Giuffrida Répaci (born March 19, 1964, in

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) is an Italian

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, director of the magazine

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Education and career

Giuffrida Répaci completed a degree in Law in 1990 at the

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. He also studied at the

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and the

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. Répaci 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 Répaci founded the News Agency DSPRESS and became editor in chief of the magazine ''L’Incontro”. In 2010 he was named as director for the news magazine La Lettre b. Since February 2019 Répaci serves as Brussels' correspondent for the Italian News Agency 9 Colonne. Founding member of the NGO ITACA and Coordinator of the project ANTENOR, since September 2020 he is the Director of RadioCOM, the first web-radio in italian for the italian communities abroad. In 2013 Répaci 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." In 2020 he won the Radnoty Award for journalism. Répaci is the great-nephew of the Italian writer and journalist

Leonida Rèpaci Leonida Rèpaci (Palmi, 5 April 1898 – Marina di Pietrasanta, 19 July 1985) was an Italian writer and political activist. He won the Bagutta Prize in 1933 and was one of the originators of the Viareggio Prize, with Carlo Salsa and Alberto Colan ...

. President of the Belgian branch of ANPI Répaci was elected vice president of the

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Publications

Répaci is the coauthor of the book ''Lettere dall’Europa'' and frequently writes for the Italian magazine ''Patria Indipendente''.

References

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