the word does not appear in dictionaries until the late 1980s, since it finds its origin in the Russian term ‘dezinformatzija’ (дезинформация): it refers to a Russian tactical weapon dating back to 1923, when the deputy chairman of the State Political Directorate – the GPU, forerunner of the KGB – called for the foundation of ‘a special disinformation bureau to conduct tactical intelligence operations
European e-commerce risks speaking only American, with Amazon, German, with Lidl, or Chinese with JD.com, Temu and Shein
The real crux of the matter is the technological acceleration of Walmart and Amazon, absolute leaders, absolutely unattainable for European retail, which will continue to suffer unfair competition from online platforms
Europeans get poorer, Americans richer even as US debt soars
The border issue between Poland and Belarus could be an opportunity to impose the regulation suggested by the EU, implement the customs union and deal with Beijing. Of course, this will not be easy given the opposition to any progress in European construction by countries such as Hungary and Slovakia, for example
Tunisia and Niger are crucial hubs on the migration routes to Europe and Putin is trying to control them. These are also joined by Libya
Pros and cons of the European Union and the Britain that left us in 2016: the British had higher inflation but created a humus suitable for the development of start-ups over a billion. The Germans have a banking system that is not conducive to the birth of unicorns. Italy least of all.
“Departures from Libya amount to 93 per cent of the illegal crossings, we estimated an increase of 7 per cent along the central Mediterranean route and 173 per cent related to arrivals in Greece from the east of Libya” Ursula Von Der Leyen
How to conquer a sovereign country not with tanks, but by manipulating elections, spreading propaganda, using information technology and sophisticated tools of influence. The goal is to elect puppet governments through these manipulations… Involving other countries in Europe and Africa in this – undeclared but real – global war
On 30 November 1939, Soviet forces invaded Finland, but the Russian plan of a blitzkrieg, in the style of the German Blitzkrieg, failed miserably in the face of the strenuous defence implemented by the Finnish forces. Great similarities with the war in Ukraine: in both cases, the Russians underestimated first the Finnish and then the Ukrainian enemies. Karelia and Kaliningrad perfect bases for Putin’s hybrid warfare
Francesco Lollobrigiba: ‘We don’t just want to understand how the mechanisms of self-sufficiency and food sovereignty are created, but to understand how food and agricultural production can create wealth, penetrate other markets with the Geographical Indications system’, which in Italy are worth 20 billion and employ 250,000 people
