Author: Emanuele Pinelli

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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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‘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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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“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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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”…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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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