Alessandro Di Maio
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Journalist | @ComeceEU Press Officer | Ex MENA reporter | #History & #Heritage at the University of Burgos | Sicilian-Australian-Belgian citizen 🏛🏺🇪🇺
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More centre, more far right, less liberals, less left, less greens.
#euelections
#UEparliament
#europe
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2022 is approaching. I wish to all of us what is written on this IV century AD mosaic panel from
#Halicarnassus
(modern Turkey): health, life, joy, peace, peace of mind, hope.
#HappyNewYear
#archeotravel
#archaeology
#archeologia
#history
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When I see one of these, I stop, read, pray, think. If
#Stolpersteine
give the same effect to other people, they are to be considered as one of the most successful tools to remember the victims of
#Shoah
and to commit not to make it happen again. #זוכר
#brussels
#Holocaust
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The golden finest
#Byzantine
mosaics narrating the
#Bible
in the magnificent XII century
#Arab
-
#Norman
Cathedral of
#Monreale
built during the Norman Kingdom of Sicily (1130-1194) incorporating the best practices of
#Arab
and
#Byzantine
#architecture
.
#History
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568 years ago from today, on 29 May 1453, the city of
#Constantinople
was captured by the Ottoman Empire guided by Sultan Mehemed II. Sicilian volunteers were there defending the Byzantine capital city. Here a French miniature of the siege, by Jean Le Tavernier (1455).
#History
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🏛🏺In the ancient city of
#Selinus
(
#Sicily
) archaeologists uncovered the largest agora in the ancient world: 33,000m2! They also found the remains of what seems to have been the sacred place of the first Greek colonies in 610BC.
#Selinunte
#archaeology
📰
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Protest against racism organized in front of Netanyahu's office in
#Jerusalem
by 1000 Israelis. Photo: Brian Reeves
http://t.co/VxJAKE9VH9
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Italy goes to the final and Italians in
#Brussels
celebrate.
#italy
#UefaEuro2020
#ITA
#ItaliaSpagna
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Photos from the later 60s, an
#Afganistan
that does not exists anymore.
#Asia
#Kabul
#photography
#Afghanistan
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I had to pleasure to host
@cardinal_jch
, President of
@ComeceEu
, on the
@radiorcf
broadcast '(Re)thinking Europe' and talk about topics such as the future EU-US relations following the election of
@JoeBiden
,
#migration
,
#populism
and
#FratelliTutti
.
🎙
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What is the
#EU
doing to face
#ClimateEmergency
? I discussed it at (Re)thinking Europe, on
@radiorcf
, with Cinzia Verzeletti, Coordinator of the European
#LaudatoSi
' Alliance (
#ELSIA
), who also provides good practice examples from the Catholic Church.
🎙
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A photo of my colleagues
@marek_COMECE
(left),
@MVennewald
(centre) and myself taken in front of the
#Pantheon
in October 2017 following the
@ComeceEu
-
#HolySee
#RethinkingEurope
dialogue organised at the
#Vatican
with the participation of
@Pontifex
. It was a special day!
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#GabrielGarciaMarquez
in an old photo. Thanks for everything you wrote.
http://t.co/5oQlwTs7nZ
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Intervista di Oriana Fallaci alla palestinese Rascida Abhedo, che nel 1970 fece esplodere due bombe a
#Gerusalemme
.
http://t.co/8LKaecAkIW
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People celebrating the elimination of
#France
from
#EURO2020
. I guess these are Belgians taking their revenge from last World Cup.
#FranceSwitzerland
#bruxelles
#brussels
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🔴 During the
@radiorcf
-
@ComeceEu
radio broadcast (Re)thinking Europe, I hosted Fr. Carlo Casalone SJ (
@PontAcadLife
/
@FondMartini
) and
@Vincenzobassi
(
@FAFCEInfo
) to discuss
#Covid19vaccines
and EU's policy towards
#elderly
.
#vaccines
🎙
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What is the current situation in
#Lebanon
and what could the
#EU
do to support the local population? Listen to my interview with Mgr. Youssef Soueif, Archbishop of the Maronites in Tripoli. Podcast available on
@radiorcf
/
@rcfbruxelles
.
🔊
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Profonda riflessione della collega
@VaniaDeLuca
(
@RaiTre
-
@UcsiSocial
) su
#disinformazione
,
#fakenews
e
#comunicazione
durante la pandemia, espressa nel contesto dell'incontro annuale
@MediaCcee
dei responsabili stampa delle conferenze episcopali d'Europa.
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Considering recent developments in
#Ukraine
/
#Poland
, I share the October issue of my
@rcfbruxelles
podcast 'Rethinking Europe'. It includes an interview on
#Russia
's brutal war in Ukraine, with
@marek_misak
,
@ComeceEu
Adviser on EU External Relations.
🎙
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Gun shoots in Toison d’Or,
#Bruxelles
, confirmed by police. 4 people injured, one seriously, one is a female tourist. Shooter(s) fled the scene. The nature of the event is still unknown. Day after day we witness how unsafe
#Brussels
is.
#security
#violence
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Oggi ho ricevuto il bollino del 2020 e mi sono reso conto che sono già passati 10 anni dall’iscrizione all’Ordine Nazionale dei Giornalisti.
#sembraieri
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📈🌍On the basis of previous theories, in 1938, English inventor
@GuyCallendar
discovered
#GlobalWarming
by correlating world
#temperatures
with atmospheric CO₂ concentrations. He suggested that increase in atmospheric
#CO2
was partly responsible.
#climate
#FridaysForFuture
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The October
@radiorcf
podcast of (Re)thinking Europe is now online! it includes an interview with
@ComeceEu
adviser
@EmilioDogliani
with regards to EU policies on
#youth
,
#education
, and
#culture
.
🎙
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Noto con dispiacere e frustrazione l'incapacità di alcuni di comprendere/ammettere che in una parte della sinistra e del mondo arabo serpeggia un forte
#antisemitismo
mascherato da antisionismo. E' un fenomeno in ascesa che si aggiunge a quello tradizionale nazi-fascista.
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My thoughts and prayers go to the Afghan families to whom the Western world had promised a free country. Instead they have been left behind to deal with the
#Talibans
.
#Afghanistan
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È venuto a mancare il giornalista Andrea Purgatori, che ho seguito sin dall’inizio del mio percorso giornalistico da ragazzino. Con la sua morte viene a mancare un contributo fondamentale al giornalismo di qualità in Italia. Condoglianze alla famiglia.
#andreapurgatori
#purgatori
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In 2017 I followed the
#Nile
river from
#Sudan
’s border to
#Cairo
. These photos show you what I did once I finally arrived to the
#gizapyramids
. What you cannot see is me at a local police station explaining what I was doing dressed like that.
#Egypt
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La
#plastica
?
#LassalaPeddiri
, liberiamo la
#Sicilia
! Campagna di sensibilizzazione per ridurre l'utilizzo delle plastiche in Sicilia.
#PlasticFreeSicily
#ambiente
#LaudatoSi
#ecologia
Info ➡
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📷 Here some photos (quelle che ho trovato) of
@journalismfest
2009 and 2010: a life experience that fueled my passion for journalism and allowed me to meet extraordinary people who are now true friends. Grazie
@_arianna
!
#ijfphotos
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🔴 “Light a candle on Easter Eve”:
European Bishops call faithful to give a sign of
#hope
. Photo:
@ComeceEu
president
@cardinal_jch
.
#solidarity
#united
#covid19pandemic
📰
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With
@MediaCcee
and
@ArasaDaniel
after the successful
#eu60dialogue
press conference with Card. Marx and S.E. Mgr Gallagher.
@HolySeePress
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Ristorante israeliano offre 50% di sconto ai clienti israeliani e palestinesi che condivideranno lo stesso tavolo.
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The four
#books
that will accompany me in the next three months.
#volersibene
#history
#sicily
#islam
#Byzantium
#politics
#academics
#libri
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Opens in
#Moscow
one of the biggest mosques in
#Europe
. At the inauguration Putin, Erdogan & Abu Mazen. Cost: 170M$.
http://t.co/Ld0IOlVcQt
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📰🎙Ieri la
@ComeceEu
ha lanciato , piattaforma online che riunisce le dirette video di 30 santuari europei. I dettagli dell'iniziativa li trovate in questo mio breve intervento a
@vaticannews_it
. Grazie
@gabriellaceras2
!
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Flying over
#Etna
, the highest active
#volcano
in Europe, the lighthouse of my homeland
#Sicily
.
#geography
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No wind this morning but nevertheless I left the island of
#Panarea
and I am heading to
#Stromboli
, one of the “lighthouse” for all ancient Mediterranean civilisations. It is here that Jules Verne’s “Voyage au centre de la Terre” finishes.
#home
#sicily
#trinacria
#sailing
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Mi permetto un commento personale. Poteva essere un
#Ramadan
migliore, per tutti.
#Israele
#Palestina
#Gaza
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#Live
eruption of
#volcano
#Stromboli
,
#Sicily
, in the heart of the
#Mediterranean
, recorded today at 06:00 AM while sailing on my sailing boat to my hometown
#Milazzo
.
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Salman Rushdie was stabbed today during a public event - there’s been a fatwa on him from the Ayatollah of Iran since 1989.
I hope this great writer recovers soon.
#salmanrushdie
#noterrorism
#freedomofspeech
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I Presidenti di
@ComeceEu
e
@ceceurope
scrivono una lettera a Putin e Zelenskyy chiedendo una tregua pasquale dalla mezzanotte del 17 aprile alla mezzanotte del 24 aprile.
@TgLa7
#Ucraina
#Ukraine
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"Il comunicatore cristiano usa le immagini per aprire delle finestre sul mistero di Dio e sulla vincenda umana", afferma
@monda66
, direttore di
@oss_romano
, durante l'incontro annuale
@MediaCcee
degli addetti stampa delle conferenze episcopali europee.
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Today is
#SaintLucy
's Day, celebrating Lucia of
#Syracuse
, IV century BC martyr under the Diocletianic Persecution. In
#Sicily
#arancini
are traditionally eaten to commemorate the arrival of grain supply ships on
#SantaLucia
's day in 1646, relieving a severe famine.
#history
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Ero contro il ponte
sono contro il ponte
sarò sempre contro il ponte.
#StrettoDiMessina
#noponte
#Sicilia
#Messina
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LZ 129 Hindenburg, the biggest flying machine ever build by humans. In this amazing
#photo
, its destruction in 1937.
http://t.co/9qpVZJ1ZJK
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Police helicopter flying over
#Brussels
' sky. It is three months I am living here and I never saw
#Bruxelles
so empty and silent.
#belgium
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Right now I am at
#Quattropani
, a tiny village in the island of
#Lipari
,
#Sicily
, looking at the island of
#Salina
and waiting to spot the
#NeowiseComet
. The
#weather
is amazing. My thoughts go to my friends in
#Brussels
who are under the rain as I was notified by my rain-app.
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While surfing on the
@librarycongress
website, I found this old photo of the motorcade for US President Eisenhower's visit to
#Kabul
in 1959 and decided to share it here on the day the US army left
#Afghanistan
after 20 years of war. Photographer: Thomas J. O'Halloran.
#history
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La mappa del Medz yeghern, “il grande crimine", il
#GenocidioArmeno
in
#Anatolia
.
#Turchia
#ArmenianGenocide
http://t.co/Yzc4PvFjTX
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I am extremely saddened by this news. Bernd was a good person, humble, warm and friendly. He was also a professional journalist and I will never forget his teachings. RIP, my friend.
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🔴
#JobOpportunity
in
#Brussels
.
The institution I am working for is looking for a Policy Advisor on Social & Economic Affairs. Full time job under an indefinite period contract.
@ComeceEu
Apply now:
Deadline: 24 April 2020
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I want to thank Mgr Selim Sfeir, Archbishop of the Maronites in Cyprus, and Mgr Bruno Varriano, Latin Patriarchal Vicar for Cyprus, for the warm welcome to the
@MediaCcee
meeting of Press Officers of European Episcopates, which this year meets on the beautiful island of
#Cyprus
.
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On the 17th anniversary of his death, I would like to share a photo of my friend Francesco (left) and myself (right) with the greatest cyclist of all times,
#MarcoPantani
. I was 17yo and a cyclist at the time - he was my idol. Rip
#Pirata
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In
#Jerusalem
is so cold that water iced within the water-pipes. My thought goes to those without a real house in
#Syria
/
#Iraq
/
#Gaza
.
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Studying some of the first tools produced and used by humans while flying on board of an airplane during sunset.
#Humanity
is beautiful.
#prehistory
#archaeology
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@ComeceEu
President, Card. Marx, & Secretary General, fr. Poquillon, talking before the arrival of
@Pontifex
at
#eu60dialogue
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#ISIS
' zone of control in
#Syria
and
#Iraq
. Good maps and info graphics from
@CNN
http://t.co/u4pNdagYPS
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E' la prima volta che Netanyahu/Ya'alon parlano di "
#terrorismo
ebraico". Iniziano a comprenderne la pericolosità x palestinesi e
#Israele
?
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I sassi lanciati al premier serbo Aleksandar
#Vucic
a
#Srebrenica
indicano quanto fragile sia la situazione nei balcani a 20 anni da Dayton.
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🏺Archaeologists discovered traces of opium in 1400 BC ceramic artifacts, the earliest known evidence of the drug in the ancient world. The vessels were uncovered in a Canaanite burial site and the opium could have been connected with an end-of-life ritual.
#Archaeology
#TelYehud
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Here we go! Happy to have contributed to (Re)Thinking Europe supporting
@ComeceEu
Secretariat. Amazing experience!
#eu60dialogue
#COMECE
Secretary General (fr. Poquillon), Personal Assistant to the SG (Ms Oger) and Press Officer (Mr Di Maio) at the end of
#eu60dialogue
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Non avete idea del piacere che provo nel vedere un altro boss mafioso circondato dai Carabinieri ed essere portato in carcere. Oggi e' un bel giorno per la Sicilia e per i Siciliani onesti.
#MatteoMessinaDenaro
#mafia
#palermo
#sicilia
#antimafia
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🔴Pope Francis announces 13 new Cardinals. Mgr.
@JCHollerich
, President of
@ComeceEu
, is among those prelates who will receive the red hat on October 5th, the vigil of the Amazon
@Synod_va
. Sincere congratulazioni, Monsignore!
@VaticanNews
➡
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For decades
#LetiziaBattaglia
has been documenting the
#mafia
and their vicitim in
#Sicily
. She was a "
#photographer
against mafia", not only a "photographer of mafia", but she also documented normal daily life in Sicily. She was one of the best among us, Sicilians. Ciao Letizia.
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Oggi a
#Gaza
è morto un collega, un giornalista serio e capace, un professionista, una persona allegra e simpatica. Rip Simone
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The Italian President of the Republic, Serio Mattarella, to propose tomorrow
#MarioDraghi
to be Prime Minister.
#Draghi
#CrisiDiGiverno
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🔴
#PopeFrancis
offered his Mass on Friday for all
#workers
as the
#Church
celebrates the feast of
#StJosephtheWorker
, and reflects on the importance of dignity and justice in the world of work. "May no one be without
#work
,
#dignity
, a
#justwage
".
#1May
📺
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Felice di partecipare alla manifestazione contro il
#PontesulloStretto
. Le motivazioni per il mio
#noponte
sono tante, dalla sostenibilità ambientale alla difesa delle vere priorità infrastrutturali in Sicilia/Calabria. In più, sono nato in un’isola e voglio che rimanga tale.
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Months of work and here we go, (Re)Thinking Europe just started.
@ComeceEu
@TimmermansEU
#eu60dialogue
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Oggi a
#Gerusalemme
ci sarà un matrimonio tra un musulmano e una ebrea. Fondamentalisti ebrei protesteranno a 200m dalla festa di nozze.
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After an
#internship
at
@ComeceEu
, Alexander Simoen became a teacher of religion in a school in
#Brussels
. I interviewed him on "Rethinking Europe", my monthly broadcast on
@radiorcf
. We discussed today's
#labourmarket
+ job opportunities for
#youth
.
🎙
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My friend
@Dana_Savariego
organises a relief fund to help
#families
who have been victims of the massacre perpetrated by
#Hamas
on October 7 in the Israeli communities between
#Israel
and the
#GazaStrip
. Donations will go to various registered charities.
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Un'amica a
#Gerusalemme
:"Ho visto il tramonto e ho pianto di paura temendo che con il buio a
#Gaza
tornassero a sparare razzi verso di noi".
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Vorrei dire molte cose su quanto accade a
#Gerusalemme
ogni notte, ma il livello di odio/violenza è inimmaginabile/impossibile da spiegare.
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🇪🇺 Poverty levels are rising in
#Europe
due to the
#COVID19pandemic
. Discover the EU response, the Church contribution and much more in my conversation with
@ComeceEu
adviser
@AlixWasseige
in the
@radiorcf
programme (Re)thinking Europe.
#work
#youth
🎙
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Spanish PM
@sanchezcastejon
on
#coronabonds
: “If the
#EU
exists is to face together crisis like the current one. We did it after
#WW2
and we have to do it now. This is the biggest crisis in our life time.
#Spain
will not give up on
#eurobonds
”.
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A religious Jewish man in
#Jerusalem
: "Peace will be achieved once Israelis & Palestinians, each1 on its own, will fight their extremists".
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📷 Honored to have received a group of priests in charge of coordinating the Salesian Vocational Educational & Training (VET) in
#Italy
. It was an occasion to exchange on the
@ComeceEu
mission of
#dialogue
with
#EU
institutions +Catholic contribution to
#EUintegration
.
#education
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