Over the past few years, Elon Musk has gradually transcended the boundaries of industry to take an increasingly central role in American politics. From his visits to the White House to his outbursts on X (formerly Twitter), via his leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

Political instability is no longer a prerogative of southern European countries. The recent fall of the government in the Netherlands, led by Dick Schoof, and the structural difficulties in Germany and Sweden mark a paradigm shift in the perception of political solidity in northern Europe. The idea of a ‘Nordic exceptionalism’ – capable of combining […]

“Cuba is not just a problem for Cubans. It is an international laboratory of totalitarianism, a node in the global authoritarian network. As long as Europe continues to treat it as a legitimate interlocutor, it remains complicit.” With these unequivocal words, Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat—political scientist and long-time human rights activist—denounces the indifference of the European Union […]

“On 1 June, Russia lost twenty nuclear bombers in a single day”.It sounds like a sentence from a dystopian or apocalyptic novel, in which the air fleets of the great powers compete in the skies while explosions on the ground wipe out millions of lives. Moreover, if we were reading this news in the bulletin […]

Part 1 – Russian conditions: a document of ‘peace’ or hegemony? On 1 June 2025, shortly after the brief meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul (which lasted less than an hour), Russian media published what is described as a proposal for a peace agreement by the Russian Federation, presented as the basis […]

The last month of the Polish presidency of the EU Council opened with the presidential runoff victory of the PiS Eurosceptic candidate Karol Nawrocki. This was the opposite of the pro-European government coalition led by Donald Tusk. Now the political-institutional uncertainty in Warsaw is reaffirmed, swinging back and forth between the Europe of Brussels and […]