to Washington, London, Paris and Los Angeles. He reported from Vietnam, the Middle East, wrote about safaris, nuclear accidents, visited prisoners on death row in the United States. The German weekly “Gala” summarized in 2011, when his latest book, a collection of biographies ...

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