Publication: La Stampa

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...

30.12.15 Publication: La Stampa

It will be a decision that shapes Britain, and its place in the world, for decades to come, perhaps for the whole of the 21st century. It will be a decision...

30.12.15 Publication: La Stampa

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08.12.15 Publication: La Stampa

The only thing that is “shocking” about the vote in Sunday’s French regional elections for the far-right Front National is that anyone in politics or the...

20.11.15 Publication: La Stampa

Frau Merkel is, of course, completely different from Herr Schmidt. He was arrogant and plain-speaking, the opposite of diplomatic, while she is diffident and...

30.10.15 Publication: La Stampa

It is an act typical of an old Communist regime where officials think that if they send out a decree, things will actually happen: 35 years after China...

26.09.15 Publication: La Stampa

What makes for successful leadership, in these troubled times? America has for the past few days been witnessing two very different foreign leaders: one from...

13.09.15 Publication: La Stampa

When the Partito Democratico suffered its surprise general election defeat in 2013, the party eventually indicated its desire for change by choosing a...

02.09.15 Publication: La Stampa

How awkward it is to have ministers who speak freely to the media using words you cannot control. That is the eternal truth for prime ministers everywhere, but...

02.09.15 Publication: La Stampa

How awkwardit is to have ministers who speak freely to the media using words you cannot control. That is the eternal truth for prime ministers everywhere,...

26.07.15 Publication: La Stampa

Ever since their first contact with Europeans in the 16th century, the Japanese have always seemed hard to understand. The 70th anniversary of one of the worst...