we'll take naseem for amanpour!
merry christmas?
>Pope will have a terrible May!
Italy has reignited a dispute with France over Mont Blanc border rights after French authorities imposed measures that encroached on Italian territory.
Luigi Di Maio, the Italian foreign minister, who in the past has stoked tensions with France over other issues, said he had written a formal letter of complaint to the French government via the Italian embassy in Paris expressing his “strong disappointment” over the “interference” on the highest Alpine peak.
The dispute began in October last year after local authorities in Chamonix, Les Houches and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains set up a natural protection zone in an area of more than 3,000 hectares (7,413 acres) on Mont Blanc intended to prevent tourist overcrowding, including measures banning paragliding and poorly equipped hikers.
However, the targeted area affects a zone on the Gigante glacier, which lies under the famous Rifugio Torino and was defined by a treaty signed in 1860 as being part of Italy. Rifugio Torino, popular with skiers and hikers, is reachable from Courmayeur by the Skyway, a cable car completed in 2015 that links the Italian town with Pointe Helbronner, a 3,462-metre mountain on the frontier between the two countries.
Di Maio was pushed to intervene after a deputy with the small far-right party Brothers of Italy raised questions in parliament over concerns that the French were trying to monopolise the holiday destination.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/italy-reignites-mont-blanc-border-dispute-with-france
Friday 13
King [P] of PHrance.