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«If the European Union wants to be serious about our security and global peace, it must cut ties with all dictatorships and accelerate the green and just transition of its economies», the Fridays For Future activist tells Open

Irina is 35 years old and originally from Kropyvnytsky, a town in central Ukraine.Fifteen years ago, after completing her studies, she arrived in Italy, in Perugia, to join her mother, who had already been in our country since 2000.«My mother came out of need, to work, like many other Ukrainian women did.For twenty years she has been assisting the elderly and disabled, she is a carer, as you say - she states -.He worked in many families, then, when he could, he had us arrive:first my brother then me." A path completely similar to that of the family of her partner, Oleksy.«My mother also left our city, Starokostjantyniv, twenty years ago, first to work as a family assistant, then as a social-health worker.After a few years, when she stabilized, we arrived with a family reunion.But today our thoughts are more than ever in Ukraine."Irina and Olesky are struggling to sleep these days, their cell phones ring constantly, the horror of war arrives on WhatsApp in a constant flow of images, vid...

  The conflict of recent days in Ukraine, whose sovereignty is now hostage to Russian bombs, has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to seek shelter in surrounding countries.Faced with the ongoing humanitarian crisis at its borders, the European Union has said it is ready to provide assistance common answer, with a series of actions aimed primarily at ensuring the safety of the exiles. The first provides for an allocation in favor of neighboring European states:Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania, towards which the refugees are headed.Sums intended to cover humanitarian aid will also be given to Ukraine itself to deal with internally displaced people.Alongside economic contributions, the establishment of a European "solidarity platform" is being discussed, to coordinate operations in collaboration with community agencies, the European Asylum Agency and Frontex, which will deal with all aspects of the humanitarian crisis . The most significant element of this response is ce...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked international indignation and a feeling of understandable and shareable compassion towards the population attacked and threatened by the bombings.Across Europe and beyond, countries have opened their borders to welcome Ukrainian asylum seekers and refugees. Read also >> Fleeing from Ukraine:first the children, then the white women and men and finally the Africans The decision unanimous of the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) to invoke Directive 55 of 2001 on temporary protection, adopted over twenty years ago in the aftermath of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, gave Ukrainian citizens (with a limit, however, to those of other nationalities coming from the Eastern European country) access to various services social issues such as housing, education and healthcare by debureaucratizing each nation's laborious asylum process. The response to the crisis that broke out on February 24th is very different from what we have witnessed...

I found myself in Italy almost unconsciously.It's as if I've always lived there:like those born there, I have never had a choice to make.I had not yet turned two when I was catapulted to the outskirts of Naples, to escape the economic and social devastation of post-Soviet Ukraine. I grew up hearing myself called Andrew, in kindergarten as well as by my parents.When my mother explained to me the reason for thatAndriy I struggled to understand the paperwork I rummaged around the house.I thought they were referring to my father, my namesake (common practice in Eastern European countries), but then I read my date of birth. When I arrived it was 1999.In the same year, the Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko also landed in Italy, with whom most Italians would end up associating my country, and therefore me too, at least until the political upheavals of the last decade.While I was growing up he became a star of Silvio Berlusconi's Milan, and I slowly became convinced that even Andriy I...