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Italia-Europa: fatti e illusioni

 Il dibattito italiano sull’Europa non cambia di una virgola. Nel mezzo di una crisi che assomiglia molto a una guerra e che produrrà, dopo l’emergenza sanitaria, anche un’emergenza sociale ed economica, le due parti in conflitto -…

Fighting the recession: money, not debt

The coronavirus crisis is forcing Western policymakers to bend their principles: lawmakers in the United States have just approved 2.2 trillion dollars in emergency spending; the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,…

A bazooka of words

“We are at war,” President Emmanuel Macron stressed six times as France slipped into lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus. “We are at war (…), fighting an invisible enemy,” US President Donald Trump echoed from the other shore of…