“… We decide to enter into an agreement with the te-desco giant Rewe to create a chain of discount stores to be called Penny Market, controlled with 50 per cent equal shares. A decision by the board of directors is required to start the venture. I vote in favour of our father’s proposal, while his historic lawyer Alfonso Pellegatta is against it…’ Le Ossa dei Caprotti, page 169
Trump has convinced his voters that tariffs will be paid by foreign exporters and not by American consumers. But soon even the most ardent Maga supporter, once at the checkout counter of a supermarket, will get the suspicion that the opposite is happening. The Sheet 26 August 2025
The piece is very interesting for three reasons: 1) the story of Claudio Caprotti’s career path, 2) the example of the parallel whisky market, 3) the sale of salt 4) the assessment of the food department of La Standa
On knowledge, innovations, skills, manufacturing industry, US debt and rare earths, China definitely holds more ‘cards’ than the US
42% of Italian farms have less than two hectares of olive groves, which means that slightly less than half of all olive farms are engaged in hobby or self-consumption production.
agriculture, migrants and oil are the stakes
The inventor of the ‘walking’ ice cream was Italo Marchioni, a native of the province of Belluno and resident of New York, who invented a wafer that could hold ice cream on 13 December 1903
With Syria, Obama’s renunciation marked a turning point in American policy: from now on, the US will no longer intervene unless its security interests are directly at stake
Let us remember: correct information, freedom of the press, coincide with democracy, and ultimately with our freedom in the broadest sense
There is a big difference between protecting farmers, through, for example, limiting unfair practices, and producing ‘some pasta’
The most important reasons why the US should be interested in Africa are: rare earths and metals. But also the demographic explosion (in 2050 there will be 2.5 billion Africans) which intersects with Islamic fundamentalism. Russia and China are taking advantage of the Trump administration’s mistakes
Mahamat Idriss Déby unilaterally broke the military cooperation agreements with France in November 2024, deemed “obsolete” and “outdated” – precipitating, in January, the departure of a thousand soldiers from the last anchorage point of the anti-jihadist operation “Barkhane”, which was halted at the end of November 2022 : the country preferred the Russian orbit to French influence
