How von der Leyen used the Russia-Ukraine war to massively expand the Commission's powers — and supranationalise the EU's security policy
By Thomas Fazi
Sep 17,...
By Thomas Fazi*
Mau 25, 2024
Just five years ago, the 70th anniversary of the birth of the post-war German democratic state was accompanied by euphoric...
Italian voters know she won't change anything
By Thomas Fazi
Sep 27, 2022
The international response to Giorgia Meloni’s (amply predicted) victory in Sunday’s Italian elections can...
Europe has lost the energy war, writes Thomas Fazi in his brilliant analysis of the European economic situation we reproduce below.
He attributes this defeat...
by Thomas Fazi
31March 2021
Paschal Donohoe, the Irish finance minister and president of the Eurogroup, has written a preposterous article in the Financial Times...
European states are being offered a pittance in exchange for giving up even more power to the EU
By Thomas Fazi
25th February 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic...
Why would the bodily incarnation of neoliberalism represent a solution to Italy’s woes?
February 19, 2021
Photo Illustration: 731; Tim Wegner/laif/Redux
Today’s vote of confidence in the...
Philipp Heimberger, Nikolaus Kowall – Draghi Government: Seven ‘Surprising’ Facts about Italy
February 18, 2021
Italy – heavily in debt and still unwilling to reform! Over...