As I read this article, my mind is drawn back to a little suburb. It is waning. There is some hubbub around me. As I walk I see cheerful inns, they have wooden tables and warm LED lights. People are happy, sipping red wine and laughing thunderously. I detect the

My Europe is a social utopia, imagined by people who had seen the horrors of the Second World War, and who imagined a different political form for countries that had been adversaries until then. Europe is a unique social and political experiment in the world, certainly with many flaws, but

How difficult is it for a young person today to find work? It’s the scourge of the century and every day we hear news about precariousness, abuses and work difficulties. This story takes us into the England of a group of young people who have decided to tell their stories

At first glance, Vittoria’s story might seem like a simple description of a job: a shoemaker. Images of nails, soldering, shoes and paint flash across the screen. Through the video we enter a bit into the backstage of a shoe store and even smell a bit of it. But Vittoria’s

The StoryAP Award came to a close in December 2021. The winner of the award has been Mirvat Sayegh’s story “War is like”, made with the support of UNHCR and Siamo Coop. We publish below the jury’s motivations, as well as the list of European finalists, and finally the list

Khalida Popal is the former captain of the Afghanistan women’s national soccer team. Sport has been for Khalida, since her childhood, a way to defend women’s rights. She discovered a passion for football as a child, playing with her brothers. As she grows up, she discovers that girls are no

On the occasion of what is currently happening in Afghanistan, we want to bring to attention one of the stories on the StoryAP portal, the story of Shikhali Mirzai. I met the author personally in France, thanks to a European project, and it was a truly memorable meeting for me.

“War is like ..”: what is war like? Can we Westerners really imagine what war is like and what impact it has on the lives of people who, in one way or another, survive? As I listen to the story of Mirvat, a young Syrian who fled the war in

On May 9, 1950, the French foreign minister, Robert Schuman, in a famous speech, set out his idea of ​​a new form of cooperation between European nations, especially with the aim of avoiding further wars. A first step towards this union took place with the Treaty of Paris of April

On 21 April 130 migrants lost their lives in a shipwreck in the Sicilian channel. Three boats, in danger due to the rough seas, asked for help for two days, without receiving help from the Italian, Maltese or Libyan authorities. The Ocean Viking ship of Sos Mediterranee, and three merchant

Yesterday, March 17, the italian Senate’s Constitutional Affairs Commission unanimously approved the bill establishing, on March 18, the National Day in memory of the victims of the Coronavirus epidemic. In fact, it was March 18, 2020 when the army trucks left Bergamo, taking away the victims of the pandemic. Today

On the one hand, I feel within me the pride of coming from that land, Calabria, a beautiful land but torn by interests and indifference. I feel that there we can live a different life, in a certain sense “truer” and closer to the needs common to every human being,