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Andrew Spannaus

Andrew Spannaus is a freelance journalist and analyst based in Italy. He is the elected Chairman of the Milan Foreign Press Association and the founder of Transatlantico.info, that provides news and analysis to institutions and businesses. His book “Original Sins: Globalization, Populism, and the Six Contradictions Facing the European Union” is due out in April 2019.

Back to normal? Debt and the future of the US economy

The COVID-19 pandemic has hurled the economy of the United States into the deepest downturn in decades, with unemployment approaching 1930s levels, and the drop in GDP even exceeding that of the Great Depression, according to the New York…

Fighting the recession: money, not debt

The coronavirus crisis is forcing Western policymakers to bend their principles: lawmakers in the United States have just approved 2.2 trillion dollars in emergency spending; the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,…

Who would Trump choose?

Over the past year, Donald Trump’s prospects for the 2020 presidential election have undoubtedly improved. In the summer of 2019, polls showed most of the top Democrats beating the president soundly, often by more than 10 points, with…

Hanging on: Joe Biden and the 2020 presidential challenge

Joe Biden's candidacy for the White House has been a long time coming. He first ran in the Democratic primaries in 1988, and then joined the race in 2008 as well, before being picked as the vice presidential candidate by Barack Obama. He…

Trump’s Middle East predicament

Donald Trump is at it again: he is trying to prove to his supporters that he is serious about pulling American troops out of the Middle East, as promised during the 2016 election campaign. And once again, the national security institutions…

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