The UK’s trade in goods has fallen by 10% since 2019, while that of the other G7 countries has grown by 5%. And eight years after Bexit, we know the result: an isolated country with ‘amputated’ growth, a stifled healthcare system, Northern Ireland wanting secession… the promise to regain control over immigration has ended with the number of incoming foreigners doubling
Kirillov did a ‘very good job’ and indeed, today, much of Italian public opinion would be in favour of Ukraine surrendering to Putin’s Russia, without looking too much at the conditions imposed by Russia and the possible consequences of raising the white flag.
The war between Russia and Ukraine has important effects on the political and economic development of Europe. These two articles – which I have combined into one – capture some little-known aspects of propaganda and trade with Russia.
What do Western countries risk in this scenario? “If they allow Putin to prevail, they will not only have lost Ukraine. They will have lost the West, because those who follow this war in China, in Africa, in Latin America will see that the West is not capable of defending its values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law. And then others will also attack Western interests in the world, convinced that the West is no longer what they knew”
How Putin is winning the wheat and fertiliser war
There is a huge difference between news reporting and history
(…) Let’s start thinking of a dossier that shows how, from both the members’ and the social point of view, cooperatives are enterprises like any other. It follows that the favourable conditions from which they benefit are state aid. We set up an internal working group and (…) gather all the necessary documentation to support our conviction. The dossier will then be taken to Brussels by Federdistribuzione and will change, at least in part, the taxation of cooperatives. In their defence even Massimo D’Alema is moving …
