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Today in Germany: A Roundup of the Latest News on Wednesday
- On Tuesday, students camped outside Italy's Chamber of Deputies in Rome to protest housing shortages and soaring rents, joining encampments at Sapienza University and Piazza Bologna.
- Italy's housing-related costs surged 119 percent between 2000 and 2025, more than doubling as national statistics office Istat attributed the spike to increased electricity and fuel prices.
- Virginia Libero, national secretary of the Democratic Party's youth wing, said, "We decided to pitch these tents to break the wall of silence surrounding the housing emergency," while denouncing the prime minister's "cardboard housing plan."
- Inspired by recent housing demonstrations in Spain, the protests reflect a broader wave of student-led activism targeting unaffordable urban living conditions across Europe.
- During the same 25-year period, the consumer price index across all goods and services averaged a 63 percent increase, providing economic context for why student demands for legislative action on rental stability have intensified.
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Today in Germany: A roundup of the latest news on Wednesday
The Greens and SPD suddenly stop coalition talks in Berlin, Nuremberg airport closed due to hijacking false alarm, soaring fuel prices send inflation over three percent mark and more news from around Germany on Wednesday, October 14th.
·Stockholm, Sweden
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The tents in front of Montecitorio for two days, the students of Udu and the United Students Network ask to unite the mobilizations: right to study, right to the house, dear life. "We do not want to be forced to choose between rent and study, between food and travels" explain the children. Among them there is the young dem Virginia Free, there is [...] L'articolo Students, the protest of the tents arrives in Montecitorio: "Assurdo ask us to choo…
·Rome, Italy
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