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Filippo Giuffrida Répaci

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Giuffrida Répaci was born in Turin, Italy. He started his career as journalist in 1982, as speaker at the radio station Radio Riviera Tre. In 1989 he moved to Radio One and became a reporter for the News Agency Hi News. In 1994 Giuffrida Répaci moved to Brussels to become correspondent of the Agency L’Altra News.

In 2003 he founded the News Agency DSPRESS and became Editor in chief of the magazine L’Incontro”. In 2010 he was called as director for the news magazine La Lettre b.

In 2013 he won the Michel Vanderborght Award for journalism with the following motivation: "Filippo Giuffrida joins in his person both sides of our tasks – the principal anti-fascism and the good journalism. First he lives for long time in Brussels and reports about the problems and developments of the EU. In his view are the real problems of the people, the social segregation and the democratic development. Especially the actual economic crisis and the social consequences he brings on the floor. Second he is an activist of the Italian antifascist organization ANPI as an international representative at the European Parliament and for all Italian in Belgium."

He is one of the authors of the book Lettere dall’Europa and frequently writes for the Italian Magazine Patria Indipendente

Filippo Giuffrida is the great-nephew of the Italian writer and journalist Leonida Rèpaci. President of the Belgian branch of ANPI he was elected Vice President of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – Association of Anti-Fascists.

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Filippo Giuffrida Répaci Wikipedia