“With the duties we are at the breaking point of the multilateral order”. This is the unprecedented alarm that launched Mario Draghi by intervening at the XVIII Cotec symposium in Coimbra, Portugal. The former president of the ECB and the Italian Council has criticized the growing use of unilateral actions to resolve commercial disputes and the progressive emptying of the ...
Germany will soon have “the most powerful conventional army in Europe”. This was promised by the new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, explaining that the goal will be achieved thanks to the hundreds of billions of euros of investments allocated by his government. “Strengthening the Bundeswehr is our maximum priority,” said the Christianodemocratic leader speaking to the Bundestag. Strengthening the German ...
Italy is among the countries contrary to further restrictions on purchasing non -European weapons with the money that will come on loan from the Commission. The twenty -seven are trying to overcome the stall on the SAFE tool (Security Action for Europe), which should provide 150 billion loans to Member States for defense expenses. At yesterday’s ECOFIN (Tuesday 13 May) ...
The European Union has approved new penalties against Vladimir Putin’s Russia. After months of negotiations, the ambassadors of the twenty -seven gave the green light to the 17th package, which will bring a new narrow on the “ghost fleet” that continues to sell the oil of Moscow, target new assets with double use, civil and military, inserts new personalities in ...
Israel is preparing for a new phase of the offensive in the Gaza strip. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that the Israeli army will enter “with all our strength” in the Palestinian territory in the next few days, declaring that there is no “no situation in which we will stop the war”. The premier also announced the launch of ...
Hundreds of millions of European public funds ended up in the pockets of Elon Musk. Over the years contracts with the European Commission have in fact obtained 339 million euros. It is learned from a response from the Commission to a parliamentary question sent by the German Deputy of the Greens Daniel Freund, according to which 180 million were paid ...
The United Kingdom risked becoming “an island of strangers”, and for this reason it must put an end to its “failed experiment of opening of the borders” to significantly reduce net immigration. The words of the leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, and instead to pronounce them was the Labor Stager Starmer premier, the same man who before the farewell ...
Turkey returns to the center of the diplomatic scene: American president Donald Trump has declared that he wanted to participate in any negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul and hopes for the presence of both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. “I don’t know where I will be on Thursday. I have so many meetings, but ...
Poland has decided to close the Russian Consulate of Krakow, accusing Moscow’s secret services of having used it for orchestrated a terrible fire in a shopping center in the capital, as an act of sabotage against the nation. The Warsaw government claims to be certain that behind the fire that last year destroyed the largest shopping center in Warsaw, Marywilska ...
Edi Rama triumphed in the elections in Albania and starts a historic consecutive fourth mandate as a premier of the country. His socialist party obtained 53 percent of the consensus, against 34.2 percent of the Democratic Party of the former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, with almost half of the scrutinized seats. Compared to the previous elections, Rama’s party would earn ...