Ireland 🇮🇪 Italy 🇮🇹are the places I can get citizenship to, but no jobs planned or connections. Netherlands 🇳🇱 Is where I could get a work visa pretty soon and know some family. Which do you choose and why?

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Bologna and Reggio Emilia has been consistently leftist (as leftist as you can be with Gladio going around) since the fash went down. Turin has a cool DIY scene, so does Rome. Avoid Milan like the plague, as well as the more northern, historically reactionary bits of the country.

      • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Veneto

        Laughs in Friuli and Trentino-Alto Adige. Come for the spritz, leave because of the fash.

        Wrt to leftism in ER, my experience is that electoral politics are a fuck, as in the rest of the country, but the largest and strongest unions and farmer co-ops have a good presence in the region so I'd say that the average Emilian* or Romagnol* is more to the left of the rest of the country.

        • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Trentino-Alto Adige

          Weirdly/Interestingly enough, if you include Rizzo's Nazbols, it was actually the best region in all of Italy for the self-proclaimed radical left in the last election. 7% in Trento, of all places (4,75% for Rizzo's bozos and 2,29% for the Unione Popolare).

          Then again, red-brown-alliances are not the standard we should be looking up to.

          As for Friuli, I view them as an extension of Veneto. I mean, the full official name literally has Venezia in its name.

          the largest and strongest unions and farmer co-ops have a good presence in the region

          That's a neat thing indeed. I recently found out about a network of cooperative flower shops in RN lmao. Shame I didn't take much interest in the cooperatives when I lived there, as I was very much just a clueless baby leftist back then.