Right, Midnight Trains was a French company trying to create a European night train network that centred on France, specifically on Paris. I think they found out the hard way that for various reasons, as they detailed in their blog, France might not be the best country in which to organise such a company; it also might have been simply too ambitious of a project for the current market.
MrAlagos
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Io direi che cosa sia preferibile è anche soggettivo in base a diverse valutazioni, tecnicamente però è vero che l'intero sistema della CIE (quindi sia la tessera fisica che CIEid che è simile a SPID utilizzato senza la tessera fisica ma solo con nome utente, password e OTP) è gestito dal Ministero dell'Interno. Un "problema" di CIEid è che, tra i vari errori di comunicazione o ricezione da parte dei cittadini delle informazioni sulla CIE, al PIN e al PUK della CIE non è mai stata data la dovuta importanza, e moltissimi non lo hanno conservato; prima non era un problema perché pochissimi usavano la CIE per fare l'accesso di livello 3 (leggendo ogni volta la carta e inserendo il PIN), causa scomodità, ma ora che col PIN si può attivare i più semplici livelli 1 e 2 hanno dovuto creare una sezione apposita per il recupero e il reset del PIN. Sicuramente tutto questo non aiuta, unito ai protratti problemi dei comuni nel rilasciare le CIE ad un ritmo pari alla richiesta.
E' vero che SPID è una cosa diversa, cioè un'implementazione regolamentata dallo Stato ma fatta dai privati (anche se due sono a partecipazione pubblica parziale o totale), però c'è anche da dire che SPID proprio per questo è molto più trasparente rispetto alla gestione della CIE: sono pubbliche tutte le specifiche di SPID e tutti gli obblighi a cui i provider devono sottostare, nonché tutti gli aggiornamenti di AGID a riguardo, e sono obbligatori controlli sulla gestione e l'implementazione, con sanzioni per i trasgressori. Per la CIE non esiste niente di simile e la gestione è ancora oggi lacunosa, con livello 1 e 2 non supportati in alcuni siti e la loro validità limitata solo all'Italia anziché a tutte l'UE come SPID. Poi siccome SPID si può fare con più tipi di documenti è anche più universale (può farlo anche chi non è cittadino quindi) e, quando eravamo ancora più indietro con le emissioni della CIE, si faceva con altri documenti che sono anche gratis (la CIE invece si paga una ventina di euro in media).
Insomma, il governo Meloni a parole sembrava più volte puntare tutto sulla CIE per voler eliminare SPID, eppure SPID continua ancora ad ottenere il maggior utilizzo da parte dei cittadini e l'alternativa basata sulla CIE fatica a decollare.
Tens of thousands of people across Europe already don't own anything anymore because of recent calamities caused by climate change, yet people continue to bring in this stupid phrase trying to say that the solution will be worse than what we are already going through because of the many mistakes we made in managing resources, of which food production is one.
Survivor bias, we don't know about all the towers that did in fact lean to far and fell over the centuries.
Yes, bank accounts are still (only) bank accounts, which they have been for centuries with only cash (coins or banknotes) and paper-based accounting. Isn't this the point? If the digital euro is to be a digital analogue for cash, surely one would expect it to play the same role as cash, which isn't the form to store your entire wealth and belonging, but to serve as an easily tradeable and transportable form of money. The ECB doesn't want to provide and manage bank accounts, or rather no central bank does as it's simply not what banking has always been, it's always been a private endeavour.
I think the digital convenience of "anonymous" payments is real, and also that the ECB wanting to implement the digital euro as an online e-commerce compatible system from the beginning, directly challenging various different payment circuits with a single universal one, is also a significant development.
At the moment the idea that I have understood reading the various documents and interviews is that the digital euro wallets will not be a sort of bank account managed by the ECB, but they will be managed by the private banks (with similar guarantees for banking inclusion as existing bank accounts) and will be interoperable in order to use the common ECB-backed digital euro.
Therefore you still have the banks managing the infrastructure; also to convince the banks to adhere and not to completely destroy the existing electronic payment circuits there is a proposal to have a limit on the maximum transaction amount.
I would also like to add that another horrible treatment of young men and women involved in the Japanese idol market (I would call it a meat market even) is the immense social pressure from the talent companies, which has been ruled illegal and unconstitutional, to keep romantic relationships secret, to always appear "available" to the fans. Despite the rulings there are still idols who get caught up in "scandals" from time to time and are more or less forced to issue massive apologies or leave their agency.
Ecuador is in a very vulnerable and dangerous situation at the moment, with three high profile political homicides in just the past few weeks and an ever increasing influence of drug cartels that are escalating violence, control and homicides to huge levels.
Thanks, that checkbox was definitely not descriptive enough for me to notice.
The centre-left parties in Italy have been pushing for a minimum wage law since the early spring, when the biggest party (PD) finished its congress and a new direction was elected. The right wing majority has now voted to delay any kind of discussion on the law proposal for two months, and the right wing minister for external affairs has gone on record saying things like "minimum wage is a Soviet measure" and "we need a rich wage, not minimum wage".
I was very afraid that the themes would have been heavily skewed towards things like landmarks, famous people and events, which would plunge the subsequent discussions about the designs into a cesspit of nationalist in-fighting, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by the presence of a number of more sensible options. Not necessarily good, but sensible at least.
I like the "hands" theme quite a lot, but it might come out a little bad on the graphical side if not well thought out. Still, hands and their symbolism has been present for centuries in Europe to depict values and moral concepts, both religious and secular, I think it could be the best idea to represent abstract European values. I bet that people will just choose the "pretty" option though, so I expect birds, also because it can once again be tied to nationalism.
Germania ed Austria sono Paesi federali esattamente come avrebbe dovuto essere l'Italia. Tra l'altro, il federalismo libertario esiste, il centralismo napoleonico libertario (modello su cui i Savoia hanno fondato il Regno unitario) invece no.