Onu - 16 Novembre 2020 Cambiamento climatico: Guterres chiede un “grande salto” verso la neutralità del carbonio Durante Bloomberg New Economy Forum tenuto oggi, Antonio Guterres ha descritto l’evento come “un municipio globale” che riunisce governi, affari, tecnologie ed università. “Il 2021 deve essere l’anno di un grande balzo verso la neutralità del carbonio. Ogni paese, città, istituto finanziario e azienda dovrebbe adottare piani per la transizione a zero emissioni nette entro […]
News - 21 Luglio 2020 Next Generation EU: After a Marathon of Negotiation, Everyone Wins and Loses A very hard political game has been played on the governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). The issue raised by the Netherlands in a provocative way, however, is systemic. The alleged Conte-Rutte clash has been a pretext for the latter and for the Austrian Prime Minister Kurz to underline the desire to replace the Franco-German axis with a "hybrid" one, with variable geographies, in which even the little countries can count. In the clash between the Frugal4 and Germany and France, does Italy gain? There are two visions of Europe and European integration on the scales, where for now the Euro-opportunist seems to have prevailed, but the game is not over. The European Commission is the big loser in this marathon of negotiation….
Primo Piano - 21 Luglio 2020 Next Generation EU: dopo la maratona di trattative, tutti vincenti e scontenti Sulla governance della Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) si è invece giocata una partita politica durissima. Il tema sollevato in modo provocatorio dall’Olanda, in ogni caso, è sistemico. Il presunto scontro Conte-Rutte è servito a quest’ultimo e al Primo ministro austriaco Kurz per sottolineare la volontà di sostituire l’asse franco-tedesco con uno “ibrido”, a geografie variabili, in cui anche i piccoli abbiano voce in capitolo. Nello scontro tra "frugali" e Germania e Francia, l'Italia gode? Sulla bilancia ci sono due visioni di Europa e di integrazione, dove per ora sembra aver prevalso quella euro-opportunista, ma la partita è ancora tutta aperta. La Commissione europea è la grande sconfitta di questa maratona negoziale...
News - 7 Maggio 2020 What Will the Post-COVID19 World Be Like According to Commissioner Borrell The crisis will not change or delete those issues, but it will speed them up, reinforce and exacerbate them: “We will surely find that tomorrow’s world will be like today’s, only worse,” said Borrell.
U.N. - 9 Aprile 2020 EU Enforces Embargo on Libya, UN Security Council Supports “IRINI” Six weeks after a first political agreement was reached between Member States, the European Union launched the new military operation in the Mediterranean to stop arm dealings.
News - 14 Giugno 2019 European Citizens Want to Protect and Change Europe The unexpected new thing revealed by the elections is the fact that political forces that are not against the institutional system (ALDE and the Greens) have been able to attract and provide political representation to the demand for (a better) Europe. It is to be hoped that this demand will not be betrayed. Europe needs profound innovation in a plurality of strategic fields of policy – the environment, the job market, the fight against inequalities, the economy, migration, social cohesion, trade, security and rights. It is to be hoped that the new political order emerging from the ballot box will enable the democratic forces to deal with this huge task adequately. The opportunities to learn from mistakes are infinite.
Arts - 8 Maggio 2019 BARCA NOSTRA, an Exhibition on Europe’s Migration Crisis at La Biennale Exactly four years after the tragic shipwreck that occurred on April 18th, 2015, the boat was released on April 18th, 2019, by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the Italian Ministry of Defense, to be handed over to the Commune of Augusta through the project BARCA NOSTRA. It was a bureaucratic odyssey riddled with obstacles, to clear the ownership and responsibilities regarding the shipwreck’s uncertain fate, and to prepare the boat for the continuation of its journey.
News - 27 Dicembre 2018 From Being Part of the Erasmus Generation to a Convinced Eurosceptic I had friends from all over Europe. We were young, but we still opened the door to the diversity that characterizes us in our adulthood. The Germans would quietly show off, they were the momentum of the European economy…
News - 18 Dicembre 2018 Identity? It Is like Drinking Coke When You Are Thirsty If a person is thirsty and all she/he can see is a glass of Coca-Cola, she/he will want to drink it, seeing it as the right way to quench their thirst. And yet we know that drinking a sugary drink like Coca-Cola only gives a momentary reprieve from thirst, after which it gets worse...
U.N. - 17 Luglio 2017 UNICEF Thanks Italy’s Rescue of Migrants, but Warns Rome on its New NGO Code of Conduct A statement from UNICEF stated that the Italian government's newly proposed code of conduct would prevent NGO vessels from entering Libyan waters to complete rescues and bar them from making phone calls or firing flares to signal their location to migrant boats in distress: "Restrictions on sea rescues or sending refugee children back to Libya are not solutions."