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Dalla prima grande manifestazione indipendentista dell’11 settembre del 2012, che si apriva con lo striscione “Catalogna, nuovo stato d’Europa”, ben poco sembra essere cambiato nella ricca regione nord-orientale della Spagna (19% del pil,…

Syriza, the party of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, has been remarkably flexible when it comes to putting ideas into practice since taking power after the September 2015 election. It is therefore unsurprising  that the same goes for…

This thought has been brewing in the corridors of power at Raisina Hill these days. Diplomats whisper about it, while at least one prominent not-for-profit India Foundation, which counts two sitting cabinet ministers as mentors, has started…

La cronaca offre spunti quasi quotidiani su una vicenda che sembra ormai senza soluzione: la persecuzione della minoranza musulmana rohingya in Myanmar da parte di gruppi di “attivisti” buddisti. Attivisti che contano molto spesso nelle…

Although General Prayuth Chan-ocha’s meeting with President Trump, which was supposed to take place in late July, has been postponed, Thailand’s relations with the United States still appear warmer now than at any time since the country’s…

The 2016 U.S. presidential elections were upended by Donald Trump’s ability to communicate directly with a large swath of the population that doesn’t feel represented by the political institutions and the mainstream media. While…

The scheduled thirty-minute chat on the G-20 meeting’s sidelines between Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and their foreign ministers immediately overshadowed the rest of summit. And as details have emerged, the bilateral meeting appears to be…

La Germania è “troppo grande per l’Europa e troppo piccola per il mondo”. Queste parole, attribuite a Henry Kissinger, sembrano sancire l’eterno destino tedesco: una naturale tendenza a straripare su scala continentale e una geografica e…

"Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws", Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the patriarch of the powerful French-British banking dynasty allegedly once said. In the Rothschild era those who controlled the…

Non è stato il trionfo annunciato, anzi: è piuttosto ambigua la situazione di Emmanuel Macron. Il nuovo Presidente godrà di una buona maggioranza di deputati in parlamento: i francesi hanno consentito al nuovo inquilino dell’Eliseo di avere…