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Auchan-Conad-Raffaele Mincione WHAT A STRANGE TRIANGULATION. About journalists, cooperatives and trade unions

For financier Raffaele Mincione – former partner of Conad – 5 years and 6 months, plus 8,000 euro fine and perpetual disqualification from public office. I met Mauro Suttora in 2009. He told me that the publisher who had commissioned this article did not want to publish it. The affair ends with the investigation into the top management for corruption (2025), which could end ‘in tar and feathers’

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Is there a solution for the food we import from countries that use pesticides banned in Europe?

The Mercosur free trade agreement could be an opportunity to try to align the rules between South America and the European Union. Trade unions, such as Coldiretti, should not dissipate their forces on meaningless projects such as the no to ‘cultured meat’ or the production of dried pasta, and focus on reciprocity of import standards

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Why there will be a water crisis in Sicily even if it has rained for months

In many municipalities, water is already rationed. And we are still in the low season, as far as tourism is concerned, with Sicily being taken by storm for the holidays and the long bridge between Easter and the First of May, and with Agrigento, the Italian Capital of Culture 2025 which is expected to triple its number of presences. But with what water, if images of luxury B&Bs with water bins at the entrance for visitors and instructions in three languages on how to ‘wash up’ were already doing the rounds on the web last year?