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“Poland takes a step towards war” – this is how *Il Manifesto* interpreted, on its front page on 29 September, the statements made by the Polish Deputy Minister of Defence, Tomczyk, on aviation security. As reported by the most reputable international news agencies, Poland will allow its fighter jets and helicopters to shoot down foreign […]

Three years later, Israel is still asked not only to explain how it defends itself, but why it should be allowed to exist in the first place. Europe, meanwhile, has learned that antisemitism never really went away. It just got better at changing clothes. Start With What Happened Three years have passed since October 7, […]

The war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran in February has brought Iranian missiles and drones down on the Gulf and choked shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. It would be easy to conclude that the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, the ambitious plan to link India to Europe through the Gulf and […]

Tbilisi has joined the condemnation of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Just a few days earlier, the pro-Russian candidate had won the elections in the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Europe is now awaiting a turning point. A surprise turn of events. On 24 September, on the sidelines of the UN Security Council meeting on Russia’s […]

Eight hundred years on, the Franciscan lesson speaks to a continent called upon to reconcile freedom and security, tradition and progress, interfaith dialogue and technological innovation Eight hundred years after the death of Francis of Assisi, 4 October is once again a national holiday in Italy. This is not merely a return to the calendar. […]

For decades, the economic heart of Europe has been identified primarily with its central-western axis. That centre of gravity remains fundamental, but trade, infrastructure, energy and new relationships with the southern shore are making the picture more complex. The Mediterranean is no longer merely the southern edge of the single market, but a space linking […]