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Former Uffizi chief Eike Schmidt enters race to become mayor of Florence
Eike Schmidt, the former director of the Uffizi galleries in Florence, has announced he is running to be the city’s mayor, ending months of speculation about his political ambitions. Schmidt will compete in the municipal June election as part of a right-wing alliance comprising prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, Forza Italia and the […]
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We are ‘almost alone’ amid hundreds of migrant arrivals, says Lampedusa mayor
The mayor of Lampedusa says the island is “almost alone” in dealing with the arrival of hundreds of migrants from northern Africa. More than 100 migrants have arrived on the small Mediterranean island in the last few days. The main reception centre was built to accommodate 250 people, but is currently overpopulated and houses more […]
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