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Since the very first day of his term, President Biden made it clear that fighting climate change represents a priority for the new administration. The announcement that the US will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement finally brings the…

The amount of CO2 emissions due to human activities has grown over the years, as can be seen in Figure 1, with an increasing impact from Asia in the last decade compared to Europe and the US, which lowered their emissions levels. …

The electric grid has been classified as one of the largest and most complex machines in the world and ranks first as the “Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century” by the National Academy of Engineering. Delicately balancing…

Dall'estate del 2013 si sono rimpallati accuse di ogni tipo. Recep Tayyp Erdogan ha dato del golpista e del despota al presidente egiziano Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, salito al potere facendo fuori gli islamisti della Fratellanza Musulmana. E…

The recent Israeli military operation against the Gaza Strip, branded by the Israeli Defense Forces as  “Guardians of the Wall”, halted under a ceasefire on May 21st. Israel was once again at war with the Palestinians over its contested…

The bombardment of the Gaza Strip by Israeli artillery has been described by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as required to “restore calm in the state of Israel”. This follows days of protests by Palestinians regarding an Israeli…

Il coronavirus sta modificando profondamente le nostre vite, ma non sappiamo ancora quanto. Siamo troppo immersi nella dinamica che stiamo attraversando e la nostra energia al momento è quasi totalmente presa dalla priorità della…

In Germania, le elezioni federali del settembre 2021 segneranno - dopo 16 anni - la fine del lungo cancellierato di Angela Merkel. Con esso finirà anche la gestione “merkeliana” dei principiali dossier di politica estera, generalmente…

A great deal of the European Union we know today, with its positive and negative sides, has been shaped by Chancellor Angela Merkel. Certainly, it has not all been sunshine and rainbows, for example during the German austerity crusade over…

La domanda sul prossimo governo tedesco non sembra essere se sarà verde, ma quanto. I sondaggi delle ultime settimane hanno prospettato un sorpasso: il partito dei Grünen viene stimato al 25/26%, mentre la Union CDU-CSU sarebbe scesa al…