Publication: Corriere della Sera

15.03.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

This could prove to be the biggest test of the Chinese government’s ruthlessness since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. The riots this week by Buddhist...

08.03.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Throughout your lifetime, whether you are 25, 40 or (like me) 50 years old, the price of food has been falling, bit by bit, year by year. The only exception to...

27.02.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Music alone will not transform the closed and brutal Asian state of North Korea, nor will it transform the bitter relationship between the North Koreans and...

19.02.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

The declaration of independence by Kosovo at the weekend, and the resulting split inside the European Union over whether to give official recognition to the...

17.02.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

It is a good time to be an African. It may not seem all that good, if you look at the violence in Kenya, or the continued slaughter in the Darfur region of...

04.02.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

For an outsider to comment on Italy’s political crisis feels rather like a neighbour intruding on a family tragedy: tempting, perhaps even desirable, but...

28.01.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

For central bankers these days, it is a matter of pride to be able to stand up and ignore pressure from two sorts of directions: pressure from politicians, who...

15.01.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Lakes full of ink have been spilled about the unveiling in India on January 10th by Tata Motors of its new, super-cheap car. People have pondered whether the...

05.01.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

It is a little comical to make judgments about who will be the next president of the United States on the basis of voting by just a few hundred thousand...

02.01.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

With voting due to begin in the Iowa caucus on January 3rd, followed swiftly by the New Hampshire primary five days later, events in America’s presidential...

18.12.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

When the board of Alitalia meets today to consider the competing acquisition proposals from Air France-KLM and Air One, the air will be filled with distracting...

26.11.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

The most famous, if rather callous, saying about investment is attributed to Baron Nathan Rothschild, one of the founders of the great banking dynasty. He...

16.11.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

The resolution promoted by Italy and passed by the human rights committee of the United Nations General Assembly, calling for the abolition of the death...

12.11.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

The continued climb of the oil price towards $100 a barrel is grabbing attention both because of its symbolic importance and because of fears that it will...

04.11.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

General Pervez Musharraf’s coup in Pakistan is the strangest of coups: it is in effect a coup against himself. When he seized power in 1999 from the...

16.10.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

When the world’s biggest country, measured by population, which could within 20 years be the world’s biggest economy, holds a meeting of its ruling...

05.10.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a fine choice as the new head of the International Monetary Fund, and the job he will take up formally on November 1st is a...

27.09.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

What happens now to the brave protestors in Burma, whether monks or ordinary citizens, is chiefly important for the Burmese themselves and for the fate of...

08.09.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white, said Deng Xiaoping, as long as it catches mice. The great Chinese leader was trying to persuade his fellow...

21.08.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

The one-year countdown has begun in Tiananmen Square, for the Olympic Games that will open in Beijing at 8.08pm on the 8th day of the 8th month of 2008. That...

17.08.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

When financial markets rise by three or four percent each day, no one pays much attention. But when they fall each day by that amount, it becomes front-page...

02.08.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

If I had been one of the family shareholders in Dow Jones, owner of the Wall Street Journal, I would probably have agreed to sell my shares to Rupert Murdoch....

25.07.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Foreigners don’t vote, and so they are a convenient target for politicians in all countries. That is why Europe’s trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson,...

14.07.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera

For many years, the British Broadcasting Corporation has had the nickname in England of “Auntie”. It is partly affectionate, since everyone in a family...