Geopolitics

Meloni, press conference marked by a pragmatism that suggests a slowdown

A three-hour-long press conference, forty questions. Giorgia Meloni picked the traditional start-of-the-year conference to discuss the latest foreign policy shifts by the US, explain the government'...

Attack on Venezuela: how did China react?

“It was a friendly meeting, reaffirming the strong bonds of friendship between China and Venezuela. In good and bad times!” The last words posted on Nicolas Maduro's social media profile...

Trump's energy imperialism is a danger to the future of the human species

Oil's role in the US military action in Venezuela is first and foremost made clear by figures: the world's leading oil producer has attacked the country with the world's largest oil reserves. But it...

New Nightmare on Elm Street: The “Donroe Doctrine” and Its Implications

In the 1984 slasher film, Nightmare on Elm Street, US Midwestern teenagers fall prey to the evil Freddy Krueger, who after invading the teenagers’ dream worlds turns their dreams of disme...

Gen-Z, tariffs and elections: 2025 seen through Asia

While, contrary to popular belief, the famous Chinese anathema ‘May you live in interesting times’ is not Chinese at all, 2025 has certainly been a decidedly “interesting” ye...

China heads towards five-year plan for strategic resilience

The Fourth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party has concluded in Beijing. For four days, from 20 to 23 October, the CCP leadership convened in what is traditionally a time ...

Think Business, Think Hong Kong 2025 lands in Milan

In a challenging phase for transatlantic trade relations, especially for the green economy sector, looking to China and Hong Kong in particular becomes an opportunity for Italian companies to divers...

The Africa of critical minerals seeks a fair energy transition

They are called sacrifice zones: territories where the well-being of people and the environment is put on the back burner in the name of the common good. This often happens in Africa, where many of ...

Israel and Hamas have signed the agreement for the first phase of Trump’s plan

“The final draft of phase one was signed this morning in Egypt by all parties for the release of all hostages.” This was announced by Israeli government spokesperson Shosh Bedrosian, who...

A New Global Map Reveals 426 Shared Aquifers Crossing Borders

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The world’s hidden water reserves have just been mapped with unprecedented detail. The Inter...

The green dragon: China now holds the climate leadership

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano from New York – “The green and low-carbon transition is the trend of our time. Yet som...

Towards a new WTO: China waives “special treatment”

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The announcement almost went unnoticed, during a side meeting of the UN General Assembly in New Yo...

At War with the Future: Trump Speaks at the UN General Assembly 

A legend in his own mind, Donald Trump took to the podium at the UN General Assembly in New York to lambaste the United Nations as an organization, praise himself for all his economic and political ...

Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly: a lengthy speech against climate change, the United Nations and Europe

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano from New York - “Climate change is the biggest con job ever.” “Renewables are a ...

Un General Assembly: France and nine other western countries recognise Palestine as a state

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From New York - “France will recognise the Palestinian state.” These were the wor...

Water: 1 in 4 without safe access. Arrojo-Agudo: the real figure is double that

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Fifteen years after the historic UN resolution that established access to safe drinking water and ...

American Pastoral

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano On 4 November 2008, I was among the thousands who gathered in Grant Park, Chicago, to witness the ...

The US threatens retaliation against states that will support the IMO Net Zero Framework

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The United States announced that it will retaliate against countries that next October will confir...

Global Plastics Treaty, INC-5.2 ends without agreement and amid controversy

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano After a night of closed-door meetings and a day later than scheduled, the final plenary session of...

Subsidence, Tehran is sinking: the hidden cost of water

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Tehran is sinking, and with it, much of Iran. This is a plain fact, not a metaphor for the country...