politics

SYRIZA, the Greek Coalition of the Radical Left, was elected five months ago on the promise of “hope”. Its “Thessaloniki Program” started with the goal of writing off “the greater part of the Greek debt’s nominal value”, together with a…

John Maynard Keynes once said, “…the oppression of the taxpayer for the enrichment of the rentier is the chief lasting result ”. On January 7th the Eurozone tipped into deflation when it was announced by the European Central Bank that…

Thucydides once said, “It is not a matter of predicting the future but preparing for it”. After more than a decade of operations and now some six years into hard austerity Europe’s armed forces are not only unprepared, they are unfit for…

In October, little noticed by journalists in India and abroad, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of India’s ruling political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), declared that it was celebrating the 1,000th…

A margine dell’ultimo Consiglio Europeo del 23-24 ottobre, il Premier britannico David Cameron ha usato toni particolarmente accesi per respingere la richiesta della Commissione di versare altri due miliardi di euro a favore del budget …