Technology platforms are like transnational states: they may perhaps pay fines in the billions, but they will almost certainly never pay taxes equivalent to those paid by their competitors. And they will therefore continue to operate by competing unfairly with them
The Italian government votes in favour after the increase in Pac funds and guarantees on reciprocity. While according to the UIV there will be new opportunities for wine, the other unions remain sceptical. Confindustria in favour
The military operation in Venezuela seems to have been brilliantly executed, and this has allowed Trump to adopt a victorious position, which I believe his base appreciates more than any particular ideology
Melting ice in the Arctic will open up northern trade routes, and Russia is well placed to capitalise on the consequences of climate change
Why France and Italy have allied themselves to say no, at least for the time being, to the ratification of Mercosur, whose ratification must be considered very carefully: the health of Europeans depends on it
How has our relationship with food changed over the last hundred years? In the first episode of the docuseries “What We Eat”, produced in collaboration with @foodunfolded with the support of EIT Food and co-funded by the European Union, we trace the evolution of our relationship with food, which has been turned on its head in just one century
By intervening in Venezuela, Washington is hitting one of Moscow’s sensitive spots: its oil revenues. The US is aiming to revive oil facilities that are no longer in operation, seeming to jettison the joint venture agreement renewed for fifteen years in November 2025 between Venezuela’s state-owned Petroleos and a subsidiary of the Russian company Roszarubezhneft
In 2023, school curricula were further militarised with a course on how to use a Kalashnikov rifle, how to dismantle and reassemble weapons, but fundamentals of ‘psychological and information warfare’ are also taught in the early years of high school.
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
Europeans get poorer, Americans richer even as US debt soars
