Following accusations of antisemitism and plagiarism, Harvard president Claudine Gay decided to step down. The announcement of his resignation will be made soon by the Corporation, the university’s governing body. She was the daughter of Haitian immigrants and became the first African-American woman to head America’s most famous university. His presidency was the shortest term […]
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The sensational mistake of the judges who overthrew the government in Portugal
A sensational miscarriage of justice may have been behind his involvement in the corruption investigation that led to the resignation of Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa. According to the publisher’s website CNN PortugalIn the statement, which cited defense sources for the defendants, the Prosecutor’s Office investigating the case would have incorrectly transcribed a wiretap, triggering […]
Lithium scandal shook Portugal: Prime Minister resigned
Portugal’s dream of becoming the European hub for lithium, a mineral central to the development of electric cars, could turn into a nightmare. Police raided Prime Minister Antonio Costa’s official residence as part of a corruption investigation and arrested his private secretary, Vítor Escária. This was announced by the Attorney General of Portugal. A few […]
Number 88 gets Meloni’s Finnish ally in trouble
Political storm in Finland when Economy Minister Vilhelm Junnila was forced to resign after only 10 days in office. The politician, a member of the far-right True Finns party, was forced to step down after fierce controversy over his previous Nazi-related statements, which have now resurfaced. “For the continuation of the government and Finland’s reputation, […]
Silvio Berlusconi returns home
Silvio Berlusconi may be discharged from the San Raffaele hospital in Milan late today, May 19th. The Forza Italia leader was hospitalized in intensive care on April 5 to treat pneumonia, which had manifested in the clinical picture revealing chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. He spent 12 days in intensive care before being moved to his regular […]
The Great Escape “Life Change” but for what? What’s behind the explosion of resignations? More than a million Italians quit their jobs each year, an expanding phenomenon after the Covid pandemic. So why are the Italians running away? All the numbers behind the “life-changing” rhetoric
More and more often, even here they call it the “Great Surrender.” A term that sounds better than “resign” and sums up the struggles of thousands of people who have decided to leave their jobs voluntarily. It’s a trend that has become important abroad during the pandemic, but has been around for years, even in […]
Swedish prime minister’s right-hand man resigns, fishes eel without permission
The Swedish prime minister’s right-hand man has resigned after being implicated in the illegal poaching of eel, an endangered fish, in the archipelago in the southeast of the country. Fishing of this species has been strictly restricted to professional fishermen since 2007 as it is a protected species. Peter Magnus Nilsson, a longtime journalist who […]
Avoiding work: why (even in Italy) many workers quit their jobs?
In the first nine months of 2022, there were one million 660,000 job cuts recorded in Italy. Compared to the same period in 2021, the increase cannot be ignored, equal to 22%. The data comes from the Department of Labor’s quarterly notices. The number represents employment relationships terminated due to resignations, not the number of […]
Credit Suisse Bank CEO resigns
© Salvatore DiNolfi/EPA Author: Lusa Thomas Gottstein, CEO of Credit Suisse since 2020, resigned from his position on Wednesday and will be replaced as of August 1 by Ulrick Korner, the bank involved in several still open scandals announced on Wednesday. David Miller and Michael Ebert will take over the management of the investment division, […]
Brussels: “We do not comment on democratic processes in third countries”
© Zurab Kurtsidike/EPA Author: João Francisco Guerreiro, TSF correspondent in Brussels On Thursday, European Commission spokesmen declined to comment on ongoing “political developments” in the UK. At a time when the resignation of the head of the British Government, Boris Johnson, was imminent, the spokesman for the community executive, Johannes Bahrke, assured that Brussels’ policy […]