Great attention should be paid to safeguard clauses and reciprocity agreements, but the EU-Mercosur agreement should not be erected as a totem against which to hurl one’s frustration at problems in the sector that actually have an entirely different origin: first and foremost, the low profitability of the land trades compared to the rest of the economy
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
On knowledge, innovations, skills, manufacturing industry, US debt and rare earths, China definitely holds more ‘cards’ than the US
agriculture, migrants and oil are the stakes
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
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Idriss Déby unilaterally broke the military cooperation agreements with France in November 2024, deemed “obsolete” and “outdated” – precipitating, in January, the departure of a thousand soldiers from the last anchorage point of the anti-jihadist operation “Barkhane”, which was halted at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
“…more than antitrust, I see geopolitics as the main issue here: controlling not only production but also distribution in Europe is a strategic issue…”
We are a country of processors: only one pasta dish in five is made from Italian wheat. We import wheat, pulses, milk, oil, tomatoes and beef. But the quality and safety of our food depends on tariff negotiations
What do these cuts mean? A major strategic error, which harms the United States first and foremost and the world in general. The Usaid cuts were a point of friction between Pope Francis and Donald Trump’s government
The possible consequences of the cessation of US assistance to fourteen ‘famine’ countries. In addition to hunger and death there will be more instability, more wars and more fundamentalist Islamism
