
Jan
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Jeu du mercredi: Trouve la gamme vendue par ton boulanger de quartier :



You can now retire in Italy and pay a 7% flat tax on foreign income in qualifying southern towns with up to 30,000 inhabitants, not just 20,000. This has been valid since April 2026. Much bigger change than it sounds. Actually massive. The new threshold opens 70+ additional towns that were previously excluded. Not tiny villages with no services, but proper small cities with hospitals, restaurants, train stations, beaches, and real year-round life. I made a deep dive. Puglia is the obvious winner. Ostuni alone makes the reform worth attention. Add places like Conversano, Galatina, Manduria, Mesagne, and Putignano, and suddenly the regime becomes much more attractive for people who want beauty without giving up practicality. But personally, I would look very seriously at Abruzzo. Roseto degli Abruzzi. Giulianova. Sulmona. These are not "buy a €1 house and disappear" places. These are towns where I could genuinely imagine my retired parents living well: sea, mountains, good food, human scale, and lower cost of life than the obvious Italian hotspots. Sardinia also becomes more interesting. Cagliari is already one of Italy's most underrated cities, and now nearby towns like Sestu, Assemini, Capoterra, and Selargius give retirees a way to live close to the city while still qualifying for the regime. Worth paying attention to. We'll be discussing these and more next week in our webinar with our migration lawyer and will be open to your questions.


36 adjoints nommés par @egregoire ce jour en Conseil de Paris. Et aucun adjoint en charge du patrimoine ? Personne pour remplacer @karen_taieb ? Dites-moi que je rêve ou que quelque chose m’a échappé.





JUST IN: Petri dish of human brain cells grown on a microchip has learned to play DOOM.





Je peine à croire à une victoire de Bardella. Je pense qu’il n’a pas les épaules pour tenir une présidentielle, et qu’il manque de tempérament et d’instinct plus encore que d’idées : c’est pour cette raison même que Marine l’a fait monter. Et s’il se carapace, son état de grâce médiatique (qui est une bulle artificielle à une telle distance des présidentielles) s’effondrera, surtout si un adversaire sérieux vient à émerger. Nous sommes dans un cycle politique de communicants, où « ceux qui montent » (surtout à droite) ne sont ni chefs ni doctrinaux : je ne vois pas comment ça peut durer étant donnée la situation nationale. Et même en cas de victoire, comment redresser un pays avec des gens aussi communicants et aussi peu chefs ? Vivement que la droite parisiano centrée se réveille et sorte de son espèce d’euphorie adolescente : contrairement à ce qu’elle s’imagine, Mélenchon n’est pas mort, le système/macronisme non plus. Et accessoirement le pays souffre…

For the next 30 days I’ll run 5km as soon as I wake up. 1. Because I spend the rest of the day sitting 2. Because I want to test my discipline 3. Because stepping out of comfort zone is how I learn stuff

It depends a lot on the category and the trust they have in that brand from overseas. e.g. European food and healthcare are assumed to be higher quality than Chinese products. They still love German cars (tarriffs making them jhard to love but the respect is there). Going premium and building the brand is nearly always the answer.










