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SOMETHING TO VISIT IN CALABRIA—MARCH
CRISTIANO DE ANDRE 'IN CALABRIA
Friday, March 14, 2014 21:00
Location: Rende (CS)
Cristiano De Andrè in the new tour "As in hea-
ven, so on earth at the Garden Theatre Makes
A FAIR Tropea
Sunday, March 23,
2014
Location: Tropea (VV)
Fair Annunciation of
Tropea 2014 "Pearl of
the Tyrrhenian" is a
show of ancient tradi-
tion that the beautiful
Calabrian town
CIRCUS OF LIDIA TOGNI
From February 27, 2014 March
9, 2014 al
Location: Rende (CS)
The International Circus Festi-
val of Lidia Togni Rende (CS)
SAILING THE HIGH SEAS
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Location: Tropea (VV)
Offshore Sailing: 2013-2014 Winter
Championship Vibo Marina - Tropea
VINTAGE MARKET
From January 19 to April 30, 2014
Location: Rende (CS)
Vintage and Crafts Market in Rende
Well-alternative puts on the first VINTAGE
MARKET AND CRAFTS & ARTS AND CRAFTS Sun-
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buffet FESTIVAL OF PEAS AND BE-
ANS
29 and March 30, 2014
Location: Montegiordano (CS)
Festival of the peas and beans
V edition in Montegiordano
THE MYTHICAL STOMP IN CALABRIA
7:08 Marzo 2014 hours 21:00
Location: Catanzaro (CZ)
Music events in 2014
STARTS WITH LEGENDARY STOMP
Politeama Catanzaro
SAILING THE HIGH SEAS
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Location: Tropea (VV)
Offshore Sailing: 2013-2014 Win-
ter Championship Vibo Marina -
Tropea
THEATRE ROME MORELLI
Friday, March 7, 2014 21:00
Location: Cosenza (CS)
Teatro Morelli: Call me by name
- white space - Season MORE -
Act III Focus Calabria
DENISE KING IN
CONCERT
Sunday, March 16,
2014 21:00
Location: Reggio Cala-
bria
Denise King Quartet at
the Politeama Syracuse
Reggio Calabria
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ENGLISH
ITALIANO
TEDESCO
Renzi sworn in as new
Italian prime minister
Italy rang the changes on Saturday when the
country’s youngest ever prime minister Matteo
Renzi and his new cabinet were sworn in mar-
king a new and ambitious era for the financially-
troubled nation.
The swearing in ceremony took place one week
after Renzi toppled Enrico Letta’s government in
an intra-party dispute.
The 39-year old’s 16-member cabinet is one of
the smallest and with an average age of 48 the
youngest in recent Italian history.
With half of the ministers being women it also
underlines the image of a fresh start on which
Renzi has built his reputation.
Federica Mogherini is the second woman in a row to be foreign minister after outgoing Emma Bonino, while Roberta Pinotti becomes the first
woman to hold the job of defence minister.
Renzi is the third prime minister to reach office without winning an election.
And among the major concerns for many Italians are the lack of a mandate from voters and lack of experience within the cabinet.
One passerby said: “There’s change in the air, but how can I say, experience is often quoted as a fundamental ingredient for success, many of
these ministers have no experience. This doesn’t mean we need to condemn them in advance. But let’s see if they are able to win the confidence
of the electors in the field.”
The first tests for Mr. Renzi’s new government will be a vote of confidence in the Senate, scheduled for Monday, while another will follow on Tue-
sday in the Lower House.
AT A GLANCE
MARKET DAYS
The market usually opens by 8am and closes 1pm / 1.30pm
Pizzo : Thursday , off the top road in Pizzo
Vibo Valentia : Tuesday and Saturday, pedestrian high street and
back streets
Filadelfia : Thursday in the main Piazza
Lamezia : Saturday , by the train station
Vibo Marina : Monday , in the old station yard
Tropea: Saturday morning in the center
All the markets sell local home grown fruit and vegetables, wine, che-
eses, meats and breads.
Various clothing, household goods, knick knacks, ornaments and the
stuff you usually find at markets.
Visiting a market is always a great adventure, there is always a
bargin to be had. Don't forget, barter !!!
Orange rice cake by By Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo
Preparation method
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Grease and line a 24cm/10in loose-
bottomed cake tin with greaseproof paper.
Place the milk, vanilla pod, lemon zest and sugar in a large saucepan and bring
to the boil. Add the rice and simmer on a medium to low heat for about 20–25
minutes, until the rice is al dente and has absorbed the milk but still has a creamy consistency. Remove from the heat and allow to cool. Remove vanilla
pod and lemon zest.
In a bowl, whisk the egg yolks and liqueur until creamy. In another bowl, whisk
the egg whites until stiff peaks form when the whisk is removed.
Add the egg yolk mixture to the cooled rice, then fold in the stiffened egg
whites, followed by the raisins and orange zest. Pour in the prepared tin and
bake in the oven for one hour. Serve warm or cold, sprinkled with a little extra orange zest to finish.
Ingredients:
1.7 litre/3 pints milk
1 vanilla pod
½ lemon, zest only, in large pieces
200g/7oz sugar
300g/10½oz arborio rice
5 large free-range eggs, separated
50ml/2fl oz orange liqueur
40g/1½oz raisins
1 orange, zest only, grated, plus extra for
serving
2 tbsp parsley
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Can new prime minister Matteo Renzi fulfil
the hopes of Italy's youth?
Soaring youth unemployment leaves many with no op-
tion but to migrate to countries with better economies
and more jobs
"What do I think of Matteo Renzi? I don't trust his face," said Danielle
Barrese, 23, a trainee chef from Calabria. "And I don't trust any promi-
ses made to young people in this country."
Renzi, who triggered a generational shift in Italian politics on Saturday
when, aged 39, he became Italy's youngest prime minister, has made
bold promises to give work back to the country's chronically underem-ployed youth.
But the staggeringly popular Renzi is drawing sneers and yawns from young people in Italy's black hole of joblessness, Reggio Calabria, in
the tip of the country's toe. "They have been promising us the earth
since 1994 and now it's just the rest of the world that is left laughing – at us," said Salvatore Crucitti, 23, a conservatoire-trained musician
who, like Barrese, wants to emigrate.
After leaving his job as mayor of Florence, Renzi has promised a rapid-
fire programme of reforms to lift the economy after he took the top job
by ousting his Democratic party colleague Enrico Letta. This weekend he made a bold start, announcing that half the members of his first
cabinet would be women. But the bike-riding, smooth-talking Renzi has his work cut out.
The predicament of Italy's lost generation is dire. With more than
372,000 firms closing last year, the percentage of 15- to 24-year-olds out of work has risen to 41.6%, double the UK rate. And, unlike their parents, who often enjoyed jobs for life, 90% of those who
secure jobs today are offered temporary contracts.
Renzi faces one of his toughest tests in Reggio Calabria, where youth unemployment has rocketed to 68% from 45% a year ago. "There has been a big increase in the number of middle-class people coming through the office," said Valeria Bonforte, an official
with the CGIL union who helps people to register as unemployed.
In the 1960s, when she was three, Bonforte's family emigrated to the US to run a pizzeria in New Jersey, only to return to Reggio
Calabria when she was 12. "My father wanted us kids to grow up in Italy, but every day I think of leaving and how it would have
been better to stay in the US," she said.
Her daughter, Ivana Calabro, 26, is due to graduate this year with an economics degree. She has been working her way through
university as a children's entertainer and in a call centre, where her contract is renewed monthly and a full week's work gives her a take-home monthly wage of €500 (£413).
"There is nothing here and we should leave," she said, stirring a coffee at a café on Reggio Calabria's main street, Corso Garibaldi.
Sitting beside her, her boyfriend, Gregorio Fotia, 27, reeled off the list of part-time jobs he had before becoming unemployed in 2012.
"I was a barman, labourer, trumpet player and pizza-maker, and I have worked off the books," he said. Living at home, Fotia sur-
vives thanks to the pension received by his father, a retired railway worker. "Ivana and I have been together for 10 years, but we just can't afford to marry."
If they manage to emigrate, the couple will join an exodus from Italy, rivalling the great waves of emigration in the last century, which has left 500,000 Italians living abroad as clandestine migrants, according to newspaper La Repubblica.
At first glance the centre of Reggio Calabria is an architectural jewel. Its art nouveau palazzi slope down to a stunning promenade.
But yards from where Ivana and Gregorio sip their coffees sits a head-high pile of rubbish, a sign of the city's drift into dysfunction since the council was dissolved in 2012 due to suspicions of collusion with Calabria's feared 'Ndrangheta mafia. "Reggio Calabria is
divided into 17 zones of mafia control, each containing two or three crime families," said Francesco Spano, 32, a lawyer and acti-vist with the anti-mob group Libera. "Up to 70% of shops pay protection money."
He said the 'Ndrangheta has had a hand in keeping Reggio Calabria downtrodden. "It makes the jobs they offer people more grate-
fully received," he said. Many families once relied on jobs with the state railway network and the 'Ndrangheta has moved into the void. "Half the jobs are directly or indirectly linked to the mafia, and two-thirds of the people in those jobs are fully aware of that,
meaning support for the mafia is widespread. The first thing Matteo Renzi needs to do is free the south from the mafia."
"I was born here and will be forced to leave the city I love," said Annalisa Zema, 31, a trainee psychologist. "My friends are
working off the books in bars and shops earning €500 a month and I don't have much hope that Matteo Renzi will be able to chan-
ge that."
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Silvio Berlusconi takes credit for Italy’s first Oscar win in 15 years – but tax fraud
conviction means he couldn't travel to attend ceremony
Berlusconi's Mediaset film company produced The Great Beauty
It won best foreign film at Sunday's Oscar ceremony in Los Angeles
He has been prime minister of Italy three times. But now Silvio Berlusconi has gone one better, winning an Oscar - Italy’s first Academy
award in 15 years.
The billionaire mogul’s Mediaset film company produced The Great Beauty, which picked up the coveted gong for best foreign language
film in Sunday night’s awards.
Director Paolo Sorrentino credited everyone from Diego Maradona to legendary director Martin Scorsese for his victory with the film
which reveals the empty worlds of decadent high society in Rome.
But Berlusconi was unable to attend the Oscars ceremony personally, due to a travel ban imposed last year after a conviction for fraud.
However he appears at pains make sure his contribution to La Grande Belleza receives the recognition it deserves.
An editorial in the Berlusconi family newspaper Il Giornale crowed: ‘Silvio Berlusconi, founder and major shareholder in Mediaset, belie-
ved in Sorrentino’s project, produced and distributed the film.’
Berlusconi encouraged ambition in the making of the film and had no fear of investing his own money, it said. ‘He understood that cine-
ma is a resource that had contributed to Italy’s successes, ’ it added.
Left wing politicians who are trying to take the credit for Italy's victory are missing the point - the film is a criticism of their society,
'empty and hypocritical'.
Berlusconi’s eldest son, Pier Silvio Berlusconi, 45, who runs Mediaset, said that the family company ‘has supported Sorrentino since his
first film, and remained at his side, believing in him and taking risks right up until the night of the Oscars.’ ‘For us it has been a marvel-
lous adventure’, he said.
His passport was confiscated, denying him access to his properties in the Alps and the Caribbean.
A request to leave Italy to go to a meeting of the anti-Europeans parties in Holland was refused on Tuesday.
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