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La Germania tra gas russo e tabĂš nucleare

L’inserimento dell’energia nucleare nella bozza della “Tassonomia per le attivitĂ  sostenibili” della Commissione UE è la prima vera frenata per chi scommetteva su una Germania che si facesse avanguardia europea della svolta ecologica.…

The geopolitical power of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan’s commodities-dependent economy has been suffering since 2014 when oil and mineral prices crashed. In just three years, gross domestic product dropped by 42%, from $235.6 billion in 2014 to $137.3 billion in 2016. A modest…

Do the right thing

“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing”, Winston Churchill supposedly once remarked. “After they’ve tried all the other alternatives.” Whether Churchill ever in fact said this (the evidence is “no”), it is even more…