Luca Rastello
Luca Rastello (b. 1961) is an Italian writer and journalist. Specialised in questions linked to immigration and the mafia, he contributes to La Repubblica and is a director of the reviews Osservatorio dei Balcani and Narcomafie.
Updated: 6 June 2012
The planned high-speed train that was supposed to link Lisbon to Kiev will not be pulling away from the platform anytime soon. The crisis and the many obstacles on a route that promised to take travelers from the Atlantic to the Russian steppe mean that the European rail corridor has almost ground to halt.