When the government said it would begin relaxing its coronavirus lockdown, Italians reached for their dictionaries.
Europeans are starting to venture outside after weeks of pandemic-related confinement, but the rules look different in Madrid than they do in Berlin.
As for the issue of home regions, the show’s host raised the possibility that someone who lived, say, in eastern Sicily could drive hundreds of miles across the island to see relatives, but couldn’t visit a loved one just a few miles away in Calabria, a different region across the Strait of Messina. For Bianca Amodeo, 17, who lives in the region of Marche, that host’s hypothetical scenario is a painful reality. Her boyfriend of one-and-a-half years — which for many adolescents equates to an exceedingly stable tie of affection — lives not far from her but just across the border in theDeepening Bianca’s anguish: She has friends with boyfriends who live farther away but within the same region, and they are excitedly planning to see their sweethearts next week.
Some see more serious inequality in the government’s policy. Same-sex marriages are not legal in Italy, so civil rights advocates worry that same-sex couples and their children may be excluded from the “stable affection” category. When Italians finally determine whom they can visit, they’ll then have to puzzle out how to express affection when they arrive. The new measure requires all to wear masks and stay a safe distance apart when visiting.
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