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Auchan-Conad-Raffaele Mincione WHAT A STRANGE TRIANGULATION. About journalists, cooperatives and trade unions

For financier Raffaele Mincione – former partner of Conad – 5 years and 6 months, plus 8,000 euro fine and perpetual disqualification from public office. I met Mauro Suttora in 2009. He told me that the publisher who had commissioned this article did not want to publish it. The affair ends with the investigation into the top management for corruption (2025), which could end ‘in tar and feathers’

Collaborations / Projects History of Esselunga History of the Caprotti and Venosta families Presentations

Summary of my speech at the Salone del Risparmio, Milan on 16 April 2025

If there is no clarity, irrational dynamics of jealousy and annoyance are triggered, which become grains of sand in the wheels of the company. People start to stop talking to each other, or to do so through other people, or to write to each other. And at that point, the disaster begins

Geopolitics and History

The Russian project for the United States: second episode

The American president admires the way Putin defeated his enemies at home and is ready to take deferential advice from him. Like Putin, Trump is above all a man of resentment and revenge. Nothing consolidates an alliance better than shared hatred. Putin masterfully plays on Trump’s paranoid conspiracy theories and his unhealthy thirst for revenge. He convinced him that support for Ukraine was Biden’s policy, so he absolutely had to distance himself from it if he didn’t want to turn to men who had served in the Democratic administration

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Food and Retail History People, Environment & Culture

Is there a solution for the food we import from countries that use pesticides banned in Europe?

The Mercosur free trade agreement could be an opportunity to try to align the rules between South America and the European Union. Trade unions, such as Coldiretti, should not dissipate their forces on meaningless projects such as the no to ‘cultured meat’ or the production of dried pasta, and focus on reciprocity of import standards

History of the Caprotti and Venosta families Press & Events

According to Google, Bernardo Caprotti has no children. And the Corriere della sera does not help

For Google, My mother Giorgina Venosta still does not exist and Wikipedia has deleted the page on Guido Venosta, creator of the Italian Association for Cancer Research. The picture is completed by the Corriere della Sera – national edition – which, for example, after deleting me in 2020, is one of the few Italian newspapers not to have reviewed my book, Le Ossa dei Caprotti