Sunday, 22 December , 2024

Italy

More NGOs follow MSF in suspending Mediterranean migrant rescues

ROME (Reuters) - Two more aid groups have suspended migrant rescues in the Mediterranean, joining Doctors Without Borders, because they felt threatened by the...

Rescuing Veneto Banks Would Have Cost Less With Indirect Nationalization

by Marcello Minenna Published in www.socialeurope.eu The Italian government has launched a package of extraordinary measures to handle the crisis at Veneto Banca (VB) and Banca...

Macron: a French (potential) Thatcher

by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos Macron “scooped the pool and decamped” in the second round of the French presidential elections, scoring an easy victory over Marine Le...

The Greek Debacle and the political credibility of the European Left

By Klaus Dräger There are two things that remained quite constant since the onset of the ‘euro-zone crisis’ and the ‘Greek tragedy’ starting in 2010....

The European Left and the Greek Tragedy

by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*)   The day Greek workers and employees went on general strike, protesting against a new barrage of so-called “reforms” imposed by the...

The Provocation Just Before the Election

22 April 2017 The first round of the elections in France is being held against the backdrop of an attempt by the state and the...

CIA’s annual covert “aid” to Italy

CIA Covert Aid to Italy Averaged $5 Million Annually from Late 1940s to Early 1960s, Study Finds Previously Unpublished Draft Defense Department History Explores U.S....

Brexit: Divorce by mutual consent or fight?

by Giullietto Chieza According to Tomas Prouza - state secretary for EU Affairs in Prague - “There is a real danger that British politics, with...

Operation Condor – Kissinger’s Legacy

Posted January 17, 2017 National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 577 Edited by Carlos Osorio For further information contact Carlos Osorio: cosorio@gwu.edu   A tribunal in Rome, Italy, today...

A Voice From the Left

If somebody asked me, in 2016, why I still consider myself to be on the Left, then I would undoubtedly start from my thoughts about the historical shift that occurred with the atomic bombings of two Japanese cities on 6th and 9th August 1945. Yet I would be the first to admit that the question of these weapons of mass destruction (and other such weapons) transcends the traditional spectrum of political ideologies, including those of the Left and of the Right.