Tourists are getting angry at being blocked from going in Louvre in France by protestors. These blockades are going to go on a long time, France knows civil action, and they know it works. Wages, Housing, Education is much more important then keeping tourists happy.
RADIO ARC 101:“NEWSSTANDS, ‘ENDANGERED SPECIES’ LIKE CAFÉS: MONEY LOST AND HOPES FROM STANFORD” by NANDO SILVESTRI SOURCE: https://radioarc.it/edicole-razze-in-estinzione-come-i-bar-soldi-persi-e-speranze-da-stanford/ Newsstands are another repository of humanity and knowledge, in many respects similar to cafés, at least as far as the unfortunate fate that has befallen many of them is concerned. The smell of printed paper, coloured card, variegated covers, surprise packets and cellophane was an olfactory molasses that once intoxicated young and old alike and represented, at the same time, a sought-after destination for daily walks and pauses. Stopping by the newsstand meant drawing upon knowledge, entertainment, culture, imagination and creativity. All prerogatives lost on account of the shapeless and amorphous surrogates disseminated by the web. This is the principal reason for the cumulative and recurring closure of a great many Italian newsstands: in economics, one speaks of a sector in demand collapse. But it is not merely a newsstand that closes; a piece of the local and national economy closes with it. From 35,000 newsstands in 2005 to about 20,000 in 2024: -43%. With them goes direct turnover of over €400 million per year, but the real hole is the indirect economy that is never calculated. Each average newsstand in a small town generated distribution worth €15,000 per year in margins for local distributors, couriers, and printers. Moreover, the customer who bought the newspaper would have a coffee, buy a bus ticket, place a bet. Download the Medium App One must consider that without a newsstand, the village cinema loses its only physical promotional outlet, not to mention the losses in terms of advertising. When it closes, it is not only the newsagent who loses. The café loses, the driver loses, the printer loses. In Irpinia, over the last five years, Avellino has lost six newsstands, Ariano Irpino three, Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi two. The total loss in Irpinia amounts to about 22% of outlets. All this means that many of the closures mentioned above have deprived Irpinian cafés of several dozen customers, harming workers, distributors and suppliers. These are jobs that do not make the news, but they exist. Another hard blow inflicted upon the local and national economy in the name of a false progress that almost always favours the business of fixers and the usual suspects. However, what is happening in Puglia, a few kilometres from Irpinia, opens up scenarios of renewal based precisely upon the reconversion of disused newsstands. These are prospects so unique and innovative as to have aroused interest worldwide, especially at Stanford University. This is news of enormous significance that few news programmes have disseminated, in the name of a perennial pre-emption by technologies contemptuous of common sense, tradition and art. In San Severo, 40 km from Upper Irpinia, a newsstand abandoned for six years in Via Matteo Tondi became, on 27 March 2026, the Teatro-Edicola Foyer’97: six chairs, four square metres, an idea by Francesco Gavino. The well-received 10- to 15-minute shows have piqued the curiosity of Stanford University. Its academic journal, the Stanford Social Innovation Review [SSIR], has chosen the Teatro Edicola in San Severo as an international case study with the reportage “The Six-Seat Revolution”. Why is Stanford watching us? Because it has realised that those four square metres can once again generate indirect economic activity. Indeed, 60 spectators in an afternoon can become 60 coffees at the neighbouring café. With a symbolic ticket price of €5, we are talking about a cultural micro-economy. Not to mention the indirect income from tourists and journalists who arrive and frequent B&Bs and restaurants. It is the model Irpinia needs: not to leave the void, but to reconvert it virtuously. Every closed newsstand can become an information point, a micro-cinema, a service hub. Otherwise we shall continue to count only the lowered shutters, without counting the money that no longer circulates.
The post urged the EU to follow Finland’s example, saying Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo had called for a halt to tourist visas for Russians. It said Orpo had questioned why Russians were allowed to enter Europe as tourists and travel freely if Russia was suspected of planning acts of sabotage there. https://t.co/WwDDRnb7OA #Finland #EU #Russia #FI #RU
Jake and Callum Robinson and their friend Carter Rhoad were on a surf trip when they were killed in an apparent botched robbery. #JusticeForSurfers #MexicoCrime #TouristSafety
The BBC spoke to Americans and international tourists in Washington DC about their views on the death penalty following the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee. #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #UnitedStates
The author called on the European Union to urgently consider tightening border controls for people travelling from Russia amid a possible plague outbreak. They wrote that the war had not been enough to stop Russian tourists from travelling freely around Europe, before the post ended mid-sentence. #Plague #Russia #PublicHealth #RU #EU
The deadly fighting has also spread to neighbouring regions, stranding tourists in Lalibela. #EthiopiaConflict #TigrayCrisis #HumanitarianEmergency
The deadly fighting has also spread to neighbouring regions, stranding tourists in Lalibela. #EthiopiaConflict #Tigray #HumanitarianCrisis
Local media report the property included a holiday rental, with US tourists and a UK national among the missing. #AthensExplosion #PlakaDistrict #TouristTragedy
The Hungarian government tried to shut down one of the most important museums in Hungary, the House of Terror Museum. It's exhibition is a valuable lesson to Hungarians and tourists alike, about the crimes and the evil of the Hungarian nazi and communist regimes. Ahead of the #HouseOfTerror #Hungary #MuseumMemory #HU
The shoplifting and petty stealing at the train station, buses, supermarkets, streets ,public places are giving concern to most tourists who lost their handbags, mobile phones ,necklaces, travelling documents, money, passports, credit card, while on tour visit around Europe 🇪🇺. It is becoming more dangerous!
The shoplifting and petty stealing at the train station, buses, supermarkets, streets ,public places are giving concern to most tourists who lost their handbags, mobile phones ,necklaces, travelling documents, money, passports, credit card, while on tour visit around Europe 🇪🇺. It is becoming more dangerous!
Drones over Lithuania, flares fired at Danish aircraft, the Polish border strike. These attacks are a direct result of Europe’s weak response to Leipzig & all other provocations. It’s past time. The EU must ban Russian tourists. NATO must help defend western Ukrainian airspace. #NATO #EU #Ukraine #LT #DK #PL #UA #RU
Simple policy: As long as there is Russian terror in Europe, we should allow zero Russian tourists in Europe. #NoRussianTourists #StopRussianTerror #EuropeUnited #RU #EU
Outside The US Yankee is used to refer to all Americans. “Yankee go home!” started as a response to US imperialism and just general chauvinistic and disrespectful attitudes of American tourists overseas and even ambassadors. At home there's a lot of work to do !🤠 #belgianpolitics #yankeegohome #respect https://vrtnws.be/p.M9XkD7Q6p
I call on Austrian and Israeli authorities to investigate urgently whether hostile foreign actors were involved in the disappearance of two Israeli tourists in Vienna. Given Russia’s documented use of hybrid operations across Europe, possible Russian involvement must be examined #Vienna #IsraeliTourists #HybridWarfare #AT #IL #RU
Why does Sweden allow Russian "tourists" into the country? Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland don't. What do they know, you don't? #Sweden #RussianTourists #SecurityConcerns #SE #FI #EE #LV #LT #PL
over the last year #IDFSoldiers have been touring #Italy disguised as tourists and protected by the police. Those among them who have committed #WarCrimes can sleep peacefully: since 1999 #Italy has NOT had a criminal code to implement the #RomeStatute: https://t.co/IEban1h8KE #IDFSoldiers #Italy #WarCrimes #IT
