The chanceries of allied countries in Europe must have uncorked quite a few bottles of champagne over the sudden disappearance of John Bolton, the third national security adviser of a Trump administration in constant turmoil. Bolton was not a friend of the European Union that he regarded as an impediment to strong foreign policies of…
Germany is having an afterthought about its former colony where Otto von Bismarck ruled for 30 years massacring the indigenous Herero population. German tourists are now coming in droves to Namibia, a huge but sparsely populated nation on Africa’s southwest coast. Germany took control of the territory in the late 1880s after the British renounced…
What has happened in Italy to the surprise, better still, the incredulity of Italians and foreign observers alike, is that sanity finally prevailed in a nation that had been snookered by a politician who had broken long-standing constitutional rules by pushing anti-immigrant actions and far right populist policies. At the end of the day, Matteo…
Il massacro di Dayton, nell’Ohio, l’ultimo in ordine di tempo, e’ stato il 251esimo nel 2019, secondo la classificazione del Gun Violence Archive. In pratica, ci sono stati piu’ stragi di massa che giorni trascorsi in questo anno. E’ inevitabile quindi che il dibattito sulle cause delle stragi confluisca nella contesa elettorale del 2020. Ed…
The opposition to President Donald Trump has an effective arrow in its quiver but does not know how to use it. It is the power to ignore him. There are signs that some are beginning to do it, starting with the Europeans who are imposing humongous taxes on American corporations, with France in particular levying…
Se i democratici perderanno le elezioni presidenziali del prossimo anno, non ci sara’ bisogno di grandi analisi per individuare la causa. La risposta sara’ semplice: “the squad”, ossia la quaterna di giovani deputate i cui nomi sono sulla bocca di tutti: Ilham Omar, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortes, Rashida Tlaib e Ayanna Presley. La strategia di Donald Trump…
L’assurda vicenda dell’ambasciatore britannico a Washington, costretto a dimettersi a seguito della pubblicazione dei suoi telegrammi diplomatici, ha portato alla luce un fatto che dovrebbe far riflettere l’elettorato americano, l’unanimita’ con cui il mondo diplomatico internazionale condivide il giudizio di quell’ambasciatore, vale a dire la sua descrizione dell’amministrazione Trump come “inetta”, “insicura”, “diplomaticamente goffa”, “soffocata…
For the first time in European history, women occupy two of the most important posts in the governance of Europe. The German Ursula Von der Leyen is the new head of the European Commission and the French Christine Lagarde will succeed the now legendary Mario Draghi at the helm of the Central European Bank. The…
Il momento piu’ illuminante del dibattito tra gli aspirantialla candidatura presidenziale democratica e’ stato quello in cui solo due di essi hanno alzato il braccio in risposta alladomanda “Chi e’ favorevole all’eliminazione deiprogrammi privati di assicurazione medica a favore di un piano gestito dal governo federale?” I due erano la senatrice Elizabeth Warren ed il…
Con l’avvicinarsi delle elezioni del novembre 2020, cresce un sospetto, che il vecchio detto di James Carville “It’s the economy, stupid” finira’ col rivestire maggior rilevanza che non il fantomatico impeachment del presidente in carica. Lo stato dell’economia e’ molto spesso il fattore che piu’ pesa nelle elezioni presidenziali americane. Ergo, se l’economia dovesse mantenersi…
The parliamentary elections in Europe have a surprise winner but it will take time for many, particularly in the U.S. Congress, to digest its impact. The new force in the European Union is that of the Greens, protagonists of an electoral triumph in Germany where they won more than 20 percent of the vote. This…
The European elections of May 26 are keeping many European citizens breathless but at the same time reality tells us that the voting will be a waste of breath. The epochal charge of the sovereign nationalistic forces that threaten Europe from its eastern gate will not disrupt the orderly democratic course of united Europe, no…
