Europe has fallen behind America and the gap is growing
Europeans get poorer, Americans richer even as US debt soars
Border closure between Poland and Belarus affects EU-China trade
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
Russia, through a new agreement with Niger, takes control of migration flows to Italy
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
Brexit: between inflation and new unicorns
The pros and cons of the European Union and the Britain that left us in 2016: the British experienced higher inflation but created a fertile ground for the development of start-ups valued at over a billion. The Germans have a banking system that is not conducive to the emergence of unicorns. Italy, least of all.
Libya on the route of human traffickers
“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
Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war against Europe
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
The Winter War saw Finland and the Soviet Union confront each other in a short but bloody conflict
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
Mattei Plan: €160 million for Mozambique
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
JBS, the Brazilian meat giant, is set to benefit from the treaty between Europe and Mercosur
Great attention should be paid to safeguard clauses and reciprocity agreements, but the EU-Mercosur agreement should not be held up as a scapegoat against which to vent one’s frustration at problems in the sector that actually have an entirely different cause: first and foremost, the low profitability of the agricultural sector compared with the rest of the economy
Walmart shows Trump’s duties fall on Americans
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
Tunisia and Libya are key in countering immigration whose route is under Russian control
agriculture, migrants and oil are the stakes
Syria: How Europe found itself alone and weak in the face of Russia
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
