EU & Europe

As the UK prepares to go to the polls, candidates are all fired up in their campaigns leading up to the May 7th parliamentary elections. In the course of the electoral campaign, there are different TV debates on the agenda. The April 16th…

After the surprising success of UKIP in the 2014 European elections it has become a cliché to argue that the party led by Nigel Farage has changed the British political landscape. It is true, but it has to be interpreted as the latest phase…

SYRIZA, the Greek Coalition of the Radical Left, was elected five months ago on the promise of “hope”. Its “Thessaloniki Program” started with the goal of writing off “the greater part of the Greek debt’s nominal value”, together with a…

John Maynard Keynes once said, “…the oppression of the taxpayer for the enrichment of the rentier is the chief lasting result ”. On January 7th the Eurozone tipped into deflation when it was announced by the European Central Bank that…

Il contesto economico globale continua ad essere caratterizzato dal trasferimento di redditi e tecnologia dai paesi avanzati a quelli emergenti. A questo sviluppo, ormai di valenza epocale, si affiancano le problematiche conseguenti alla…