Emanuele Pinelli, Autore presso L'Europeista

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When French sci-finance meets Italian conspiracy theories, both die

Emanuele Pinelli 15/10/2026 No Comments

For years we have scrupulously played the part of Europe’s usual black sheep: the spread on our back, budgets perpetually in intensive care, and that air of being a special…

Warships in the Taiwan Strait: merits and flaws of the text adopted in Strasbourg

Emanuele Pinelli 09/10/2026 No Comments

With 454 votes in favour, the European Parliament has called for a continuous naval presence in the Taiwan Strait. The Left is attempting to strike out this passage, whilst it…

‘Righteous’ hatred of the Jews. How 7 October won over Italian public opinion

Emanuele Pinelli 07/10/2026 No Comments

Just as on 24 February 2022, 7 October 2023 also handed the aggressor a valuable political victory: that of ever-increasing support from Western public opinion for his cause, coupled with…

St Francis, Europe and peace that can stand its ground

Emanuele Pinelli 04/10/2026 No Comments

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…

Manila and Brussels join forces: the trade agreement that sends a message to China

Emanuele Pinelli 22/09/2026 No Comments

During the night between Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 September, the European Commission and the Philippine government announced that they had reached a substantial agreement on a future free trade…

The Philosopher’s Chip: the troubles of the AI industry explained through those of alchemy

Emanuele Pinelli 16/09/2026 No Comments

The events of the past week are well known. It all started with Jacob Coxon, a researcher who worked for Anthropic after previously having been employed by OpenAI, and who…

“Get ready, because everything is about to change”

Emanuele Pinelli 11/09/2026 No Comments

One of the things that really stuck with meabout 11 September 2001 (I was 13 at the time) was what my uncle said whilst we were watching those indescribable images…

The paradox of the far right, which turns inconsistencies into credentials

Emanuele Pinelli 11/09/2026 No Comments

There is something almost fascinating – were it not for the fact that it is politically disturbing – about the ability of the contemporary far right to turn contradiction into…

Manila shows us that it is possible to stand up to Beijing, even live worldwide

Emanuele Pinelli 09/09/2026 No Comments

In Seoul, during an international security forum, a Chinese official had a note delivered to the Philippine Defence Minister, Gilberto Teodoro, setting out Beijing’s official position on the South China…

The AfD is set to win in Saxony. Brrr, how scary

Emanuele Pinelli 06/09/2026 No Comments

Note: this article reflects only the author’s own views. Saxony-Anhalt is a region in eastern Germany, the birthplace of Luther and Handel. It has a population of around two million.…

Iceland’s ‘No’ to Europe and the real reason behind the rift between the city and the countryside

Emanuele Pinelli 31/08/2026 No Comments

The Icelandic referendumon opening negotiations withthe European Union has painted a picture we have seen many times before: cities look beyond their borders, whilst suburbs and the countryside do so…

The Atlas of whims: if Trump tries to call everything ‘America’

Emanuele Pinelli 28/08/2026 No Comments

First the Gulf of Mexico, then Lake Ontario, and on to the oceans. US foreign policy seems to have discovered a new tool for exerting international pressure. And if this…

Recruiting women? In Ukraine, some have broken the taboo. The Israeli precedent

Emanuele Pinelli 27/08/2026 No Comments

Compulsory conscription of women is not currently part of the Ukrainian authorities’ plans. On 25 August, the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence issued…

The ship stuck between China and the Philippines, where any provocation could lead to war

Emanuele Pinelli 26/08/2026 No Comments

Between the BRP Sierra Madre, China’s latest moves regarding Scarborough Shoal and an increasingly intense naval presence, Manila and Beijing are entering a phase in which any incident could have…

The midterm elections are decided in just a few constituencies. And the primaries have changed the game

Emanuele Pinelli 26/08/2026 No Comments

From Michigan to Texas, from Pennsylvania to Alaska, the majority in Congress hinges on a handful of contests. In some cases, the selection of highly ideologically polarised candidates has turned…

29 states take on Zuckerberg: the trial of the century gets off to a (late and rocky) start

Emanuele Pinelli 25/08/2026 No Comments

“This week, we’re in court with the largest consumer protection lawsuit in American history. We’ll show a jury that Meta concealed what it knew about the harm its products cause…

What if the success of the US and China were simply underpinned by a mountain of debt?

Emanuele Pinelli 23/08/2026 No Comments

Whilst the European economic debate often remains bogged down in budgetary constraints, deficit-to-GDP ratios and rigid stability criteria, a completely different financial game has been playing out for years across…

We need European political parties

Emanuele Pinelli 23/08/2026 No Comments

If the European Union is to become a true federation, it must begin to adopt a transnational party system. If we try to define the concept of a political party,…

Italy does not need to improve the National Health Service. It needs to move beyond it

Emanuele Pinelli 23/08/2026 No Comments

Italy Doesn’t Need a Better National Health Service. It Needs to Move Beyond It Scott Atlas’s lecture at the Hoover Institution made me question an assumption Italians almost never question:…

Putin’s message to Japan

Emanuele Pinelli 17/08/2026 No Comments

The Kuril Islands may seem like a remote corner of the Pacific, but they continue to influence the strategic balance of power in North-East Asia. Vladimir Putin’s visit to Iturup…

“Bleeding for Ukraine”: much ado about 72 euro

Emanuele Pinelli 17/08/2026 No Comments

There is a strand of public debate on the continent that never ceases to fascinate those whose profession involves analysing figures with even a modicum of rigour. It is the…

August 15: on the dignity of us all being emperors

Emanuele Pinelli 15/08/2026 No Comments

From the feriae of Rome to the ‘image of God’ in Genesis, right through to the Assumption of Mary: a brief European history of dignity and freedom. The holiday that…

Well, yes: Trump is refunding the tariffs income. A 100 billion drain on US coffers

Emanuele Pinelli 07/08/2026 No Comments

The action film and the unconstitutional farce If trade policy and monetary policy were eligible for the Oscars, the current US administration would already have the statuette for Best Science…

Climate crisis: we are now among the victims. Let’s stop pretending to be among the culprits

Emanuele Pinelli 06/08/2026 No Comments

Today, Italy has broken a record: all 27 of its largest cities are under a ‘red alert’ for extreme heat on the same day. On top of physical exhaustion and…

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Not just migrants: Morocco is a Chinese outpost on our doorstep

Emanuele Pinelli 06/08/2026 No Comments

At the end of July, Rabat stopped issuing visa confirmation letters to Taiwanese citizens without prior notice. Taipei, in turn, responded by suspending visas for Moroccans. A consular skirmish that…

Michigan: for the US Democrats, the real challenge begins now

Emanuele Pinelli 05/08/2026 No Comments

Abdul El-Sayed ’s victory in the Democratic primary for the Michigan Senate seat is set to have consequences that extend far beyond the borders of this Great Lakes state. This…

The ‘right to repair’ is now law in the EU. And it may well throw a spanner in the works for China

Emanuele Pinelli 31/07/2026 No Comments

A few days ago, after almost seven years, I had to say goodbye to my Fairphone.A couple of nasty drops had broken the motherboard – the only part of the…

Longevity risk: why living longer frightens us. The Italian case

Emanuele Pinelli 27/07/2026 No Comments

Italy is undergoing a silent but deadly crisis, the effects of which are manifesting themselves with the ruthless precision of financial mathematics. There is a chain reaction sweeping through the…

The cockroaches won’t be squashed anymore. Indian Gen Z rises up against Modi

Emanuele Pinelli 27/07/2026 No Comments

In mid-May, a judge at the Indian Supreme Court compared unemployed young people to cockroaches. They took that word and turned it into a political movement. Since then, India has…

Small kitchen gardens, big illusions: the price of ‘Non-Europe’

Emanuele Pinelli 23/07/2026 No Comments

If there is one discipline in which the European political class – whether of a sovereigntist persuasion or with a supposedly liberal bent – deserves an Olympic gold medal, it…

Do the mob really choose the generals in Ukraine?

Emanuele Pinelli 22/07/2026 No Comments

Over the past week, in Ukraine, we have witnessed something that is, to say the least, unusual for a modern country under martial law. It all began on 15 July,…

Agile, unhindered and low-tax: the job that can prompt Italian youth to stay

Emanuele Pinelli 21/07/2026 No Comments

Every year, thousands of young Italians leave the place where they grew up to seek opportunities elsewhere that they cannot find here. For many, this means moving from the South…

Papua New Guinea closes its doors to Taipei

Emanuele Pinelli 21/07/2026 No Comments

On Wednesday 16 July, Papua New Guinea’s Foreign Minister, Justin Tkatchenko, informed the Chinese Ambassador in Port Moresby, Yang Xiaoguang, of the decision to close Taiwan’s representative office in the…

The Geopolitics of Digital Currencies

Emanuele Pinelli 17/07/2026 No Comments

When we talk about European autonomy and sovereignty, our thoughts almost always turn to defence, energy, semiconductors or telecommunications. Rarely, however, is consideration given to a sector that is just…

Argentina’s scam claim on Falklands exposes the bluff of postcolonial ideology

Emanuele Pinelli 16/07/2026 No Comments

Yesterday, profiting from their victory over England, the Argentine footballers waved a revanchist banner on live television, asserting Argentina’s claim to the ‘Malvinas’. This is a tiny archipelago which is actually…

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Three faltering giants: how the debt of the US, Japan and France is threatening the world

Emanuele Pinelli 14/07/2026 No Comments

For decades, the international financial system has been based on certain statistical assumptions taken to be immutable: government bonds from the major Western democracies are the safe haven par excellence;…

Italian culture is not a fortress but a harbour

Emanuele Pinelli 13/07/2026 No Comments

There is a statement which, in recent years – and even more so in recent weeks – has become one of the most effective slogans of sovereignist rhetoric: “Migrants threaten…

Chat control at any cost. The reasons behind an obsession

Emanuele Pinelli 10/07/2026 No Comments

What is chat control? It is a mass scanning of our private conversations carried out by digital platforms using artificial intelligence algorithms, under the pretext of searching for alleged evidence…

Trump’s U-turn on Ukraine is a success for Europe, but not for Italy

Emanuele Pinelli 10/07/2026 No Comments

The Trump who appeared more pro-Ukrainian than ever at the recent NATO summit in Ankara has not in the slightest changed his mind about the ‘ideal’ outcome of a war…

Italy ran out of NGEU drug. Now it has no longer any excuses

Emanuele Pinelli 10/07/2026 No Comments

In two weeks’ time, Christopher Nolan’s latest film will be released in cinemas, dedicated to one of the founding stories of our civilisation: the Odyssey, the epic tale of Ulysses’s…

Germany (and Italy) at a crossroads: if the people’s car turns its back on the future

Emanuele Pinelli 08/07/2026 No Comments

There is an executive table in Wolfsburg on which lies a document prepared by the Volkswagen Group’s CEO, Oliver Blume. That document contains a figure that everyone present knows by…

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But to do what?

Emanuele Pinelli 06/07/2026 No Comments

Last Saturday, the Americans celebrated the 250th anniversary of their Declaration of Independence. That declaration remains unique in history for its power and audacity: for the first time, in fact,…

The raw materials trap: Italy’s recycling sector risks grinding to a halt

Emanuele Pinelli 05/07/2026 No Comments

There is a distinctly Italian paradox that risks costing us dearly in the coming years. On the one hand, we are top of the class in Europe when it comes…

Productivity: the real crux of the Italian economy

Emanuele Pinelli 05/07/2026 No Comments

Eurostat’s figures offer a hilarious – were it not so tragic – insight into the state of our economy: in 2025, real productivity per hour worked in Italy fell by…

Tibet: a horrific act that demands to be heard – the story of Lobga Rangzen

Emanuele Pinelli 04/07/2026 No Comments

On 2 July 2026, at 17:49 New York time, a 52-year-old Tibetan man set himself alight outside the United Nations headquarters. His name was Lobga Rangzen. He died an hour…

EU Court of Justice deals a blow to Google’s monopoly

Emanuele Pinelli 02/07/2026 No Comments

The European Court of Justice’s final decision to uphold the €4.125 billion fine against Google represents one of the most significant milestones in the long process of regulating the power…

When France scuppered the European Defence Community, of which it is now the leading advocate

Emanuele Pinelli 01/07/2026 No Comments

This is a short essay, which takes about 10 minutes to read. France is now the leading advocateof the EuropeanUnion’s strategic autonomy : a dramatic reversal compared with 1954, when…

Beijing recognises no borders: from 1 July, talking about Taiwan becomes a duty

Emanuele Pinelli 30/06/2026 No Comments

On 1 July, the so-called ‘Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress’ comes into force in China. A reassuring name for a legal instrument that claims the right to prosecute…

Don’t call it extreme heat – it’s the climate crisis

Emanuele Pinelli 30/06/2026 No Comments

Talking about extreme heat, heatwaves or a ‘red alert’ summer does nothing to solve the real problem, which is in fact the climate crisis. Denying the problem – which has…

That good-for-nothing Saint Peter, who makes the whole Gospel all the more credible

Emanuele Pinelli 29/06/2026 No Comments

Some people doubt that the story of Jesus is true. But what about the story of Saint Peter? According to sources, the naive and impulsive fisherman accompanied Jesus throughout almost…

The vocabulary of fear: hard right has replaced reality with slogans

Emanuele Pinelli 27/06/2026 No Comments

Every political era has its own slogans. Some are coined to summarise complex ideas, others to rally support, and still others to point the way forward. Then there are the…

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, even in the world of AI

Emanuele Pinelli 26/06/2026 No Comments

I read that SAP’s share price had fallen by 47% and that, amongst others, Salesforce (-43%), Adobe (-47%), Accenture (-57%) and Intuit (-65%) fared no better, despite the fact that…

Trump’s sham peace deals prove Kant right yet again

Emanuele Pinelli 24/06/2026 No Comments

Since the outbreak of the war, Trump has announced on around fifty occasions that a deal with Iran was imminent. On at least two occasions, international mediators such as Pakistan…

The Trump paradox: absolute master of the GOP and possible enabler of its defeat

Emanuele Pinelli 24/06/2026 No Comments

With just a few months to go until the 2026 mid-term elections, the Republican primaries are providing an interesting snapshot of the state of the Republican Party and, above all,…

A decade of putting the brakes on: Brexit amid London’s illusions and rallies in Rome

Emanuele Pinelli 24/06/2026 No Comments

Exactly ten years ago, on 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom decided to treat itself to the most spectacular and costly midlife crisis in modern geopolitical history. 51.89 per cent…

Taxes and flags: the cross-party festival of magical thinking in Italian economics

Emanuele Pinelli 21/06/2026 No Comments

There is an invisible thread linking the salons of the radical left and the raucous platforms of homegrown sovereignty movements: the unshakeable conviction that the economy is a sort of…

Asfura in Kyiv: the unexpected journey that brings Central America closer to Ukraine

Emanuele Pinelli 21/06/2026 No Comments

To understand what happened in Kyiv last Friday, we need to start with the photographs – or, rather, with one in particular. In front of the Wall of the Fallen…

Microsoft confirms: AI systems are no more sentient than video games. But does anyone care?

Emanuele Pinelli 19/06/2026 No Comments

In early May, inspired by former mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni’s misadventures with Claude, we put forward a provocative question: if AI models are capable of experiencing human emotions, football…

Unicredit, Commerzbank and the death throes of ‘banking sovereignty’

Emanuele Pinelli 17/06/2026 No Comments

There is something deeply therapeutic about watching the European Union grapple with its own dogmas. For decades we have been told, in no uncertain terms, that the single market is…

The bluff over Trump has sidelined Italy in Ukraine and the Balkans

Emanuele Pinelli 17/06/2026 No Comments

For over four years, Western democracies have attempted to ward off the Russian threat by holding a succession of summits and issuing declarations of solidarity, using diplomatic hyperactivity as a…

The emancipated individual: achievements and paradoxes of modern Europe

Emanuele Pinelli 17/06/2026 No Comments

From Renaissance humanism, embodied by figures such as Leonardo da Vinci and Erasmus of Rotterdam, who encouraged and simultaneously influenced critical thinking and the direct observation of reality, to the…

June 2026: Russia in flames and a memory that refuses to fade

Emanuele Pinelli 16/06/2026 No Comments

The first half of June 2026 paints a picture of a Russia that is increasingly closed off, militarised and fragile. Not through a single major news story, but through a…

Vannacci and the triumph of banality

Emanuele Pinelli 15/06/2026 No Comments

There is something deeply unsettling about Roberto Vannacci’s political success. Not so much for the originality of his ideas, which in reality have very little that is new, but for…

People don’t want just their fears to be told, but a world to be built

Emanuele Pinelli 14/06/2026 No Comments

Crowds are not just seeking power. They are seeking a story. They are looking for someone to give a name to their fear, a shape to their anger, a face…

Lima holds its breath: Peru’s future is being decided vote by vote (and overseas)

Emanuele Pinelli 12/06/2026 No Comments

With 98 per cent of the votes counted, the two candidates are separated by just over 600 votes out of 18 million. And the real protagonist at this moment is…

A chapter of Magnificent Humanity seems to have been written for our “pacifists”

Emanuele Pinelli 09/06/2026 No Comments

Pope Leo’s first encyclical is causing a stir, particularly because of the sections specifically devoted to algorithms and AI. This comes as no surprise: to date, it has been the…

Elly Schlein too is proposing an expiring yoghurt-like economic policy

Emanuele Pinelli 06/06/2026 No Comments

There is a conditioned reflex that runs through the changing phases of Italian economic policy. It doesn’t matter what colour the government is or where it sits in Parliament: if…

The middleman and his boss: the Spanish investigation into Zapatero and the Caracas funds

Emanuele Pinelli 05/06/2026 No Comments

Madrid and Miami. Seven thousand kilometres apart, on the same day, the same financial architecture. On 19 May 2026, the Audiencia Nacional signed Judge José Luis Calama’s order: former Prime…

In memory of Alex Pineschi, the gentle face of resistance

Emanuele Pinelli 04/06/2026 No Comments

At the 2 June parade, the Italian Alpine corps showed, as always, all its pride and efficiency. The white feathers of the officers, the winter uniforms, the hi-tech equipment of…

The algorithm recognises us, but does not know us

Emanuele Pinelli 04/06/2026 No Comments

In the debate these days about social networks banned to minors, chatbots, artificial intelligence, pluralism of sources and child protection, we risk losing the essential question. It is not enough…

Colombia turns out bukelista: Abelardo de la Espriella wins the first round of election

Emanuele Pinelli 02/06/2026 No Comments

Abelardo de la Espriella, the lawyer who turned his campaign into personal marketing to the rhythm of reggaeton, almost surprisingly won the first Colombian presidential round against all odds. Now,…

May 2026: Anatomy of a Russia at war with itself

Emanuele Pinelli 31/05/2026 No Comments

In May 2026, war is no longer just a front line, a military bulletin or a matter of geopolitics. In Russia, it enters schools, airports, courts, telephones, children’s books, registers…

From statesman to lobbyist. Zapatero and other former European leaders in the service of rogue states

Emanuele Pinelli 29/05/2026 No Comments

The Zapatero case is a suspected case of corruption, on which it is better not to pronounce in advance of the outcome of the investigation, but it is also a…

Pride, Israel and Palestine: the right to be consistent without ceasing to be free

Emanuele Pinelli 27/05/2026 No Comments

The decision by the organisers of Roma Pride to exclude the Jewish LGBTQIA+ association from the event has opened a political, cultural and even anthropological rift that goes far beyond…

Homo signans before the digital Babel

Emanuele Pinelli 27/05/2026 No Comments

Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas on the Custody of the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence has the merit of removing AI from both naive enthusiasm and…

Democracy is not just voting: the illusion of moral immunity and the Israeli case

Emanuele Pinelli 21/05/2026 No Comments

In contemporary public debate, there is a simplification that is as widespread as it is dangerous: the idea that a country is democratic simply because it organises free elections. It…

What if tourism is a drug that is crippling our Italian economy?

Emanuele Pinelli 19/05/2026 No Comments

Let us begin with an anecdote. Last Saturday, around the Trevi fountain, a fight broke out between two gangs of profiteers who were cheating tourists with the ‘game of the…

Putin’s dead end: why demography will empty the Kremlin’s trenches

Emanuele Pinelli 19/05/2026 No Comments

If there is one thing that now seems clear in the war in Ukraine, it is that, despite the propaganda announcements, the time factor no longer plays in Russia’s favour.…

Those lonelinesses that returned insurmountable

Emanuele Pinelli 18/05/2026 No Comments

These are days of rhetoric, and it is inevitable. After all, it has always been like this. As Emma Bonino recalled at Marco Pannella’s funeral: mocked and laughed at while…

No, mr. Odifreddi: Taiwan is a living democracy, not a fascist statelet

Emanuele Pinelli 17/05/2026 No Comments

During the talk show”L’Aria che tira” on La7, Italian mathematician Piergiorgio Odifreddi compared Taiwan to Mussolini’s late Republic of Salò, stating that the island “has no right to exist” because…

Scientists or birds? The dispute over the new euros

Emanuele Pinelli 11/05/2026 No Comments

In a few weeks the European Central Bank is due to vote on the design of the new euro banknotes. After 24 years of idealised windows and non-existent bridges (at…

Madrid, Beijing, Taipei: the triangle Vox brings to Kallas’ table

Emanuele Pinelli 10/05/2026 No Comments

Santiago Abascal’s party writes to the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Policy and asks for an explanation of what Pedro Sánchez allegedly said to Xi Jinping about Taiwan. Taipei’s representative…

Italian “recovery plan”: chronicle of a missed opportunity

Emanuele Pinelli 10/05/2026 No Comments

The Italy of 2026 looks at the National Recovery and Resilience Plan as one would look at a great love story gone wrong: it began with lofty promises, in a…

Why Brussels is weaving a global network of trade partnerships

Emanuele Pinelli 04/05/2026 No Comments

During her recent speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen clearly outlined one of the main thrusts of the EU’s economic policy…

Russia, spring 2026: digital censorship, militarisation and cracks in consensus

Emanuele Pinelli 04/05/2026 No Comments

Between 19 March and the end of April 2026, the Russian domestic picture showed a concentration of signs that are difficult to reduce to isolated episodes. The period saw intertwined…

Italy: euthanasia of a nation

Emanuele Pinelli 23/04/2026 No Comments

It is no longer time for euphemisms or reassuring dialectical balancing acts. The figures we read in the newspapers today are not ‘cyclical fluctuations’ or ‘unexpected braking’: they are the…

Peru, elections in chaos: a system that does not work

Emanuele Pinelli 15/04/2026 No Comments

A jammed election machine If one thought that perhaps almost no worse could be done than last year’s presidential elections in Honduras – which ended only after weeks of uncertainty…

Lessons from Ukraine. Interview with Tetiana Korotka

Emanuele Pinelli 14/04/2026 No Comments

Lessons are not given, they are taken, said Cesare Pavese. And even this beginning of 2026 is offering the citizens of the West first and foremost, but of the world…

Why the chimpanzee war in Uganda excites the web so much

Emanuele Pinelli 14/04/2026 No Comments

In Uganda, in Kibale National Park, lives the largest population of chimpanzees in the world. It has about 200 specimens and is named after Ngogo, the nearest location inhabited by…

St Thomas the European and the wounds of those who want to rise again

Emanuele Pinelli 12/04/2026 No Comments

This year, the calendar has handed us a coincidence that is worth more than many ecumenical speeches. For Catholics, 12 April is Mercy Sunday, that is, the Second Sunday of…

Ukraine, the line that defends Europe. The Hungarian case

Emanuele Pinelli 11/04/2026 No Comments

There is a hard-to-die misunderstanding that still runs through part of Italian public opinion and political forces: the idea that the war in Ukraine is a ‘distant’, circumscribed, negotiable conflict…

Russian gas, seaborne LNG and the nonsense of propaganda

Emanuele Pinelli 08/04/2026 No Comments

In some social bubbles, there is a lot of talk about energy sovereignty, unaffordable bills and the alleged ‘high price’ of American gas (LNG). But before going into the merits…

What remains, for now, of Trump’s operation against Iran

Emanuele Pinelli 08/04/2026 No Comments

Within hours of Donald Trump’s announcement of the truce, the question running through chancelleries, markets and public opinion is one: what has really been achieved by the blitzkrieg against Iran?…

NATO is not an ATM. What Trump doesn’t say (and what suits the US)

Emanuele Pinelli 07/04/2026 No Comments

There is an image that returns obsessively in Donald Trump’s political narrative: that of a generous, almost naive America footing the bill for Western security while its European allies, described…

Sánchez, Milei and rents: a practical guide on how to destroy or save a market

Emanuele Pinelli 07/04/2026 No Comments

There is something almost mystical about the way Pedro Sánchez’s government deals with the economy. It is that unshakeable faith in the idea that reality is optional and that a…

Hormuz crisis is choking the Philippines

Emanuele Pinelli 07/04/2026 No Comments

These days, there is a lot of news about the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital passage for the world and, indirectly, for the Pacific as well. Countries…

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Artemis II and that astronaut passion for Christian messages

Emanuele Pinelli 06/04/2026 No Comments

At dawn on Easter Day, the Artemis II spacecraft was more than 330,000 km away from our home planet. It was just then leaving the zone where satellite links are…

Little Big Horn and the Hormuz Strait

Emanuele Pinelli 31/03/2026 No Comments

Or: how to trade complexity for detail and pay the price There is something deeply human – and therefore dangerous – in the temptation to simplify what is not. History,…

Xi Jinping tries to divide Taiwan and test Trump

Emanuele Pinelli 31/03/2026 No Comments

In the ‘game’ of perceptions and diplomacy, sometimes a visit is worth more than a treaty. It is in this context that Beijing’s invitation to the leader of the Kuomintang,…

Hormuz, aluminium and the power death of Europe: in the dark no one notices if you are green

Emanuele Pinelli 31/03/2026 No Comments

There is something poetic about the way Europe deals with crises: with the same agility as an ocean liner attempting to make a U-turn in a drainage channel. As the…

Europe bans even voluntary chat control. The Right wanted to keep it

Emanuele Pinelli 27/03/2026 No Comments

On 26 March 2026, the European Parliament rejected the extension of the provisional rules on ‘chat control’, the measure that would have allowed the indiscriminate scanning of private messages for…

Slavery reparations: Europe should be entitled to at least as much as Africa

Emanuele Pinelli 26/03/2026 No Comments

Yesterday, the UN assembly passed a (symbolic and non-binding) resolution on “declaring the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity”The…

The smartphone is the opium of the people. And Putin is taking it away from the Russians

Emanuele Pinelli 23/03/2026 No Comments

For weeks, Moscow has been waking up without internet. Phones have become useless objects: websites are inaccessible, messages don’t go through, and payments are blocked. In February 2026, Putin signed…

Russia, February-March 2026: repression, digital censorship and social crisis

Emanuele Pinelli 20/03/2026 No Comments

Between February and March 2026, Russia showed four internal trend lines particularly clearly: the tightening of digital control, the increasingly widespread repression of dissent, social deterioration in the peripheries, and…

The variable command alliance: Trump, Iran and the short memory on NATO

Emanuele Pinelli 16/03/2026 No Comments

The war between the United States (and Israel) and Iran has in recent weeks become an emblematic case not only of geopolitical tension, but also of contradictory political communication. In…

French municipal elections: towards a second round with high tension

Emanuele Pinelli 16/03/2026 No Comments

The first round of the French municipal elections, the last major test before the 2027 presidential election, confirmed the entrenchment of the Rassemblement National (RN) and the advancement of Jean-Luc…

The Islamist temptation of the new left: when progressivism hates freedom

Emanuele Pinelli 11/03/2026 No Comments

In recent years, a section of the European youth left has embarked on an ideological path that deserves more serious critical reflection than is often the case in public debate.…

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Long live Europe when “monitors carefully and with increasing concern”

Emanuele Pinelli 06/03/2026 No Comments

By now it has become a joke – or, as they say nowadays, a meme. As soon as events heat somewhere in the world, the reaction of European politicians is…

The Strait of Hormuz closes. Chronicle of a global cardiac arrest

Emanuele Pinelli 03/03/2026 No Comments

If oil and gas are the blood running through the veins of global industry, heating and transport, the Strait of Hormuz is its jugular vein.In just 33 kilometres wide, a…

Spain: Populars and Vox strike regional deals against a fragile government

Emanuele Pinelli 03/03/2026 No Comments

Spanish politics is in suspense. On the one hand, a central government that appears worn down by crises and controversies; on the other, an opposition that is changing skin, especially…

The Europe of our century will stem from the Balkans. The demise of the Monnet method

Emanuele Pinelli 03/03/2026 No Comments

In recent weeks, Brussels has set the enlargement machine in motion again. Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos pointed to Montenegro as the most advanced candidate, speaking of a closed Accession Treaty…

Will Musk’s stars look down?

Emanuele Pinelli 28/02/2026 No Comments

It is nothing new that war, in parallel with battlefields, moves into the ethereal realm of waves and satellites. And it is certainly not the first time that technological innovation…

Tiktok as drugs. Brussels finally makes its move

Emanuele Pinelli 27/02/2026 No Comments

The turning point may be historic for the regulation of digital platforms in Europe: the Commission has launched an investigation into TikTok, accused of being ‘addictive by design’ . The…

Italy-Philippines, a strategic cooperation for security in the Indo-Pacific

Emanuele Pinelli 27/02/2026 No Comments

In a passage marked by tensions in the South China Sea and a Europe looking increasingly eastwards, the defence cooperation agreement between Rome and Manila has slipped almost into the…

Trump tries again with tariffs: the output looks like a movie about multiverse

Emanuele Pinelli 25/02/2026 No Comments

If international trade law were a Hollywood script, the current US administration would have already won the Oscar for best science fiction film. Not content with seeing the Supreme Court…

SCOTUS ruling on Trump’s tariffs is a masterclass in common sense, politics and history

Emanuele Pinelli 24/02/2026 No Comments

“We decide whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) authorizes the President to impose tariffs.” With these candid and direct words, the Supreme Court’s ruling last Friday declared illegal…

The paradox of the ‘analog natives’: why Italy’s GenZ is struggling in the Europe of AI

Emanuele Pinelli 23/02/2026 No Comments

For years, we lulled the idea that Generation Z, born in the late 1990s and early 2010s, was inherently prepared for the technological revolution. We called its members ‘digital natives’,…

Alas, the real fall that changed history was that of Saddam’s statue

Emanuele Pinelli 20/02/2026 No Comments

My generation grew up being told by older ones that the turning point in recent history was the fall of the Berlin Wall. From their point of view, it was…

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Sudan in the grip of the new Global Feudalism

Emanuele Pinelli 30/01/2026 No Comments

The war in Sudan is not a civil war; it is an ontological mutation of war. To define the Khartoum massacre as a fratricidal clash for power is to use…

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Russia, January 2026: the stranglehold of repression and the slits of light

Emanuele Pinelli 28/01/2026 No Comments

The first structural datum, the one that has been coming back like a fixed buzz behind every news item in recent days, is the quantitative and qualitative increase in repression:…

The US seize Tiktok, Europe does not. First proof that Zelensky is right

Emanuele Pinelli 24/01/2026 No Comments

On 21 January 2026, the World Economic Forum in Davos witnessed a memorable speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who launched a harsh attack on Europe, accusing it of hypocrisy.…

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Safety or independence? For Greenland and Moldova, an old dilemma is back

Emanuele Pinelli 22/01/2026 No Comments

A week ago, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the Prime Minister of Greenland (which has had its own parliament and government for 47 years, while remaining linked to Denmark as ‘Crown Territory’) uttered…

Where comes from China’s increasingly unmanageable trade surplus

Emanuele Pinelli 17/01/2026 No Comments

In recent times, China’s trade surplus has attracted a lot of media attention, especially when it crossed the symbolic $1 trillion threshold. This figure, in itself, has no particular economic…

Towards the ’28th Regime’, a single passport for European companies

Emanuele Pinelli 14/01/2026 No Comments

While the single market for goods is an established reality, that for businesses remains a fragmented patchwork. Today, a start-up that is born in Milan and wants to expand in…

From ‘America First’ to ‘America Fist’: Trump, the return of strength and the rediscovery of an ancient world

Emanuele Pinelli 14/01/2026 No Comments

Rather than inaugurating an entirely new world order, Donald Trump seems to be reviving an ancient geopolitical paradigm: one in which force prevails over law, imposition over cooperation, and military…

In Iran we are being slaughtered. Step up before it is too late

Emanuele Pinelli 13/01/2026 No Comments

Dear Reader, I am writing to bring you some essential facts about what is happening in Iran today: facts that, unfortunately, many in the West still do not see or…

From aluminium to zinc, all the Mercosur resources our companies need

Emanuele Pinelli 13/01/2026 No Comments

Following the debate on the Mercosur trade agreement in recent weeks was like going back and forth from an alien planet. Not only the hubbub on social media, but also…

Uprising in Iran: denied freedoms, ideological silences and the hypocrisy of some leftists

Emanuele Pinelli 10/01/2026 No Comments

Something is moving in Iran. Beneath the repressive surface of the ayatollahs’ regime, movements of popular rebellion are once again emerging with force. These are no longer isolated episodes, but…

Russians abroad finally have an assembly to run for

Emanuele Pinelli 10/01/2026 No Comments

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is an intergovernmental organisation that brings together the parliamentary delegations of the Council of Europe member states. The Council of Europe…

Please, keep on underestimating Europe and saying it is weak

Emanuele Pinelli 08/01/2026 No Comments

The refrain of 2025, since Trump and the MAGA movement took control of the White House, has been that Europe is irrelevant, that Europe is doomed, that Europe is too…

Botswana between Moscow and Washington: the diamond crisis tests institutions

Emanuele Pinelli 07/01/2026 No Comments

Botswana is often told as a positive story within the African continent. Relatively stable democracy, sustained growth for decades, investment in education and infrastructure. Above all, the image of a…

Saving both the environment and heavy industry: CBAM’s mission impossible

Emanuele Pinelli 03/01/2026 No Comments

On January 1st, without any major announcements, the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism came into effect.An instrument that, for better or worse, could have an even more disruptive impact…

The embers of faith. The Russian Church between obedience and conscience

Emanuele Pinelli 02/01/2026 No Comments

In Russia, silence is never just silence. Under the crust of official speeches and patriotic liturgies, a living embers continues to smoulder: the faith that does not surrender to the…

The fake drones over Putin’s villa and ‘95% peace’: why truth is the first victim of propaganda

Emanuele Pinelli 01/01/2026 No Comments

In the aftermath of the meeting at Mar-a-Lago between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, Moscow reopened the narrative front by accusing Ukraine of attempting a drone attack against President Vladimir…

Two visions of the New Year: speeches by the presidents of China and Taiwan

Emanuele Pinelli 01/01/2026 No Comments

In the symbolic passage between a year that closes and one that opens, the words of the leaders of China and Taiwan have turned the spotlight on one of the…

Iran: protests and cracks in the regime, but the end is still open

Emanuele Pinelli 31/12/2025 No Comments

The protests that have broken out in Iran in recent days are not an isolated incident. Starting from the electronics bazaar in Tehran, they quickly spread to other bazaars in…

The fairy tale of the Messina bridge against the reality of the Genoa dam

Emanuele Pinelli 31/12/2025 No Comments

Italy, a natural logistics platform in the heart of the Mediterranean, today experiences an administrative paradox that is reflected in the management of its main ports of call. If the…

Against everything and everyone, Ukraine has overcome 2025. Here is how

Emanuele Pinelli 29/12/2025 No Comments

Ukraine has accustomed us to surprises. In 2022, when Russia simultaneously invaded nine of its regions, no one would have bet that it would survive: in our imagination, Russia was…

The dawn of a new Horn of Africa: Israel recognises Somaliland

Emanuele Pinelli 27/12/2025 No Comments

At a time when the balance of power in the Horn of Africa and the wider Mediterranean seems to be shifting rapidly, Israel’s decision to officially recognise Somaliland as an…

A decade assessing the Euro–Gulf relationship

Emanuele Pinelli 27/12/2025 No Comments

When the Euro Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) was founded in Rome in October 2015, most Europeans still saw the Arabian Peninsula mainly through oil, security and human-rights controversies. EGIC’s wager…

Chile has chosen: Jose Antonio Kast will be the new president

Emanuele Pinelli 26/12/2025 No Comments

Chile turned the page without tears, without noise, with broad participation and a clear result. In a context such as Latin America, marked by unrest in the past in the…

The true story of Santa Claus

Emanuele Pinelli 24/12/2025 No Comments

“How to tell your child the truth about Santa?”Among the countless daily trifles that our society has turned into serious psychological problems, there is also this one.New York Times, CNN,…

Minimum wage? Maximum illusion. Italy cannot grant 9 euros/hour by decree

Emanuele Pinelli 21/12/2025 No Comments

The debate on the legal minimum wage in Italy seems to be stuck on a symbolic figure: 9 euros per hour. But if we shift our gaze from the ‘likes’…

The peace being negotiated for Ukraine is neither just nor lasting

Emanuele Pinelli 19/12/2025 No Comments

Peace talks for the conflict in Ukraine are a central issue for the European Union, which is concerned about promoting its values of sovereignty, democracy and international cooperation. However, the…

EU common debt for Ukraine: the right choice in the wrong way

Emanuele Pinelli 19/12/2025 No Comments

Let us start with the facts. On 18 December 2025, at the European Council, the EU decided to guarantee Ukraine a loan of up to EUR 90 billion for the…

From the Sign to the “how”: why liberal humanism must put back together the world

Emanuele Pinelli 19/12/2025 No Comments

There is a very long history, older than philosophy and even writing, that we should listen to again today if we want to talk seriously about humanism and liberalism. It…

Mercosur trade agreement: now or never

Emanuele Pinelli 16/12/2025 No Comments

‘If she makes it through the night, she’s safe’: how many times have we heard that from doctors in the movies?Well, for Europe, the night to overcome will be that…

Honduras on the brink: contested elections and polarisation in the heart of the Americas

Emanuele Pinelli 15/12/2025 No Comments

One of the most complex and protracted presidential elections in its recent history is unfolding in Honduras. In a climate of high internal political tension, with accusations of fraud, delays…

Italexit: the erotic dream of sovereignty (and the nightmare in lire we escaped)

Emanuele Pinelli 13/12/2025 No Comments

Once upon a time, in a past that seems prehistoric but is actually the day before yesterday, there was a political class that waved flags and promised a return to…

Faith and reason: the candle of eve and the light of conscience

Emanuele Pinelli 13/12/2025 No Comments

As the Catholic Jubilee year draws to a close, the European consciousness is once again being called to question the relationship between tradition and progress, where the former is usually…

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Does religion make happiness? Interview with Leonardo Becchetti, professor of Economics

Emanuele Pinelli 11/12/2025 No Comments

Leonardo Becchetti is one of the most lively personalities in the Italian economic debate. Trained at the London School of Economics, he has conducted studies on sustainability and energy communities,…

Meloni, Zelensky and the betrayal of Ukraine

Emanuele Pinelli 10/12/2025 No Comments

The meeting of Starmer, Merz and Macron with Zelensky on December 8th and the reaffirmed solidarity of the ‘willing’ with Ukraine provoked the angry reaction of Trump, who again intimated…

Meloni and Trump, the paradox of an alliance that benefits only one

Emanuele Pinelli 09/12/2025 No Comments

With each new statement by Donald Trump, a question grows in Europe, and in Italy in particular: how useful can an American leader who is so unpredictable, aggressive and often…

Utility bills are really high. But why?

Emanuele Pinelli 06/12/2025 No Comments

It has become the unwelcome guest at the end of every month, a postcard that arrives punctually to threaten the family budget: the utility bill. In recent years, global energy…

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Threats to think tank Parabellum: Russia wants to silence us at home

Emanuele Pinelli 05/12/2025 No Comments

Mirko Campochiari is one of Italy’s most followed and trustworthy military bloggers. Known online as ‘Parabellum‘, he has built a solid reputation thanks to his constant work of technical-military analysis…

Frozen Russian assets: Machiavelli would tell us it is time to ‘use the beast’

Emanuele Pinelli 04/12/2025 No Comments

On Thursday, 18 December, the European Council, the body formed by the 27 heads of state or government (along with presidents Costa and Von der Leyen), will have to take…

The Russia which scares the power: songs, flowers, words

Emanuele Pinelli 04/12/2025 No Comments

Some days, Russia seems to swing like a pendulum between memory and the present, between what we were and what we have become. Since 16 February 2024, when I wrote…

On social media Taiwan is coming back to Japan

Emanuele Pinelli 04/12/2025 No Comments

Thousands of Taiwanese citizens a day are choosing to declare their nationality as ‘Taiwan, Japan’ in digital forms, apps and international platforms. It is a silent but powerful gesture that…

The 30 minutes when the social media sorcery was dispelled

Emanuele Pinelli 23/11/2025 No Comments

On Friday 21 November, ‘X’ (Twitter for the elderly) finally introduced a novelty it had been announcing for months: the possibility of seeing from which country each user writing on…

The invisibile frontline: how Moscow is challenging us and how to react

Emanuele Pinelli 20/11/2025 No Comments

In recent days, two seemingly unconnected events tell a unified story: Europe no longer inhabits a peaceful, uncontested continent—but an exposed, contested geopolitic frontier. In the North Sea, the Royal…

Ci risiamo: la francia si sfila dal progetto eurodrone

Here we go again: France quits the Eurodrone program. Will Italy fill the void?

Emanuele Pinelli 17/11/2025 No Comments

France’s recent decision to withdraw from the Eurodrone program is more than just an industrial plot twist: it is the latest chapter in a long history where France, whenever possible,…

The loneliness of AI models, surrounded by texts written by themselves

Emanuele Pinelli 17/11/2025 No Comments

It was a November morning, one of those days when the light in Rome filtered softly through the clouds, as if the city itself hesitated to wake up fully. I…

The European Union saved us from chat control

Emanuele Pinelli 07/11/2025 No Comments

Eventually, even Denmark’s Minister of Justice, the leading advocate for chat control, had to throw in the towel. “The search warrant will not be part of the EU presidency’s new…

tre cose che non ho letto da nessuna parte sulle elezioni locali in USA

Three things I haven’t read anywhere about local elections in the US

Emanuele Pinelli 05/11/2025 No Comments

I offer some thoughts outside the box on the ‘super Tuesday’ election in the US. All this leads me to say what? Nothing more than what I have written, except…

Both the souls of the Democrats are in great shape. Which one will challenge Trump?

Emanuele Pinelli 05/11/2025 No Comments

The first significant local elections since the start of the new Trump administration have redrawn the political map for American Democrats. Virginia and New Jersey are firmly back in the…

The coup against Italian pasta that obviously never happened

Emanuele Pinelli 02/11/2025 No Comments

In the lexicon of international economics, ‘dumping’ is not a tropical disease, but an unfair trade practice. It means selling a product abroad at a lower price than normally charged…

What the polls really say about the Russians and the war

Emanuele Pinelli 31/10/2025 No Comments

When they try to convince me that 146% of Russians would support war by showing polls, I sigh inwardly. Let us remember for a moment that it is not at…

The Latin alphabet is taking over. Even in Asia

Emanuele Pinelli 31/10/2025 No Comments

At the beginning of October, the Organisation of Turkish States – which includes Turkey, Azerbaijan and the Central Asian ‘Stans’ – pledged to adopt a new common alphabet, which takes…

Meloni sails off Ventotene. Fortunately, not all her men follow her

Emanuele Pinelli 26/10/2025 No Comments

There is a paradox hovering over European politics: Italy, the birthplace of the Ventotene Manifesto, and thus the cradle of the idea of a federal and united Europe, is today…

ebbene sì il mondo poteva vivere senza petrolio russo

Yes, the world could live without Russian oil

Emanuele Pinelli 24/10/2025 No Comments

The sanctions that Trump has imposed on the two Russian oil giants, Rosneft and Lukoil, are causing much discussion.And, as usual, the comments making the most noise are the most…

Seven new Catholic saints are showing us history from another point of view

Emanuele Pinelli 21/10/2025 No Comments

Ever since the book of Revelation, the saints have been described as ‘an immense crowd that no one could count, coming from all nations, tribes, peoples and languages’.But rarely has…

There is no Gaza, but a mosaic of clans. Let’s first disarm the rhetoric

Emanuele Pinelli 17/10/2025 No Comments

As Isaia Urbani explains well in his recent article, there is no single people behind the name Gaza, but a mosaic of clans, extended families and tribal confederations. Those who…

IA nuovo miracolo economico o bolla pronta a esplodere

AI: a new economic miracle or a bubble ready to burst?

Emanuele Pinelli 17/10/2025 No Comments

In less than three years, ChatGPT has grown from less than one million to around 800 million weekly active users, a figure that equates to 10% of the global online…

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Hamas and the new communication frame of terrorism

Emanuele Pinelli 16/10/2025 No Comments

From the apocalyptic propaganda of the early 2000s to the communicative sophistication of the digital age, terrorism has always invested in narrative. But it was with Hamas that a profound…

Why the Russians remain silent

Emanuele Pinelli 15/10/2025 No Comments

I am often asked: ‘But do the Russians really not know and understand what the Russian army is doing in Ukraine?’ Well, my answer is: they do know and they…

Netherlands retakes Nexperia from the Chinese: a first stop to the ‘Theft of the Millennium’

Emanuele Pinelli 15/10/2025 No Comments

An unstoppable rise For twenty years, the world has witnessed, to its amazement and dismay, the economic rise of China. A rise that has few equals in modern history: today,…

Il problema della sinistra con Auschwitz

The left’s problem with Auschwitz is not what Roccella says

Emanuele Pinelli 13/10/2025 No Comments

That there is a new flare-up of hatred against Jews in Italy, causing constant attacks and forcing many of them to hide the visible signs of their identity, is a…

Italy and pensions: the truth hurts, but hiding it hurts more

Emanuele Pinelli 11/10/2025 No Comments

As every year, between the end of August and the beginning of September, the topic of pensions punctually returns to the fore. Why? Simple: it is the classic flag to…

What lies ahead after the Sharm el-Sheikh agreements

Emanuele Pinelli 09/10/2025 No Comments

A ‘historic’ agreement that ‘establishes a ceasefire and an end to the war in Gaza after two years of suffering and pain’. These are the words of Egyptian President al-Sisi.…

‘Segre cannot speak about genocide’. Goodbye, identity politics

Emanuele Pinelli 08/10/2025 No Comments

An almost paradoxical aspect of the argument Francesca Albanese spends on Liliana Segre, sealed by a delightful reference to the ‘stumbling blocks’ of logic, is the contradiction of an axiom…

Il vero crimine è stato costruire i gasdotti Nord Stream

The true crime was building the Nord Stream pipelines, not destroying them

Emanuele Pinelli 08/10/2025 No Comments

The recent refusal of Poland to extradite a Ukrainian citizen suspected of involvement in the Nord Stream submarine pipeline explosions reopens a complex chapter in European energy geopolitics. Prime Minister…

sul convoglio italiano sfiorato dai missili russi

On the train grazed by Russian missiles. The tale of an Italian volunteer

Emanuele Pinelli 06/10/2025 No Comments

Antonio, how did you feel when the Lviv station was bombed moments after your train had passed there? I was actually sleeping, in the train bunk, and I was woken…

A league of Italian charities is doing the job of still unestablished EU Civic Corps

Emanuele Pinelli 02/10/2025 No Comments

We just crossed the border between Poland and Ukraine. Our humanitarian mission will shortly begin. We are 110 activists from all over Italy, on our way to the eastern regions…

Maia sandu ferma i filorussi usando il pugno di ferro

Maia Sandu crushes the pro-Russians with iron fist. Well done

Emanuele Pinelli 29/09/2025 No Comments

Background Let us cast our memory back to August 2020. In Western Europe, we were dealing with the Covid pandemic. Few of us were watching the news about Belarus, where…

Indonesia takes the stage: breakthrough on Israel and trade deal with the EU

Emanuele Pinelli 25/09/2025 No Comments

Between diplomacy and trade, Prabowo Subianto’s Indonesia has chosen to raise its voice on the global stage. In New York, the president of the world’s most populous Islamic country (which,…

L'Europa ci controllerà le chat con la scusa della pedofilia

Will Europe scan our chats under the guise of child sex abuse?

Emanuele Pinelli 18/09/2025 No Comments

Let us give a straight answer: no.Looking at power balances, it is unlikely that the European Union will approve the controversial regulation against child sexual abuse that would open the…

The dam that disproves everyone

Emanuele Pinelli 18/09/2025 No Comments

There is an African country that has just inaugurated the largest hydroelectric dam on the continent. It is called the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), it has an installed capacity…

Le due imprese familiari italiane che non fanno arrugginire le armi di Putin

Two Italian family-owned businesses are saving Putin’s weapons from rust

Emanuele Pinelli 16/09/2025 No Comments

Trap Aggressor, the investigative project of the Ukrainian think tank StateWatch, uncovered an uncomfortable link between the Italian chemical industry and the Russian military complex. In a recent investigation, the…

Charlie Kirk had to live. But he is not a martyr for freedom

Emanuele Pinelli 12/09/2025 No Comments

The political murder of Charlie Kirk is a dramatic symptom of the hatred and violence that now pervades not only American society, but increasingly also European society. This is an…

milano 14 settembre giornata europea cultura ebraica

Milan, September 14: a new edition of European Day of Jewish Culture

Emanuele Pinelli 12/09/2025 No Comments

On Sunday 14 September 2025, the European Day of Jewish Culture, now in its 26th edition, will return to dozens of Italian and European cities. The initiative, awarded the Medal…

La Battaglia di Vienna 1683 cavalieri polacchi

September 12 1683: the victory over Islam that changed us forever

Emanuele Pinelli 11/09/2025 No Comments

“The infidels sprang up on the slopes with their divisions like storm clouds, covered in a blue metal … it was as if a torrent of black pitch was pouring…

Dress rehearsal of European sovereignty: ASML finances Mistral AI

Emanuele Pinelli 08/09/2025 No Comments

In the world of artificial intelligence, we Europeans have never been on the crest of a wave. But today, thanks to Mistral AI, we finally have something to be proud…

Iran’s psychiatrists in the footsteps of Beccaria

Emanuele Pinelli 07/09/2025 No Comments

This year, the Islamic Republic of Iran has already executed at least 841 of its citizens.Many were political dissidents, arrested during the waves of protest in recent years or accused…

Kallas challenges Europe: does it want to become a geopolitical player?

Emanuele Pinelli 04/09/2025 No Comments

“The earth is shaking under our feet, with ever stronger tremors”. The recent speech of EU High Representative Kaja Kallas at the EUISS 2025 annual conference could be a turning…

More start-ups in Germany than in China. But on industry Beijing is ahead

Emanuele Pinelli 01/09/2025 No Comments

The economic and technological relationship between China and Germany in recent years has been a delicate balance, marked by opportunities for cooperation and at the same time by structural challenges…

Erdogan and Gaza, the morality that in fact does not exist

Emanuele Pinelli 01/09/2025 No Comments

Every time Recep Tayyip Erdogan raises his voice against Israel, the world tends to take him literally. Gaza, ‘humanitarian values’, accusations of genocide: the Turkish president’s rhetoric is bombastic, constructed…

Tiktok worse than alcohol. The addiction that nobody fights

Emanuele Pinelli 31/08/2025 No Comments

Scrolling through TikTok, YouTube’s ‘shorts’ videos or Instagram’s ‘reel’ section can impair our brain functions more than moderate alcohol consumption. As with the latter, of course, it is the dose…

Tulsi Gabbard and the earthquake in American intelligence

Emanuele Pinelli 26/08/2025 No Comments

Tulsi Gabbard, the new Director of US National Intelligence, is at the centre of a momentous transformation. The architecture of US intelligence is changing rapidly. These are not mere administrative…

Ukrainian drones against Russian oil: this time the damage is serious

Emanuele Pinelli 25/08/2025 No Comments

The fire that devastated Novatek‘s terminal in Ust-Luga, on the Baltic, is not just yet another episode in the war chronicle. It is the confirmation of a truth that analysts…

No more relying on the least worst: Italy needs a pro-European and liberal choice

Emanuele Pinelli 23/08/2025 No Comments

For too long Italian politics has been hostage to a sterile bipolarism. “The ‘centre-right’ and ‘centre-left’ face each other without innovating, intent on defending rents of position rather than imagining…

Ukraine, the time of truth. Can Trump impose an ultimatum?

Emanuele Pinelli 18/08/2025 No Comments

August 18 2025: the world watches with apprehension the meeting between US President Donald Trump and European leaders.After the August 15 meeting in Alaska, where Vladimir Putin reiterated his maximalist…

The deal that the West would accept but Putin does not propose

Emanuele Pinelli 13/08/2025 No Comments

Let’s face it: if at Friday’s summit in Alaska the Russian dictator proposed to freeze the Ukrainian front along the current lines and think no more about it, the Americans…

“If they were silent, the stones would cry out”. Voices from the Jubilee of Youth

Emanuele Pinelli 05/08/2025 No Comments

We interviewed young people from three different communities while they were in the large Tor Vergata camp, in the hinterland of Rome, which welcomed over a million pilgrims from 146…

Tariffs: maybe we haven’t ‘lost’, but our diplomatic style no longer works

Emanuele Pinelli 31/07/2025 No Comments

There is an image that sums up the nature of the trade agreement reached in Turnberry between the United States and the European Union: Donald Trump sitting next to Ursula…

Tariffs: when the Byzantines bowed to the Khans (and did well)

Emanuele Pinelli 28/07/2025 No Comments

The Eastern Roman Empire did not survive more than 900 years by a whim of fate.It had its instruction manuals on how to behave in times of danger, born out…

Russia, Ukraine: why some Italians still deny a war which is already “here”

Emanuele Pinelli 24/07/2025 No Comments

The tone of the controversy and disputes surrounding Valery Gergiev’s ‘forbidden’ concert in Caserta and then Alexander Romanovsky’s one in Bologna puts on spotlight two completely different trends. The first…

Russia’s (or, rather, West Korea’s) economic dusk

Emanuele Pinelli 22/07/2025 No Comments

A few days ago, the Ukrainian secret services released alleged emails from Elvira Nabiullina, the governor of Moscow’s Central Bank, giving orders to print 150 billion roubles in three months.…

Journalism vs propaganda: why Maurizio Molinari is under attack

Emanuele Pinelli 18/07/2025 No Comments

Francesca Albanese is back in the news. The UN rapporteur for human rights in the Palestinian Territories has accused Maurizio Molinari, editor-in-chief of La Repubblica, of conducting “biased and irresponsible”…

French AI is starting to get scary. Apple’s offer

Emanuele Pinelli 16/07/2025 No Comments

An old adage goes: ‘Europe invents it, China manufactures it, America profits from it’. And unfortunately, even in the pioneering field of artificial intelligence, it continues to find confirmations. Recently,…

From Conte’s carrot to Meloni’s stick, Italy is being ruled like a fief

Emanuele Pinelli 14/07/2025 No Comments

Three years ago the Draghi cabinet crisis began.The less forgetful Italians remember well how it unfolded. Already for months the Five Stars Movement had been having belly aches over what…

Farewell to Golos, the last window on the Russian vote. The ballot box goes under lock and key

Emanuele Pinelli 12/07/2025 No Comments

In Russia, when a space is closed, it is never walled off quietly. It is made loud, it is humiliated, it is tried. It serves to make it clear that…

Von der Leyen saves the chair, but Europe misses a chance to be clear

Emanuele Pinelli 10/07/2025 No Comments

The no-confidence motion against European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was rejected with 360 votes against, 175 in favour and 18 abstentions. A predictable result, but far from trivial.…

Art for power’s sake: Gergiev and normalised propaganda in Naples region

Emanuele Pinelli 09/07/2025 No Comments

The Reggia di Caserta, one of the most symbolic places of Italian beauty and history, is hosting this summer Un’Estate da RE, a music festival promoted by Campania, the region…

The Catholic rite for Thomas Becket returns to Canterbury. Rediscovery of a hero

Emanuele Pinelli 08/07/2025 No Comments

The notes of the Salve Regina, accompanied by the organ, soared towards the dizzying Gothic arches of Canterbury Cathedral on the evening of 7 July.It is rare to see a…

China finally reveals it: Putin’s is a proxy war

Emanuele Pinelli 04/07/2025 No Comments

Well, who would have thought it: Vladimir ‘the Great’ Putin, the puppet of the Chinese, has decided to throw millions of poor Russians into the meat grinder of an externally…

How did Our Lady’s crown end up inside the European flag?

Emanuele Pinelli 03/07/2025 No Comments

The crown of twelve stars is first described in one of the visions of Revelation, the book that concludes the Christian Bible by revealing what should happen at the end…

Will AI give us back the rationality that social media has taken away from us?

Emanuele Pinelli 26/06/2025 No Comments

Over the past decade, we have learnt to our cost how social media algorithms work: by what instructions their software selects the texts, images and videos to be shown to…

Frodo, Themistocles, Churchill: when good wins almost by accident

Emanuele Pinelli 17/06/2025 No Comments

My father used to tell us The Lord of the Rings in episodes during mountain hikes. It was the summer of my eight or nine years of age when he…

Israel attacks Iran: bad news for Europe, with some relief

Emanuele Pinelli 13/06/2025 No Comments

In the early hours of June 13, 2025, Israeli forces launched a large-scale military operation against targets within Iranian territory. This attack, codenamed “Operation Rising Lion” (in homage to the…

Are Ukrainian young men really being kidnapped in the streets by patrols?

Emanuele Pinelli 10/06/2025 No Comments

In recent months, videos have gone viral on the web of men in military uniforms forcibly seizing Ukrainian civilians, seizing them during a concert or on a dog walk. Other…

A truck won the greatest air battle of the 21st century

Emanuele Pinelli 04/06/2025 No Comments

“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…

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When death is cheap. The drone war and its consequences

Emanuele Pinelli 29/05/2025 No Comments

In the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, between February and March 2022, ordinary citizens spontaneously organised themselves to craft molotov cocktails to be thrown at the columns…

Putin prepares to make his war on the West eternal

Emanuele Pinelli 29/05/2025 No Comments

Russia is reinforcing its military garrisons on its western borders, starting with those with Finland, thus following up on the threats formulated in the aftermath of the Scandinavian country’s decision…

Christ among Cain and Romulus: a work by St. Augustine to understand the new pope

Emanuele Pinelli 22/05/2025 No Comments

In 380, the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as its official religion. Just thirty years later, the old capital, Rome, fell into the hands of the barbarians.The event was a shock.…

The Romanian diaspora votes for a Eurosceptic hooligan. Why?

Emanuele Pinelli 17/05/2025 No Comments

Politics in recent years had accustomed us to a recurring scene: at every showdown between populists and centrists in a former Soviet bloc country, expats abroad generously mobilised to bar…

The ‘pizzino’ sent to Merz and a Germany that insists on showing weakness

Emanuele Pinelli 06/05/2025 No Comments

110 years ago, in the heat of the campaign in favour of entering the war, Benedetto Croce was forced to write elegant articles in which he tried to explain that…

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