Publication: La Stampa

31.05.18 Publication: La Stampa

Let’s face it: the typical view in the outside world about Italian political crises is that they are dramatic but not serious. That may be why so little...

26.05.18 Publication: La Stampa

All politicians need luck, especially in their early months in office. So the lucky star has certainly shone on Japan’s new prime minister,...

13.05.18 Publication: La Stampa

What do Donald Trump, Five Star, the Lega, Vladimir Putin and Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban have in common? The answer is that they all favour closed...

10.05.18 Publication: La Stampa

Europe faces a severe test of its resilience, its coherence, its self-sufficiency -- the toughest, in fact, since 1945. Deserted and attacked by its closest...

08.05.18 Publication: La Stampa

Perplexed. Baffled. Disdainful. Pitying. But in the end, not really interested. Those are sort of the words and phrases that came to my mind as I asked...

27.04.18 Publication: La Stampa

It made great television, for the place where the leaders of North and South Korea met on April 27th, the so-called De-Militarized Zone on the border between...

06.04.18 Publication: La Stampa

Across Europe, left-wing, social-democratic parties are in disarray, unable to find a coherent answer to the global financial crisis and to high public debts...

13.01.18 Publication: La Stampa

In every national election, there is a choice of emphasis: policies, political parties or personalities. While winner-takes-all electoral systems in the US,...

06.11.17 Publication: La Stampa

Normally, if a US President were to land in China in the midst of the longest visit to Asia by any American president for 25 years, it would be a demonstration...

25.10.17 Publication: La Stampa

So we now know that President Xi Jinping is considered the most important, and thus most powerful, Chinese leader since the “Great Helmsman” Mao Zedong,...

04.10.17 Publication: La Stampa

Every time North Korea tests a nuclear weapon or missile, the question hangs in the mind: why are they doing this? Is it just to deter any potential attacker?...

04.10.17 Publication: La Stampa

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29.07.17 Publication: La Stampa

General de Gaulle: a tall, proud,  somewhat pompous nationalist who sees himself as being free to take his own initiatives. Such a stance is admirable in its...

12.06.17 Publication: La Stampa

Following President Trump’s first visit to Europe, the Western alliance looks frayed and fragile. Not only has the leading country of the West elected a...

12.04.17 Publication: La Stampa

With less than two weeks to go before the first round of France’s presidential election, financial markets are waking up to a new potential nightmare. Having...

09.11.16 Publication: La Stampa

President Vladimir Putin must be a happy man: in January he will have  America’s version of Silvio Berlusconi as his counterpart in the White House. He had...

20.10.16 Publication: La Stampa

Most of President Barack Obama´s foreign policy has had to be reactive to inherited wars, to new civil wars, to new sources of pressure and instability. But...

20.10.16 Publication: La Stampa

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18.05.16 Publication: La Stampa

To vote to impeach a president is, in any country, a kind of political nuclear weapon: it should be a very last resort, for such an extreme act can have...

18.05.16 Publication: La Stampa

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24.03.16 Publication: La Stampa

After terrorist atrocities such as those in Brussels yesterday or in Paris in January and November last year, the political pressure to react, to act, to fight...

24.03.16 Publication: La Stampa

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10.03.16 Publication: La Stampa

There is something very disturbing about doing a deal, involving billions of euros and a lot of concessions, with a country whose government has become so...

19.01.16 Publication: La Stampa

The collapse of the “Schengen” passport-free travel zone would destroy the single market and the euro, according to Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the...