Is a Tea Party possible in Italy?
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 | Articles | Comments Off on Is a Tea Party possible in Italy?
It has been suggested that Berlusconi’s beleaguered PDL party should be reformed to imitate the surging Tea Party movement in the United States. But is a ‘Tea Party’ possible in Italy?
Not exactly, says Dennis Redmont, when interviewed by the TV station, RSI’s La 1.
“Look – in America there are two big parties. In Italy there are about twenty-seven! It just wouldn’t work – plus, we mustn’t forget that Berlusconi is currently in power. He can’t hope to inspire a movement like the Tea Party, which was born in opposition.”
Click here to see the episode (in Italian), which was broadcast on 20 October
Marchionne, ungrateful? ‘It’s the Italian system that doesn’t work!’
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 | Articles | No Comments
Sergio Marchionne’s interview with Fazio in the programme “Che tempo che fa” stirred much controversy. Speaking to the independent newspaper Lettera 43, Dennis Redmont noted that the CEO’s comments risked being blown out of proportion.
Rather, his comments “should come as a wake-up call, and force people to face up to reality,” said Redmont. That reality is Italy’s lack of competitiveness, the difficulties of doing business in the country, the critical employment market and the lack of guarantees from the unions. These all dissuade foreign investment. “The Italian work system does not offer flexibility, it is not based on meritocracy, and it does not invest in inovation. That is why foreign investment stays away.”
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Escape from the city: Zeffirelli villa now attracting jet-set crowd as Italian hotel
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 | Articles | No Comments
Franco Zeffirelli, the movie and opera director, lived at “Villa Tre Ville” on the Amalfi Coast until 2007, hosting stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Leonard Bernstein. Now, an Italian entrepreneur Giovanni Russo has turned the four spectacular villas into a dream atmosphere, with an ultra-luxury hotel serving exquisite foods and views–if you can afford them !
Dennis Redmont wrote about “Villa Tre Ville” in the Hürriyet Daily News:
“Worry not, dearest Umbria: those threats are opportunities”
Thursday, September 30th, 2010 | Articles | No Comments
So writes Dennis Redmont in an article for the “Forum Marketing Territoriale” section of the Umbrian magazine, “Objettivo Impresa”.
Redmont, a veteran of Umbria, offers a tongue in cheek analysis of the Umbrian dilemma. This is a region in search of a new identity between financial meltdown and globalisation. By way of resolution, he invites Umbrians to participate in a healthy “regeneration” of the region.
Wanted : watchdog with loud bark
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 | Articles | No Comments
So writes Dennis Redmont in Aspenia ‘Media Evo‘ .
In America there is greater balance between information and privacy
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 | Articles | No Comments
Dennis Redmont put forth the American perspective in a discussion of the Italian law on telephone tapping in an interview in the daily newspaper Il Mattino, where he was quoted as saying:
“In the absence of the availability of court documents and leaks from the public prosecutor, investigative journalism in Italy will improve”
Mediaset Chairmen Defends Berlusconi against “neo colonialists”
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 | Articles | Comments Off on Mediaset Chairmen Defends Berlusconi against “neo colonialists”
Dennis Redmont has been quoted in the Financial Times:
“In Italy the media and newspapers were born as an instrument of the elite. That’s why
the debate about its control becomes very ideological.”
In Italy, plurality of information is not in danger
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 | Articles | Comments Off on In Italy, plurality of information is not in danger
Dennis Redmont was interviewed by “Il Mattino” when interviewed, September 5 2009
The death of the very last Kennedy
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 | Articles | Comments Off on The death of the very last Kennedy
Ted, the last of the Kennedys, has died. On 27 August 2009 the monthly “Liberal” dedicates a long article to the man. Dennis Redmont, interviewed by the monthly, states “All the legislation of the social area has his name written in the footnotes”.
‘The new Gianni Agnelli’
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | Articles | Comments Off on ‘The new Gianni Agnelli’
On the 27th of June 2009, La Stampa dedicated an article to the nomination of Sergio Marchionne to the Presidency of the Council for the United States and Italy. The growing amount of attention from American quarters garnered by the CEO of Fiat, in particular following his work with the Chrysler group, prompted Dennis Redmont to draw a comparison with that other great symbol of the Turin industrial group, Gianni Agnelli.
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