In response to the Soviet decision to deploy SS-20 missiles, NATO adopted the ‘twin-track approach’: to station missiles in Europe whilst simultaneously negotiating disarmament with the USSR. Italy chose Comiso Airport as the base for 112 Cruise missiles. The deployment caused extremely high tensions between 1981 and 1983 and gave rise to a major peace movement. Catholic and left-wing
In the United States, a fifth of food spending takes place online: what does the Italian retail sector intend to do? Does it want to come of age, or cede ground to the Chinese, the Germans and the Americans?
Donald Trump could have dealt the final blow in the war against Vladimir Putin’s Russia and brought it down. All the conditions were in place, but he decided instead to remain ‘Our man in Washington’: Trump in the hands of the Russians
In the future, in Europe too, the agri-food sector and trade will play an increasingly important geopolitical role, with technology playing a central part
The real crux of the matter is the rapid technological advancement of Walmart and Amazon, the undisputed market leaders, which European retailers can never hope to match, and which will continue to subject them to unfair competition from online platforms
Russia and North Korea are certainly very similar; they are both ruthless dictatorships, but Chinese leader Xi’s current visit makes it clear that whilst Putin’s economy and power are in decline, Kim has benefited from his involvement in the war in Ukraine and from the prospect of possessing nuclear weapons
The ever-growing pile of Gazan corpses marks, like a metronome, the dwindling time for the hostages and the forthcoming announcements of fallen Israeli soldiers, but above all it stands there to remind us of the moral abyss into which we have fallen. ‘An abyss in which the death of dozens, hundreds of human beings has become routine.’ Etgar Keret
On the cover you will find a sentence found in Corriere della Sera and it is what we fear most: a loosening of quality standards in European food, with a possible invasion of ‘Made in USA’ products
Demand for alternative energy to oil, fertiliser demand and financial speculation threaten to exacerbate the storm unleashed by the war against Iran
The supermarket idea turned out to be a move for which there were no answers, and in the long run one of the moves that led the US to win the cultural and economic game they played with us on the chessboard of Europe
The objectives of the Mattei plan are unclear and the risk of an autogoal on Italian agriculture is possible
This new shock, after the inflationary shock caused by the attack on Ukraine, in addition to triggering a humanitarian cause, risks creating political extremism and new waves of migration towards Europe. It obviously adds to the short-sighted suspension of the dismantling of Usaid
