At the EGU, Stefano Tinti from the University of Bologna, Italy, said the EU collectively had put only about 8m euros into tsunami research over the last five years.

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The ceremony, at Europe's oldest university in Bologna, northern Italy, was meant to encourage those who fight to preserve or enhance traditional tastes and traditions.

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The new routes are to airports at Bologna and Cagliari in Italy, Beziers in France, Santander in northern Spain, Corfu in Greece and Katowice, Rzeszow and Warsaw in Poland.

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Trenitalia, Italy's state railway operator, suspended train service from Bologna, and a friendly soccer match between Italy and Luxembourg in Parma was canceled.

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Cossiga told the newspaper that the August 1980 bombings at the Bologna train station - which Italy blamed on Italian fascists -- was actually the work of George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

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According to the European Environment Agency, 200 tsunamis were recorded over the last 500 years around the Mediterranean and the University of Bologna indicated recently that on average in the last four centuries Italy has been hit by 15 tsunamis every 100 years.

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One of the newer start-ups in the city, its Jordanian owners are proud of their former life in Italy and coffee-making credentials (they get their roasted beans from outside Bologna).

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Meanwhile in Italy's Serie A, Juventus were held to a 1-1 draw at Bologna.

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