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A decade of Macron’s foreign policy

In May 2017, Emmanuel Macron entered the Élysée Palace as, by some distance, the most explicitly doctrinaire French president in a long time. His ambition was not purely to govern France but to reposition it as a puissance d'équilibre, the…

Right wing rivalry in Dutch politics

During a recent parliamentary debate on the normalization of violence in politics and society, Lidewij de Vos, leader of the far-right party Forum for Democracy (FvD), argued that the Dutch must continue to form the majority in their own…

Sulle guerre

L’attualità dimostra in modo drammatico che le guerre hanno spesso un’influenza globale: anche quando non ci coinvolgono direttamente e quando – è il caso della terza guerra del Golfo, perlomeno per tutta la fase iniziale – facciamo…