Saviano Roberto

Flare network, mapping Europe's mafia connections

Founded at the European parliament in June 2008, the anti-organised crime network want to rejig European laws and describe how EU money regenerates mafia-seized property. Interview with communications officer Roxana Smil

by Giacomo Rosso @ // 02/02/10

saviano roberto, network, europe, organized crime, corruption, youth, gang

Jeff Israely: 'In his fifteenth year in politics, Berlusconi looks more and more like a comedian'

The Paris-based American journalist, 41, is a correspondent for Time Magazine for southern Europe. His recently published 'Looks Like My Son Is Italian' is not a summary of Italian mentality, he says - 'I’m just balancing the scales' 

by Francesca Barca @ // 14/04/09

saviano roberto, stereotype , gianfranco fini, italy, silvio berlusconi, brunch, best of cafebabel.com

Claudio Stassi and Giovanni Di Gregorio 'didn't want to show people being killed in Brancaccio'

The 2006 comic book has been already been translated into French and Spanish. Both the author and scriptwriter are based in Barcelona, having escaped Sicily because 'the mafia culture is gaining strength'

by Fabio De Franceschi @ // 17/03/09

saviano roberto, silvio berlusconi, sicily, brunch, comics, roberto saviano, culture

Telejato: family-run, mini-CNN in Partinico, Sicily

Pino Maniaci has created a family business through his miniature version of CNN. The ‘longest news programme in the world’, with its 150, 000 viewers, is a mini-broadcaster fighting against the local mafia, the Cosa Nostra

by Mattia Bergamini @ // 18/11/08

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Camorra: from Spain with fury

by Anna Castellari @ // 20/06/07

saviano roberto, languages, italy, tower of babel, southern eu, life-long learning, gomorra