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Research collaboration seen as vital, as Italians prepare to go to polls amid rise in euroscepticism.

As Italy's elections loom amid a hike in euroscepticism, the country's scientific community is raising its voice - saying Europe's a place where they can find opportunities. 

"Alone we wouldn't be as successful as we are with the 22 countries together" Ersilia Vaudo ScarpettaChief Diversity Officer, European Space Agency.

At ESTEC, the European Space Agency's research and technology centre in the Netherlands, scientists of 22 different nationalities work together to design and test satellites. And one in five is Italian.

“We can’t turn Italy into a refugee camp,” Salvini tells voters.

For years, Italy’s Northern League has derided residents of the country’s south as beggars, thieves and good-for-nothing rednecks. The party has long advocated secession of more affluent northern provinces, and leader Matteo Salvini once sang in a video, “Can you smell the stench? Even the dogs are fleeing. The Neapolitans are coming.”

 On Grand Street, the Banh Mi Saigon Vietnamese sandwich shop sits just past the Baz Bagel and Restaurant, which serves US$14 bagels with Nova and scallion cream cheese. Down the road stands the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

This is Little Italy in Manhattan. Or what's left of it.

San Francisco Italian American groups launched a referendum campaign Thursday to reclaim the former Columbus Day as “Italian American Heritage Day” following a Board of Supervisors decision last month to rename it as Indigenous Peoples Day.