Piercamillo Falasca, Autore presso L'Europeista

A clear message from the conclave: it is still time for multilateralism

Piercamillo Falasca 09/05/2025 No Comments

At a time when diplomacy is faltering, the Church reminds (and demonstrates) the international community that a compromise that is not downward is still possible. May 2025. It took less…

Ukraine is Europe: chronicle of our trip to Kyiv

Piercamillo Falasca 09/05/2025 No Comments

Ukraine is Europe, and Europe is Ukraine: this phrase is not understood in its true clarity until one crosses the border by train. Our border was Poland: from the station…

The Empire and the City of God, the Augustinian Pope in the Wolf’s Lair

Piercamillo Falasca 09/05/2025 No Comments

“Peace be with you“. With these words, Leo XIV faced the world. He is American, he was a missionary in Peru and he is an Augustinian. The latter is not…

Leo XIV, a Pope for peace. But will it also be just?

Piercamillo Falasca 09/05/2025 No Comments

Between Ukraine, Gaza, BRICS and African instability, the Vatican chooses a balancing figure. With what global posture?The election of Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost, is a thoughtful move in…

How the UAE is becoming a key player in global relations

Piercamillo Falasca 07/05/2025 No Comments

In a world marked by the breakdown of the post-Cold War international order and the growing crisis of multilateralism, new players are emerging to fill the gaps left by the…

On 9 May we will be in Kyiv, with Europa Radicale and Davide Cucciati

Piercamillo Falasca 07/05/2025 No Comments

Next 9 May, Europe Day, there will be a historic first. In Kyiv, in the heart of a wounded but indomitable capital, the first demonstration of European citizens in support…

Space, the Achilles heel of European strategic autonomy

Piercamillo Falasca 06/05/2025 No Comments

In the middle of the Arctic night, on 30 March last, a European rocket briefly streaked across the sky in Andøya, Norway. It was to be the first all-European orbital…

Trump makes Labour win in Australia

Piercamillo Falasca 05/05/2025 No Comments

Historic success for Anthony Albanese: reconfirmed with a large majority. Conservatives at an all-time low. The geography of the progressive consensus changes, also internationally. The Australian Labor Party achieved a…

Romania, the ultra-right wins with Russian support

Piercamillo Falasca 05/05/2025 No Comments

The first round in Romania confirmed the polls: the candidate of the ultra-right George Simion, representative of the Eurosceptic nationalist party AUR, won the first round of the elections, and…

India has awakened as a power: implications for Europe

Piercamillo Falasca 03/05/2025 No Comments

India changing the world: a new strategic challenge for Europe In the last ten years, India has made an extraordinary qualitative leap, transforming itself from the ‘great promise’ of South…

Not only Tagle: why the Philippines is increasingly strategic

Piercamillo Falasca 02/05/2025 No Comments

The world’s – and analysts’ – attention towards the Philippines these weeks is not only focused on the possibility of Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle becoming pope, but also on the…

Rare earths agreement: the real master of the deal is Zelensky

Piercamillo Falasca 01/05/2025 No Comments

Forget Trump the negotiator: the new agreement signed between the US and Ukraine on rare earths represents a Zelensky negotiating masterpiece. Born out of Trump’s attempt to reformulate global balances…

The redemption of the Centre: the lesson of Starmer, Merz and Carney to Italian liberals

Piercamillo Falasca 30/04/2025 No Comments

At a time when politics is dominated by extremism and shouting, the centre once again becomes a concrete option. Not as a weak compromise, but as an autonomous project. The…

Italy belongs to those who love it: citizenship, identity and a right wing that no longer exists

Piercamillo Falasca 30/04/2025 No Comments

In 2010, now fifteen years ago, the then President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies Gianfranco Fini proposed that the children of immigrants could apply for citizenship at the end…

The parade of shame and the truce of lies: this will be 9 May in Moscow

Piercamillo Falasca 29/04/2025 No Comments

These days, Vladimir Putin proclaimed a ceasefire to coincide with the Victory Parade on 9 May. A moment of celebration and remembrance for the Russian people, recalling the defeat of…

EXCLUSIVE – Interview with Salomé Zurabishvili, legitimate president of Georgia

Piercamillo Falasca 29/04/2025 No Comments

‘For centuries we have been the front line of Europe’ The right to a European future, the stolen elections, the 150 consecutive days of protests. Salomé Zurabishvili, whom almost every…

What is happening between India and Pakistan? We explain Asia’s most dangerous rivalry

Piercamillo Falasca 28/04/2025 No Comments

The 22 April 2025 terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Indian Kashmir, reignited Asia’s most explosive rivalry. Twenty-six tourists killed in cold blood; an area that, with 3.5 million visitors in 2024,…

The Atlantic is worth a mass: Ursula’s advance play to negotiate with Trump

Piercamillo Falasca 28/04/2025 No Comments

With Europe under pressure on tariffs, Ukraine and defence, the European Commission relies on direct talks and active diplomacy to avoid new rifts with Washington. A few jokes, a fleeting…

25 April: ideology has eaten away at memory and the square has become a courtroom

Piercamillo Falasca 26/04/2025 No Comments

25 April, the anniversary of the Liberation from Nazi-Fascism, has always been a symbolic and founding anniversary of the Italian Republic. But what happened this year in various cities –…

25 April is not a sober feast, but neither is it a feast of peace

Piercamillo Falasca 25/04/2025 No Comments

Every year, like an automatic reflex, there is the usual partisan polemic about 25 April. This time the trigger was the government’s call for ‘sobriety’ in celebrating it, given the…

The peace proposal is Trump’s surrender: today Ukraine’s security is only a European affair

Piercamillo Falasca 23/04/2025 No Comments

In the last few hours, a draft US proposal for peace in Ukraine has been leaked that, if confirmed, would represent a turning point – and not a positive one.…

From geopolitics to telemarketing, Meloni’s list of achievements in America

Piercamillo Falasca 21/04/2025 No Comments

Watching the images from the White House, with journalists in mystical ecstasy and pundits in a trance, all that was missing was the Rocky soundtrack and a tricolour waving behind…

Meloni at Trump’s: hugs and kisses, but zero results

Piercamillo Falasca 18/04/2025 No Comments

Yesterday’s meeting at the White House was objectively difficult for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. It could not irritate the host, nor break a political friendship cemented by years of ideological…

Precautionary measures and the rule of law: a challenge for Italian and European justice

Piercamillo Falasca 18/04/2025 No Comments

The debate on criminal proceedings and precautionary measures in Italy does not only concern practitioners or our national legal system. In fact, it is part of a broader reflection on…

The Portuguese Factor: rethinking Europe’s global future from the edge of the Atlantic

Piercamillo Falasca 18/04/2025 No Comments

In the wake of the United States President’s decision to impose universal tariffs – even in the land of even in the land of penguins – the president of the…

The century of great powers opens: Minister Crosetto’s geopolitical vision

Piercamillo Falasca 16/04/2025 No Comments

Minister Crosetto, interviewed by Francesco Giorgino during the programme XXI Secolo on Rai 1, outlined the Italian defence strategy for the near future. The Century of the Great Powers The…

What future for Gaza? At Sapienza, the voice of a dissident and the call for an alternative to Hamas

Piercamillo Falasca 16/04/2025 No Comments

On Tuesday 15 April, in a lecture hall at Rome’s Sapienza University, the event “Which future for Gaza?”, co-organised by L’Europeista, took place. A moment of confrontation of extraordinary importance,…

Sumy, bombing a military parade is still a war crime

Piercamillo Falasca 15/04/2025 No Comments

On 13 April 2025, a Russian missile attack hit the centre of the Ukrainian city of Sumy, killing at least 34 people, including two children, and injuring over a hundred…

The Sumy massacre: Trump washes Putin’s blood on his hands

Piercamillo Falasca 14/04/2025 No Comments

The Russian attack in Sumy, a Ukrainian town near the Russian border, is one of the most serious massacres in the current phase of the war. Two ballistic missiles with…

Europe as a nation, the challenge of Islam and the identity of us Athenians: our dialogue with Gianfranco Fini

Piercamillo Falasca 14/04/2025 No Comments

When we invited Gianfranco Fini to speak at our ‘Europe Now’ conference , we knew it would not be just any old meeting. Not only for the political prominence of…

Make Insider Traders Great Again?

Piercamillo Falasca 11/04/2025 No Comments

Two days ago, minutes before the markets went crazy over Donald Trump’s announcement of a suspension of trade tariffs, something strange happened in the options world. Something that, according to…

Kill the GDPR? Wouldn’t be a bad idea

Piercamillo Falasca 11/04/2025 No Comments

After seven years of experiments, illusions and regulatory rigidity, Brussels finally seems ready to recognise what many in the European technology sector have long argued: the GDPR, in its current…

Europe on the Baltic, the historical border between freedom and oppression

Piercamillo Falasca 10/04/2025 No Comments

Last summer I took a trip to the Baltic with my wife. That cold, shallow, salty sea, which recently became a battlefield for the Russian hybrid war, bathes an area…

Novus Chaos Seclorum: Trump Doctrine’s correct assumptions and insane outcomes

Piercamillo Falasca 08/04/2025 No Comments

Everything has been said, read and heard, in just a few days, on the subject of duties. They talked about it on the news and the taxi driver spoke about…

Trump’s special economic operation and the ostriches of the post-West

Piercamillo Falasca 08/04/2025 No Comments

Despite the fact that the chronicle daily disproves both the anti-apocalyptic confidence of the relativists and normalisers of the Maga phenomenon and the enthusiasm of the apostles and apologists of…

Completing the internal market: the answer to Trumpian tariffs

Piercamillo Falasca 04/04/2025 No Comments

In an era marked by the return of barriers, tariffs and protectionism, the strongest and most pragmatic response the European Union can offer the world is to finally complete its…

Turkey vs Turkey, or Ataturk vs Erdogan

Piercamillo Falasca 02/04/2025 No Comments

In the silence of the Western chancelleries, Turkey is in turmoil, and the country’s democratic hold is hanging by a thread. The arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu and the Gen Z…

The fasciocommunism of Trump and Putin: the new totalitarianism that pleases too many

Piercamillo Falasca 01/04/2025 No Comments

That the cheerful Trump-Vance-Musk triangle is doing everything in its power to honour the ‘glories’ of the totalitarianisms that bloodied and darkened Western Europe in the first half of the…

Why we ask Meloni not to recognise the current Georgian government

Piercamillo Falasca 31/03/2025 No Comments

Georgia is experiencing a particularly critical period in its political history, marked by an increasing erosion of its democratic institutions under the rule of the Georgian Dream party. Since the…

Not only Greenland: the game for the Arctic has just begun

Piercamillo Falasca 30/03/2025 No Comments

There is a new geopolitical fault line running through the world, and it passes through the Arctic ice. Once a remote and relatively peaceful region, it has now become the…

Europe of reversed Don Quixotes

Piercamillo Falasca 28/03/2025 No Comments

In Cervantes’ famous novel, Don Quixote was an impoverished little nobleman who, influenced by too much reading, claimed to live as if he had been a knight of ancient times.…

Before invading Taiwan, Beijing is invading its social space

Piercamillo Falasca 27/03/2025 No Comments

In recent years, Beijing’s strategy to reinforce its narrative on the Taiwan issue has taken new and worrying forms. While military activity in the South China Sea and the Taiwan…

Trump and Greenland: the end of the world as we know it

Piercamillo Falasca 27/03/2025 No Comments

A few months ago on these pages and then in this podcast by L’Europeista Piercamillo Falasca had explained very well why the future of the planet passes through Greenland and…

Armenia on its way to the EU, between young people’s dreams and Moscow’s deafening silence

Piercamillo Falasca 26/03/2025 No Comments

Armenia has taken a decisive step towards a possible entry into the European Union. With 64 votes in favour and 7 against, parliament passed a law officially starting the accession…

Open letter to Donald Trump: ‘We are not parasites, we are living memory’

Piercamillo Falasca 26/03/2025 No Comments

From this old continent, tired but still capable of dreaming, I write to you, Mr Trump. I write them as a European, as a son of a land that has…

Designated Fanatics, world security in the hands of ultras

Piercamillo Falasca 25/03/2025 No Comments

If someone had proposed this story for a Netflix series on geopolitics, it would probably have been rejected at the script stage: too absurd, too improbable, too far from any…

EU on the hunt for US talent, will it work?

Piercamillo Falasca 25/03/2025 No Comments

The European Union is preparing to launch an offensive to attract researchers from the United States in response to recent cuts in research funding by the US government. Twelve European…

Returning Beijing

Piercamillo Falasca 24/03/2025 No Comments

China was my first enemy. The best. The most hidden. Her war is not conventional, it is not with bombs, guns, tanks, drones or martyrs of Islam. Or rather, it…

Turkey’s No to EU membership in Sarkozy’s vision

Piercamillo Falasca 20/03/2025 No Comments

The arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, Erdogan’s main opponent, raises the age-old question of Turkey in Europe and the funding it receives. In his autobiographical book ‘Le temps des…

Let the dream not remain a dream. Let us make Europe real

Piercamillo Falasca 20/03/2025 No Comments

The best response to Giorgia Meloni ‘s blunders on the Ventotene Manifesto was undoubtedly given by Roberto Benigni last night on Rai1. This is not why we must abandon ourselves…

Europe be the voice Trump tries to silence

Piercamillo Falasca 19/03/2025 No Comments

Donald Trump’s recent decision to freeze funding to key media outlets to counter Russian and Chinese information offensives, including Radio Free Asia (RFA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and other…

Mario Draghi’s words to the Italian Parliament

Piercamillo Falasca 18/03/2025 No Comments

When he speaks, Mario Draghi is never banal; many times he shows the way, others he is an unheard prophet, certainly never insignificant. That is why his speech today at…

Research and innovation are the only way to save the planet

Piercamillo Falasca 18/03/2025 No Comments

Climate change is an increasingly less debated and central issue in the public debate, despite the fact that it is an issue of enormous relevance for the future of the…

Uber for shared drinking

Piercamillo Falasca 14/03/2025 No Comments

Three months after the entry into force of the new Highway Code, the Italian catering sector is experiencing a dramatic moment, with an impressive drop in the consumption of alcoholic…

Only a European force can guarantee peace in Ukraine: the rest is surrender or war

Piercamillo Falasca 13/03/2025 No Comments

According to Reuters, Russia has submitted to the US a list of conditions for an agreement that, in effect, creates the demands made prior to the 2022 invasion, with the…

Vienna teaches: talking about compromise is not a dirty word

Piercamillo Falasca 12/03/2025 No Comments

Is it still news that, with the collapse of support for moderate parties, the wave of populism – fuelled by the distorted use of free speech on social media –…

Georgescu violated election rules, the rest is hybrid warfare by Moscow

Piercamillo Falasca 12/03/2025 No Comments

The decision of the Central Electoral Office on the exclusion of Călin Georgescu‘s Romanian presidential candidature, like the one – the latter presupposed – of the Constitutional Court of Bucharest…

Elly and the PD at the crossroads: eschimo party or European party

Piercamillo Falasca 11/03/2025 No Comments

Dear Democratic Party, what does it mean to be ‘in favour of common defence and against national rearmament’? Does a common defence mechanism exist today that can be immediately funded…

1936-2025: the Nazi invasion of the Rhineland rhymes with today’s Europe

Piercamillo Falasca 10/03/2025 No Comments

On 7 March 1936, eighty-nine years ago, Nazi Germany sent twenty thousand soldiers into the Rhineland, openly violating the Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Locarno. It was a…

In Romania, European democracy is being defended against Putin’s mafia

Piercamillo Falasca 10/03/2025 No Comments

The political crisis in Romania has raised crucial questions about the defence of democracy in the face of internal and external threats. The case of Călin Georgescu, an ultranationalist and…

The shield for democracy: Azione’s proposal to avoid Georgescu cases

Piercamillo Falasca 09/03/2025 No Comments

Today’s decision by the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) to exclude Călin Georgescu from the presidential competition on 4 May 2025 is an act of responsibility and a strong signal to…

Between duties and chips, Trump puts Taiwan in danger

Piercamillo Falasca 07/03/2025 No Comments

Like the lightning bolt that recently struck the Taipei 101, Taiwan’s tallest skyscraper, so the Trump storm is hitting the island, shaking its economic and political foundations. Always caught between…

Fillon, beyond Macron and against Le Pen: the Republican Right is resurgent in France

Piercamillo Falasca 07/03/2025 No Comments

For the first time since 2017, Sarkozy’s former prime minister François Fillon speaks without taboos about the world and the future of France. Fillon does not hide his concern; ‘I…

No to whataboutist Europeanism

Piercamillo Falasca 06/03/2025 No Comments

Michele Serra calls for Europe, Elly Schlein calls for an abstract ‘common defence’. Both short-sightedly reject a concrete step towards a credible European defence: von der Leyen’s plan. As is…

The rogue state: Moscow will bomb Ukrainian civilians and Washington will stand by and watch

Piercamillo Falasca 06/03/2025 No Comments

Donald Trump’s decision to stop sharing US intelligence with Ukraine marks a dramatic turning point in the ongoing war. It means, in brutal terms, that US satellites will continue to…

Ukraine, America and defence: Macron relaunches the Franco-German axis

Piercamillo Falasca 05/03/2025 No Comments

French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech marks a key step in the continent’s security policy. In an increasingly unstable international landscape, Macron delivered a peremptory message: Europe can no longer afford…

Defence, peace, Europe: Schlein is unfit to govern

Piercamillo Falasca 05/03/2025 No Comments

International politics is the litmus test of political leadership. And it is precisely on international politics that PD secretary Elly Schlein is demonstrating her total inadequacy, which in our opinion…

Europe 2X: now the defence coalition, then we need a Constituent Assembly

Piercamillo Falasca 04/03/2025 No Comments

The Trump detonator has exploded. Not even two months after his inauguration, marked by the tycoon and his acolytes’ frenzied international activism, the world and in particular the West have…

How Giorgia can get out of the corner, for Italy and for Europe

Piercamillo Falasca 03/03/2025 No Comments

The facts of the last week are known to almost everyone. During a meeting at the White House, Donald Trump and his deputy JD Vance quarrelled with Ukrainian President Zelensky…

The lesson of Fini, a pro-European right wing is possible

Piercamillo Falasca 02/03/2025 No Comments

In an interview with Repubblica today, Gianfranco Fini takes up a theme that often emerges in the Italian and European public debate in heated tones: the identity of the right…

Ukraine now has an experienced and drone-equipped NATO army. Give it to Putin?

Piercamillo Falasca 02/03/2025 No Comments

Supporting Ukraine is not just an act of solidarity or the expression of a moral principle. It is, first and foremost, a pragmatic, almost ‘selfish’ decision that responds to a…

Either with Ukraine or with Trump&Putin. For Europe, tertium non datur

Piercamillo Falasca 01/03/2025 No Comments

As gruesome as the spectacle was, nothing happened yesterday other than what, since 5 November 2024, was perfectly known to happen. To not know it, it was only the stupid.…

The victim of Trump’s mafia ambush is the West

Piercamillo Falasca 28/02/2025 No Comments

A sort of ‘global version of Beppe Grillo’s streaming‘ was, in fact, aired. This is exactly how we can define the incredible scene staged in the Oval Office of the…

For a sovereign and free Europe: why we adhere to Michele Serra’s appeal

Piercamillo Falasca 28/02/2025 No Comments

The time for distraction is over. Europe is going through a crucial phase in its history, caught between international tensions, autocratic threats and its own structural weaknesses. We risk seeing…

EUROPE NOW! On 12 April in Rome, the call of European patriotism

Piercamillo Falasca 27/02/2025 No Comments

For the first time in three generations, Europe is in danger. And it is a danger that concerns not only the European Union as a political entity, but the entire…

Italy is the most digitally fragile country in Europe

Piercamillo Falasca 26/02/2025 No Comments

Over the past couple of months, it has become increasingly common on social platforms, particularly Facebook, to view images with emotional content generated byartificial intelligence. These deepfakes are capturing millions…

The US-Ukraine agreement on minerals and rare earths: our comments

Piercamillo Falasca 26/02/2025 No Comments

The United States – in the new predatory mode of the Trumpian era – extends its hand towards the treasure hidden underground in Kyiv – titanium, lithium, rare earths –…

‘Don’t shoot, we are Europeans’: an illusion swept away by reality

Piercamillo Falasca 25/02/2025 No Comments

As the world reorganises itself into new power structures, the European Union appears to be lagging behind, lacking real projection capacity and too dependent on the United States. We never…

Unpacking the GCC strategy in the Russia-Ukraine war and beyond

Piercamillo Falasca 25/02/2025 No Comments

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, particularly Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, have played a visible diplomatic role in the Russia-Ukraine war. Saudi Arabia’s hosting of the high-profile US-Russia talks on 18 February 2025 — the first since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — and…

‘Just peace, not surrender’: Ukrainian pride in Rome and Italian squares

Piercamillo Falasca 24/02/2025 No Comments

“Ukraine wants peace?““Yes!” replied the square.“Ukraine wants peace at any cost?““No!” shouts the square.“Ukraine wants a just peace?““Yes!”“Does Ukraine want surrender?““No!” And there is a lot of Ukraine, around the…

Liberals squeezed between Putinism and Europeanism: how to relaunch themselves?

Piercamillo Falasca 24/02/2025 No Comments

The German elections and those of other European nations have recently highlighted a trend: classic liberal parties are finding it increasingly difficult to find space in a political landscape polarised…

Long live the proportional electoral system, long live parliamentarianism

Piercamillo Falasca 24/02/2025 No Comments

What lessons can we learn from the German elections, beyond the feeling of ‘danger averted’? A first fundamental lesson, in our opinion, was provided by the turnout, an extraordinary 84…

France and UK plan puts Trump on the spot: with us or with Putin?

Piercamillo Falasca 20/02/2025 No Comments

France and Great Britain have drawn up a plan to ensure the security of Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire with Russia, which includes the deployment of at least…

Hawks, tycoons and business associates: who are Trump and Putin’s negotiators

Piercamillo Falasca 20/02/2025 No Comments

On 18 February, the first meeting between two high-level diplomatic delegations of Russia and the United States since the outbreak of war in Ukraine on 22 February 2022 was held…

Trump and Musk: calling for elections in Ukraine is submission to Putin

Piercamillo Falasca 19/02/2025 No Comments

‘Ukraine must hold new elections. It‘s not coming from Russia, it’s coming from me‘. With this statement, the President of the United States brings the Ukrainian issue back into the…

Speed, scale and intensity: the Draghi line is the only true vision for Europe

Piercamillo Falasca 18/02/2025 No Comments

From trade tariffs to the race for artificial intelligence, from the cost of energy to common defence: Mario Draghi’s speech at the European Parliament Week 2025 in Brussels left no…

Mattarella, Putin and memory betrayed: who really offended the Russians?

Piercamillo Falasca 18/02/2025 No Comments

Recently there have been claims that the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, has ‘offended the Russians’. But, as a Russian citizen and opponent of the war in Ukraine,…

The Europe we need, beyond the current EU, meets in Paris

Piercamillo Falasca 17/02/2025 No Comments

Paris, 17 February 2025. As a select group of European countries and institutional representatives meet to discuss the Ukraine crisis and relations with Donald Trump’s United States, an episode from…

Europeans, are you ready to send soldiers to Ukraine?

Piercamillo Falasca 15/02/2025 No Comments

Speaking at the Munich Conference, still reeling from the blustering statements of US Vice-President JD Vance, EU High Representative Kaja Kallas issued an unequivocal warning to European governments: the time…

Europe gets rid of its self-imposed tariffs: Draghi speaks

Piercamillo Falasca 15/02/2025 No Comments

In recent months, the European Union has returned to the centre of the global economic debate, but not for the reasons it would like. On the one hand, domestic over-regulation…

Cuts, mistakes and lies: Musk and DOGE’s accounts don’t add up

Piercamillo Falasca 15/02/2025 No Comments

It is recent news of the executive order signed by Donald Trump to strengthen the powers of the DOGE, the government department aimed at evaluating public spending in terms of…

Putin plays chess, Trump dice: the urgency of European self-defence

Piercamillo Falasca 13/02/2025 No Comments

The conflict in Ukraine has dramatically revealed that Europe can no longer rely on an international order forged in the post-war period and the certainty of an ally-umbrella across the…

20% of the CAP to artificial intelligence: a proposal

Piercamillo Falasca 11/02/2025 No Comments

Artificial intelligence is emerging as the most disruptive and strategic technology of our time, bringing irreversible transformations to key sectors such as healthcare, defence, finance and education, to name a…

Artificial intelligence: is Europe waking up?

Piercamillo Falasca 11/02/2025 No Comments

It is an awakening coming from Brussels and making itself felt as far as Paris: the European Union has announced the creation of a €20 billion EU fund to promote…

Galileo, why does myth appeal more than true history?

Piercamillo Falasca 11/02/2025 No Comments

If Galileo had been born in Lapland, he would have been a reindeer herder and not the father of the experimental method, in spite of all his talent. I think…

Baltic independence from Russian energy: a huge European success (to be protected)

Piercamillo Falasca 09/02/2025 No Comments

9 May, you know, is Europe Day. But, as of yesterday, the date 9 February rivals the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration in historical importance: the Baltic Republics – Estonia,…

How Poland took off (and now leads Europe)

Piercamillo Falasca 07/02/2025 No Comments

Economic recovery pillar of rebirth In a previous article(How Poland is becoming the engine of Europe) we had the opportunity to certify the increasingly central role that Poland is playing…

On Gaza Trump scatters, bluffs and raises, but something is brewing

Piercamillo Falasca 06/02/2025 No Comments

Donald Trump ‘s release on the ‘transfer/relocation‘ of Palestinians from Gaza brings to mind some not too distant episodes that took place between January and August 2020. These facts, little…

Georgia, Italian ambassador pampers pro-Russians: Lombardo’s question to Tajani

Piercamillo Falasca 05/02/2025 No Comments

“Is everything normal?” This is the spontaneous question asked by journalist Marco Fattorini ( our guest in a live stream a few weeks ago) when faced with Italy’s attitude towards…

Middle East: Saudi Arabia is the key, not the Israeli extremist right wing

Piercamillo Falasca 05/02/2025 No Comments

Saudi Arabia has sent an unequivocal message to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu in recent hours:‘There will be no normalisation with Israel without the creation of an independent Palestinian state‘.…

Italian supplies for Russian missiles? The shadows of the Cividale case

Piercamillo Falasca 05/02/2025 No Comments

On 8 July 2023, in the centre of the city of Liman, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, which has been battered by the Russian invasion, a Smerč missile launch…

Trump wants Ukrainian rare earths? Then help Kyiv win the war

Piercamillo Falasca 04/02/2025 No Comments

Donald Trump’s latest statement on a possible deal with Ukraine for the exploitation of rare earths, in exchange for military and economic aid, has reignited the debate on US foreign…

In Panama US and China play an advance of the match to be played in Taiwan

Piercamillo Falasca 03/02/2025 No Comments

The Panamanian government announced it would not renew the 2017 memorandum of understanding with China on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The decision, announced by President José Raúl Mulino…

Europe intermittently: Denmark (like others) calls for unity only when it suits it

Piercamillo Falasca 03/02/2025 No Comments

The issue of Greenland, and President Trump’s threat to seize it, risks becoming an interesting exercise in observing EU history. We certainly live in complicated times, and these are highlighting…

EU must be reformed, but as long as it exists there will be no trade war in Europe

Piercamillo Falasca 02/02/2025 No Comments

While the US unleashes a senseless trade war with Mexico and Canada – with 25% tariffs imposed by the Trump administration and inevitable retaliation from neighbouring countries – in Europe…

AI, drones, and algorithmic supremacy: the new face of warfare

Piercamillo Falasca 31/01/2025 No Comments

Chance creates unpredictable coincidences, capable of forever changing the course of human society. One such coincidence is undoubtedly the temporal overlap between the war in Ukraine and the rapid spread…

Calexit, California authorises signature collection for independence referendum

Piercamillo Falasca 30/01/2025 No Comments

The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States in 2016 had profound repercussions in the political and social fabric of the United States. Among the most striking…

The EU Commission’s Competitiveness Compass: a reasoned summary

Piercamillo Falasca 29/01/2025 No Comments

The EU Competitiveness Compass has just been launched by the Commission. As always, it is a dull-looking, dense and technical policy document, full of regulatory references, quantitative targets and strategic…

Trump and leash diplomacy: how the EU can react

Piercamillo Falasca 29/01/2025 No Comments

The great paradox of our times lies in relying on those who propose ever simpler solutions, ever more ascribable to the black or white dimension, in a world that is…

DeepSeek, Huawei and the challenge to Nvidia: new scenarios for AI chips

Piercamillo Falasca 29/01/2025 No Comments

In the world of artificial intelligence, GPUs, i.e. graphics processors, have become a key element for training and executing machine learning models. To date, Nvidia has dominated this sector with…

Greenland: France proposes European troops, Italy remains mute

Piercamillo Falasca 29/01/2025 No Comments

The French proposal to send troops to Greenland has broken the deadlock in Europe. Indeed, Paris’ Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot confirmed that he had opened talks with Copenhagen on the…

Surreal: the world runs, but in February the EU’s AI Act bans come into force

Piercamillo Falasca 28/01/2025 No Comments

While the world accelerates towards a future shaped by artificial intelligence, the European Union seems busy putting brakes and constraints that risk becoming a cage rather than a guide. On…

The EU and the threat of US selective tariffs: details, instruments and risks

Piercamillo Falasca 27/01/2025 No Comments

The possibility of the Trump administration imposing selective tariffs on a specific EU country, such as Denmark, represents an extremely complex challenge to the European project, even one that could…

27 January: Hypocrisy Day, not just a day of remembrance

Piercamillo Falasca 27/01/2025 No Comments

Like every 27 January, this year again there is no shortage of voices expressing compassion, indignation, horror and mourning in memory of the dead caused by the Shoah from 1933…

The War of the Americas: Trump sacrifices US interests to propaganda

Piercamillo Falasca 26/01/2025 No Comments

The war of the Americas has begun. Donald Trump has found a new enemy: Colombia, a historical ally of the United States. Colombian President Gustavo Petro‘s decision to reject two…

Tusk slaps Orbán: ‘Consequences for those who side with Putin’

Piercamillo Falasca 25/01/2025 No Comments

European politics is again the scene of high diplomatic tensions, with Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, at the centre of controversy. Donald Tusk, former Polish prime minister and current…

And now it’s tariff-ic

Piercamillo Falasca 25/01/2025 No Comments

And now it’s tariff-ic. Trump dixit, it will be bitter duties for everyone, for some more. What do you want to do with the duties? Simple and ingenious as communication:…

EU should suspend the AI Act, before it is too late

Piercamillo Falasca 24/01/2025 No Comments

The European Union is shooting itself in the foot. With the AI Act, we risk turning into a stagnant market, where innovation and productivity are stifled by regulations designed to…

Volkswagen, the people’s car with no more people

Piercamillo Falasca 24/01/2025 No Comments

After a prolonged period of asphyctic growth, Germany’s GDP contracted by 0.2% in 2024, confirming the downward trend already reported the previous year (-0.3%). The causes of the setback for…

How Italy and Mongolia trampled international law (but Italy with dishonour)

Piercamillo Falasca 23/01/2025 No Comments

That these are times in which brute force has returned to regulate relations between states, and in which international law is no longer respected even in words, is there for…

Artificial intelligence and the natural deficiency of the superbonus

Piercamillo Falasca 23/01/2025 No Comments

That’s all we should talk about in Italy, namely how our country with the Superbonus has burned through sufficient resources to implement an investment plan in innovation on a level…

Stargate plan: Musk against Trump? Here’s what we know

Piercamillo Falasca 23/01/2025 No Comments

Project Stargate, launched by Donald Trump with fanfare and attached executive orders, has attracted global attention as the most ambitious plan ever conceived in the field of artificial intelligence. With…

Tusk and the Pact from Warsaw: ‘Europe is not dead as long as we are alive’

Piercamillo Falasca 22/01/2025 No Comments

Donald Tusk in Strasbourg, the Polish Prime Minister presents the programme of the EU Presidency and raises the issue of defence, identity and the global role of the Union. Poland…

Does Trump shelve green policy? No, the market does. The BP case

Piercamillo Falasca 21/01/2025 No Comments

‘Doing the accounts without the innkeeper‘, or rather, without the shareholder. This is how one can sum up the disgraceful administration of Bernard Looney, the former CEO of BP who…

The eternal Biden, a thoroughbred politician: what impact has his presidency had?

Piercamillo Falasca 20/01/2025 No Comments

On 20 January, Joe Biden’s presidential term will officially come to an end, bringing to a close an eternal political career that began in 1970 as a New Castle County…

As of today there are 1461 days until the end of the Trump presidency

Piercamillo Falasca 20/01/2025 No Comments

With the start of the new presidential term, there are exactly 1461 days until the end of Donald Trump’s presidency. Three years ago 365 days and a leap year of…

TikTok, a weapon of Chinese hybrid warfare: Europe should ban it too

Piercamillo Falasca 19/01/2025 No Comments

In Europe, before any drug can be marketed, it requires countless safety and quality certifications, as well as authorisation by the EMA (European Medicines Agency). Protecting collective health is rightly…

How Poland is becoming the engine of Europe

Piercamillo Falasca 19/01/2025 No Comments

Warsaw’s new course away from Moscow and close to Brussels Poland is not just a state; it is a bridge between East and West bathed by the Baltic Sea, a…

MEGA? Sure, but also Make Europe Finally United. Open letter to Elon Musk

Piercamillo Falasca 18/01/2025 No Comments

Dear Elon, Your comment touches on a real challenge, but the response given by your so-called friends in Europe—sovereigntists and nationalists—is to abandon the idea of a united Europe in…

Words are seeds and bear fruit, even those of Trumpian war speech

Piercamillo Falasca 18/01/2025 No Comments

What does it mean when the elected President of the United States threatens a NATO country (Denmark) with taking part of its territory ( Greenland) by force if it does…

Why the Italian school debate has flared up

Piercamillo Falasca 18/01/2025 No Comments

For a few days now, panic has been spreading in the virtual world over the new guidelines that Minister Valditara has announced for secondary schools.There is talk of Latin and…

European economic suicide, and how to be reborn

Piercamillo Falasca 18/01/2025 No Comments

According to the European Commission’s autumn forecast, eurozone GDP is expected to grow by 0.7-0.8% year-on-year in 2024. This is, if we exclude the -6.1% slump attributable to the pandemic…

Iran and the release of Cecilia Sala: reality beyond the rhetoric

Piercamillo Falasca 17/01/2025 No Comments

We are all happy for the release of Cecilia Sala, no ifs or buts. As an Iranian, I firmly believe that no one should spend a single second in the…

Israel and Palestine: a guide for the inexperienced

Piercamillo Falasca 17/01/2025 No Comments

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most complex and enduring disputes in modern history. Rooted in historical, religious, political and territorial issues, the conflict has its roots in the…

Israel, why the truce will hold

Piercamillo Falasca 16/01/2025 No Comments

Tomorrow, the security cabinet will meet to approve the hostage release and truce agreement in Gaza, which will then be confirmed by the government. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir…

Russia buys gas from Europe: the energy paradox of a broken power

Piercamillo Falasca 16/01/2025 No Comments

In an increasingly unpredictable world, the news reported by Kommersant is surprising: Russia will buy gas from Europe via an intermediary company to meet Transnistria‘s needs, with the costs covered…

The trilateral for clean energy: Italy-Albania-United Arab Emirates agreement

Piercamillo Falasca 15/01/2025 No Comments

The trilateral agreement between Italy, Albania and the United Arab Emiratesto build a billion euro energy infrastructure is a concrete step towards a more sustainable energy future in Europe. Announced…

Three years, three wars. A review of Ukraine on the eve of Trump’s return

Piercamillo Falasca 15/01/2025 No Comments

In less than a week Donald Trump will take office again as president of the United States. To understand the options he faces on Ukraine, it is useful to take…

Slapped by Putin: when will we, Europeans, wake up?

Piercamillo Falasca 15/01/2025 No Comments

“Negotiations on Ukraine must be held between Russia and the United States without the participation of any other Western country. We have nothing to talk about with London or Brussels…

How Taiwan prepares for potential Chinese invasion

Piercamillo Falasca 14/01/2025 No Comments

Faced with the looming threat from China, Taiwan is equipping itself with an articulated defence strategy, combining advanced technology, military innovation and targeted geopolitical manoeuvres. The island, considered a ‘rebel…

Lebanon, the Saudi move that redraws the Middle Eastern (and Mediterranean) chessboard

Piercamillo Falasca 14/01/2025 No Comments

Lebanon is today at the centre of a profound change and regional geopolitical rebalancing. The election of General Joseph Aoun as president of Lebanon – which we reported on a…

For an open secret, Nordio gave Abedini a victim’s licence

Piercamillo Falasca 13/01/2025 No Comments

It could be said that Minister Carlo Nordio yesterday simply finalised the prisoner exchange agreed between the Italian and Iranian governments following the release of Cecilia Sala. But those who…

The future of the US Democrats, between breakaways, drifts to the left and centrist thrusts

Piercamillo Falasca 12/01/2025 No Comments

With Donald Trump‘s inauguration just days away, the US Democratic Party finds itself in deep crisis, seen as detached from reality and far from the demands and sentiment of the…

Is China building barges to land in Taiwan?

Piercamillo Falasca 11/01/2025 No Comments

China is taking decisive steps in its military preparedness, and defence analysts around the world are watching closely. The latest news – according to the specialist website Naval News –…

The story of Danylo Yefimov, 19-year-old Ukrainian detained and tortured in a Russian prison

Piercamillo Falasca 11/01/2025 No Comments

The case of Danylo Yefimov, a 19-year-old from the mining town of Snizhne, in the Donetsk region, and now imprisoned in a Russian maximum-security penal colony, is emblematic of the…

Meloni, Musk and Trump, between perception and reality

Piercamillo Falasca 11/01/2025 No Comments

Elon is not a representative of the US government or a greedy (by nature inherently like the others) capitalist, but a friend, to whom I do no favours (perhaps). Thus…

Lebanon, Aoun elected president: hope or illusion?

Piercamillo Falasca 10/01/2025 No Comments

General Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces since 2017, was elected president of Lebanon on Thursday during the second round of parliamentary voting. His election comes at a…

In Europe we are born free. Do we want to live as other people’s dishwashers?

Piercamillo Falasca 09/01/2025 No Comments

Decades pass, but we always remain at Henry Kissinger‘s famous quip about the absence of a telephone number to call Europe. Today, in the face of Donald Trump’s return to…

Taiwan seems far away, but it is the crush test of world order

Piercamillo Falasca 08/01/2025 No Comments

Taiwan, an island in the middle of the Pacific, is increasingly the focus of global attention, a strategic crossroads in a world where geopolitical tensions are intensifying. Russia’s brutal invasion…

On defence Trump is right. Those who love Europe, admit it

Piercamillo Falasca 08/01/2025 No Comments

Donald Trump, with his demand that NATO countries spend at least 5% of their GDP on defence, has launched a provocation that should not be ignored. Beyond the exact figure,…

Canada in the European Union? The Economist’s idea for thinking outside the box

Piercamillo Falasca 08/01/2025 No Comments

In the latest issue of The Economist, a provocative article proposes a bold idea, all the more so in the context of the overheated debate of recent days: invite Canada…

Starlink exists, Iris2 still not: Musk’s strength lies in European delays

Piercamillo Falasca 07/01/2025 No Comments

According to reports first from Bloomberg, and then from the same oblique statements by the protagonists, the Italian government is reportedly in advanced negotiations for a contract worth €1.5 billion…

Nordic Warden starts, NATO Nordic bloc operation against the Russian shadow fleet

Piercamillo Falasca 07/01/2025 No Comments

The safety of submarine infrastructure has become a priority for the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), a coalition of 10 Nordic and Baltic countries coordinated by the UK. In response to…

Dear Europeanists, this discouraged Europe is not ours

Piercamillo Falasca 06/01/2025 No Comments

The old ‘Europeanism ‘ and the old ‘sovereignism’ have in common a fear of risk and the belief that Europeans have nothing more to give to humanity. They are wrong.…

Has the rupture between Russia and Germany favoured the US?

Piercamillo Falasca 06/01/2025 No Comments

The war between Russia and Ukraine has generated a series of geopolitical consequences that go far beyond regional borders, involving international actors with diverging interests. Among the various issues under…

Make Europe Great Again. The appeal of Tusk, our Donald of Europe

Piercamillo Falasca 05/01/2025 No Comments

“Europe, are you ready to get back on the road of greatness and strength? Poland is ready!” With this sharp and direct message, Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland, chose…

Kuleba the Optimist: “Ukraine is in its strongest position ever, Russia is an empire in decline”

Piercamillo Falasca 04/01/2025 No Comments

In a comprehensive interview with the Kyiv Independent, Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s former foreign minister, expressed optimism about his country’s standing amid the ongoing conflict with Russia. Kuleba, who stepped down…

The future of the planet passes through Greenland: Trump gets it, Europe still doesn’t

Piercamillo Falasca 03/01/2025 No Comments

‘For the United States, buying Greenland is a necessity‘. Donald Trump declared this a few days ago, and the pattern is the usual: he throws a huge rock into the…

Jimmy Carter, a progressive conservative: History will recognise his merits

Piercamillo Falasca 02/01/2025 No Comments

The thirty-ninth American President and Nobel Peace Prize winner James Earl Carter, known as Jimmy, who held office from 1976 to 1980, when he left the White House defeated by…

1 January 2025: Europe free of Russian gas at last

Piercamillo Falasca 01/01/2025 No Comments

Today is a day that will go down in the history books: 1 January 2025 marks the beginning of a new era for Europe. With the end of the agreement…

Islam and women’s rights: the Moroccan way

Piercamillo Falasca 31/12/2024 No Comments

The recent proposal to reform the family code in Morocco represents a significant breakthrough, and the first substantial revision in 20 years, regarding the rights of women and children. The…

Mayors increasingly alone: the 2025 that awaits small municipalities

Piercamillo Falasca 31/12/2024 No Comments

2025 will not be a good year for Italian mayors, especially those in charge of small or very small municipalities. With further cuts in state transfers, difficulties in the provision…

Iranian Diaspora: No to Tehran’s blackmail to free Sala, we are at war

Piercamillo Falasca 30/12/2024 No Comments

The arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala in Iran and her detention in the notorious Evin prison, a symbol of the Islamic Republic‘s political repression, has brought attention back to…

Why wokism rhymes with anti-Semitism

Piercamillo Falasca 30/12/2024 No Comments

For essayist Samuel Fitoussi, wokism is based on the same logic as the old anti-Semitism. The idea is the following: if some groups succeed better than others, it is because…

Why I believe Ukraine and Israel are fighting two very different conflicts

Piercamillo Falasca 29/12/2024 No Comments

This article offers an alternative perspective to the one published on December 21 in L’Europeista titled: “The Double Standard Between Ukraine and Israel: A European Syndrome” (by Vincenzo D’Arienzo). It…

Azamat’s story explains why Cecilia Sala “couldn’t just stay at home.”

Piercamillo Falasca 29/12/2024 No Comments

The plane crash near Aktau, Kazakhstan, would never have come to light in its shocking truth without the courage and promptness of Azamat Sarsenbayev. A blogger and bricklayer, Azamat certainly…

Georgian youth, Europe’s last stand. An interview with Gocha Gogsadze

Piercamillo Falasca 28/12/2024 No Comments

On the bustling streets of Tbilisi, where historic architecture meets the energy of modern urban life, a defining struggle for Georgia’s future is playing out. Thousands of citizens are protesting…

The Opinion of Russian Dissidents: “The Aktau Tragedy? Putin’s Method”

Piercamillo Falasca 28/12/2024 No Comments

A passenger plane of Azerbaijan Airlines was likely shot down by Russian air defense over the skies of Grozny and made an emergency landing in Aktau, Kazakhstan. This news has…

Il dossier Gaetz: un rapporto incastra l'ex candidato alla carica di procuratore generale dell'Amministrazione Trump

The Gaetz dossier: secrets and shadows on the former Attorney General candidate

Piercamillo Falasca 26/12/2024 No Comments

On Monday 23 December, a much-discussed document was published in the United States: the report of the Ethics Committee of the US Congress on Matt Gaetz, Trump’s first choice to…

Geopolitics of AI: a must-have book

Piercamillo Falasca 24/12/2024 No Comments

In his new book Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence, author Alessandro Aresu – political scientist and strategic analyst, former political advisor to the Draghi and Meloni governments – guides us through…

Why blaming NATO for expansion is wrong, explained well

Piercamillo Falasca 23/12/2024 No Comments

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 is often justified by the Kremlin with the argument that NATO ‘s eastward expansion represented (and represents) an existential threat to Russia’s security.…

Magdeburg: evoking the ‘war of religion’ has spawned the insane ‘war on religion’

Piercamillo Falasca 21/12/2024 No Comments

It was only a matter of time, sooner or later it had to happen: the first anti-Islamic attack in Europe. An act of terrorism against Islam, born not from faith,…

From Mario’s Second Letter to the Europeans

Piercamillo Falasca 20/12/2024 No Comments

A manifesto for future EuropeAt the third Paris Symposium, Mario Draghi delivered a speech that – if we were not increasingly distracted by the howls of a hysterical public debate…

The crisis of Beko Italy, symbol of collapse

Piercamillo Falasca 20/12/2024 No Comments

On 10 December,ISTAT released data on Italian industrial production in October, which recorded a 3.6% year-on-year drop, weighed down by the sinking automotive(-40%) and clothing sectors. With October, the country…

The brave Donald of Europe: “Stop speculating about Ukraine’s defeat”

Piercamillo Falasca 19/12/2024 No Comments

Donald Tusk, former President of the European Council and a key figure in European politics, has issued a powerful appeal to Western leaders from Lviv, the symbolic heart of Western…

Zelensky’s surrender? Only in the heads of Putin’s puppets

Piercamillo Falasca 19/12/2024 No Comments

Volodymyr Zelensky ‘s interview with Le Parisien was manipulated by some Italian newspapers, such as Il Fatto Quotidiano, which shamefully spoke of a declared ‘surrender’ by the president of Ukraine.…

Only the European Army can guarantee a just peace in Ukraine

Piercamillo Falasca 19/12/2024 No Comments

We have arrived at the knot of knots. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has taken a bold and pragmatic step, admitting that, with the current conditions and available resources, Ukraine will…

Georgia and the distortion of reality

Piercamillo Falasca 18/12/2024 No Comments

*The author is a Member of the Italian Parliament In recent days, the political situation in Georgia has brought the tensions in the country to the fore. Georgian Prime Minister…

Meloni pro-European? Gravity applies to sovereigntists too

Piercamillo Falasca 18/12/2024 No Comments

There is something ironic, almost theatrical, in seeing Giorgia Meloni, once queen of the squares against Brussels and champion of the anti-euro crusades, suddenly discover that ‘united we go further’.…

Irregular immigration and Trump’s policies

Piercamillo Falasca 17/12/2024 No Comments

One of the main political points of Donald Trump ‘s political epic has certainly been the fight against illegal immigration, which at times has reached even exasperated tones, as when…

The double standard between Ukraine and Israel: a European syndrome

Piercamillo Falasca 17/12/2024 No Comments

Introduction: a context of asymmetry in the global debate In the contemporary geopolitical landscape, narratives emerge that seem to apply double standards when it comes to the right to defence…

AI Act: regulatory revolution or chimera?

Piercamillo Falasca 16/12/2024 No Comments

The AI Act, the European Union’s first attempt to organically regulate artificial intelligence, promises to reconcile technological innovation and the protection of fundamental rights. However, beyond declarations of principle, the…

“Defence spending outside the Stability Pact. Either Eurobonds or Tajani is right

Piercamillo Falasca 16/12/2024 No Comments

“Defence spending must be excluded from the Stability Pact“. With these words, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani brought a crucial question to the centre of the European debate: how to…

Draghi’s powerful appeal to Europe: innovate to conserve

Piercamillo Falasca 16/12/2024 No Comments

“We all want the society that Europe promised us, a society in which we can uphold our values regardless of how the world around us changes. But we do not…

Why the German locomotive broke down

Piercamillo Falasca 15/12/2024 No Comments

Germany has long presented itself as a global model, both in the fight against climate change and in the management of social and migration policies. However, the current picture tells…

UK freezes Assad’s accounts: an appeal for justice and consistency

Piercamillo Falasca 14/12/2024 No Comments

Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity, may have access to a £55 million (around €65 million) fortune held in an account at the…

Mercosur, free trade is beneficial if the rules are the same for all

Piercamillo Falasca 13/12/2024 No Comments

Being liberal means supporting free trade based on reciprocity. Signing a free trade agreement with Mercosur – Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay – without guaranteeing a level playing field risks…

Did we wait for a pro-European government in Romania to open Schengen? A wise choice

Piercamillo Falasca 12/12/2024 No Comments

The entry of Romania and Bulgaria into the Schengen area, scheduled for 1 January 2025, goes beyond a technical decision. It is a sign of trust towards the two countries…

“Europe should engage with the Arabian Gulf.” Data and analysis from the EGIC report

Piercamillo Falasca 12/12/2024 No Comments

The recent infographic by the Euro Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) paints a vivid picture of the growing economic ties between the European Union (EU) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).…

Yasmine, Christmas miracle to Europe that does not look beyond the sea

Piercamillo Falasca 12/12/2024 No Comments

Europe had its Christmas miracle this year, but our Ursula/Alice does not know this. In the Strait of Sicily, an 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued, who ended up…

Why do UEFA and the EU allow Red Star to promote Gazprom and Putin?

Piercamillo Falasca 12/12/2024 No Comments

Those who watched last night’s football match between AC Milan and Red Star Belgrade, which was valid for the sixth round of the Champions League, will probably have noticed that…

Antonio Megalizzi’s dream is an unbreakable commitment

Piercamillo Falasca 11/12/2024 No Comments

With Antonio Megalizzi I had a personal and very direct dialogue. At the end of 2017, I had spent several weeks trying to convince him to run in the 2018…

European Welfare. If not today when?

Piercamillo Falasca 11/12/2024 No Comments

A few years ago a directoire met in Europe. There was the Greek crisis, and the four largest countries – Italy, considered a Pigs (a country at financial risk), France,…

50 companies linked to Russian disinformation unmasked in Bulgaria

Piercamillo Falasca 10/12/2024 No Comments

For years, Bulgaria has been the scene of insidious infiltration and manipulation by Russian disinformation, fuelled by sophisticated financing and strategies aimed at conditioning the country’s politics, economy and public…

Syria: Europe now needs a pragmatic approach

Piercamillo Falasca 10/12/2024 No Comments

The end of Bashar al-Assad’s long and brutal dictatorship represents a historic turning point for Syria and the entire Middle East region. The statements of the European institutions, which have…

Truth as an antidote to dictatorship, according to Harari

Piercamillo Falasca 10/12/2024 No Comments

In the age of rampant disinformation, understanding how truth, populism and artificial intelligence intertwine in the global landscape is no longer just a theoretical question, but an urgent and crucial…

Romania vs TikTok: democracy dying or democracy defending itself?

Piercamillo Falasca 09/12/2024 No Comments

The facts On 24 November, Romanians voted in the first round of the presidential elections.Alongside the candidates of the establishment (social democrats and national liberals), accused not without all the…

Garibaldi, a Europeanist forerunner of modernity

Piercamillo Falasca 09/12/2024 No Comments

Giuseppe Garibaldi, one of the most famous protagonists of the Italian Risorgimento, is often remembered for his heroic deeds that led to the unification of Italy. However, his political vision…

Northvolt failure: Europe does not need autarky, but power strategy

Piercamillo Falasca 09/12/2024 No Comments

Last Wednesday, Luca Angelini, from the pages of Corriere della Sera, posed a rhetorical question to readers on the subject of cars: “what if the reason for the slump in…

A sovereign Europe: US disengagement from NATO as an opportunity

Piercamillo Falasca 09/12/2024 No Comments

“If we are not treated fairly, we will consider leaving NATO.”– Donald Trump Donald Trump’s announcement of a possible US exit from NATO can no longer be ignored. Whether it…

US out of NATO? Facts and figures behind Trump’s declaration

Piercamillo Falasca 08/12/2024 No Comments

“The US could leave NATO if we are not treated fairly.”– Donald Trump, 8 December 2024. US President elect Donald Trump has once again caused a stir by declaring the…

Syria, the war of the bastards: actors and scenarios

Piercamillo Falasca 08/12/2024 No Comments

The fall of Bashar al-Assad‘s regime in December 2024 marks a turning point in Syria’s history. After more than five decades of authoritarian rule by the Assad family, the country…

Georgia, the urgency of Western support: our interview with Terje Helland

Piercamillo Falasca 08/12/2024 No Comments

Terje Helland, an External Advisor at the European Neighborhood Council in Brussels, is emerging as a prominent figure in Europe when it comes to Georgia’s political crisis. Through interviews with…

Romania: Democracy is not just voting, but a system of values

Piercamillo Falasca 08/12/2024 No Comments

The cancellation of the presidential elections in Romania is not a setback, but a concrete example of how the defence of democracy can sometimes require extreme gestures. We are not…

What happened in Romania: details, actors and para-mafia infiltration

Piercamillo Falasca 08/12/2024 No Comments

Romania is at the centre of an unprecedented democratic crisis. On 6 December 2024, the Constitutional Court annulled the results of the first round of the presidential elections, citing serious…

The alternative to sovereignism is not woke culture, but European patriotism

Piercamillo Falasca 07/12/2024 No Comments

A crucial phase for the European Union With the approval of the new Von Der Leyen II Commission, the European Union enters a crucial phase marked by vital global challenges…

A 500 billion fund for European defence, the big bang needed

Piercamillo Falasca 07/12/2024 No Comments

Donald Trump’s return to the White House for a second term could be a crucial moment for Europe’s security. With the prospect of reduced US support for NATO andUkraine, Europe…

Russia, NATO and the Baltic Sea: a strategy of borders, hybrid tactics and raw nerves

Piercamillo Falasca 06/12/2024 No Comments

In May 2024, a briefly published document by the Russian Ministry of Defence reignited tensions in the Baltic Sea. The proposal, which suggested a unilateral revision of maritime borders in…

In Romania, Russia declares war on Europe. Which does not surrender

Piercamillo Falasca 06/12/2024 No Comments

The Romanian Constitutional Court’s decision to annul the presidential elections hides a disturbing reality: yet another attempt by Russia to sabotage and infiltrate European democracy. This time, however, the attempt…

Italians against the West: the art of complaining about wellbeing

Piercamillo Falasca 06/12/2024 No Comments

The latest Censis report paints an Italy where aversion to the West, scepticism towards Europeanism and disillusionment with Atlanticism are growing. In short, the average Italian seems ready to question…

Romanian elections and manipulation on TikTok: EU reacts with Digital Services Act

Piercamillo Falasca 06/12/2024 No Comments

On 5 December 2024, the European Commission ordered TikTok to freeze and store all data related to the Romanian elections. This action, made possible by the Digital Services Act (DSA),…

Orbán’s lousy six-month presidency exposes EU limitations: radical reform needed

Piercamillo Falasca 06/12/2024 No Comments

Hungary’s six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union, under the leadership of Viktor Orbán until 31 December 2024, will not be remembered for European progress, but for the…

Winston Churchill: 150 years later, the leader missing in the present

Piercamillo Falasca 05/12/2024 No Comments

On 30 November 1874, Winston Churchill was born, an iconic and controversial figure in 20th century politics and history. In an era marked by global conflicts and geopolitical transformations, Churchill…

So many risks and insufficient resources: in France there is a shortage of mayors. And in Italy?

Piercamillo Falasca 05/12/2024 No Comments

The French, often called ‘our cousins’, share not only a geographical proximity with us, but also common cultural and linguistic roots. However, it is precisely this mixture of affinity and…

Magnette: proportional system to avoid the Italianisation of French politics

Piercamillo Falasca 05/12/2024 No Comments

‘The rule of the French political game makes parliamentary democracy very difficult’. This is the view of Paul Magnette, president of the Belgian Socialist Party and professor of political theory…

The pro-European centre wins in Ireland: pragmatism works

Piercamillo Falasca 05/12/2024 No Comments

Ireland reappointed the outgoing coalition, proving that governing and winning elections without populism and anti-Europeanism is still possible. Unlike many other countries, voters chose not to punish incumbent rulers during…

Hegseth at risk: Republican senators are not so prone to Trump

Piercamillo Falasca 05/12/2024 No Comments

It is very recent news, announced by the Wall Street Journal, that Pete Hegseth, selected by Donald Trump as a possible Secretary of Defence, will probably not be confirmed by…

Putin also killed John Lennon, the time for peace&love is over

Piercamillo Falasca 05/12/2024 No Comments

‘Imagine all the people…’ is about to be archived. The iconic song of John Lennon and an era of high hopes, of youth movements, of contestation to wars – Vietnam…

Musk’s man in Italy, solution to European automotive crisis was Italian invention now in Chinese hands

Piercamillo Falasca 04/12/2024 No Comments

Andrea Stroppa, shareholder of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and xAI, considered to be ‘Musk’s man’ in Italy, issues a warning about the European car industry. According to him, the crisis does…

Wave of arrests and repression in Georgia: President asks Europe for help

Piercamillo Falasca 04/12/2024 No Comments

Brutal arrests among opposition leaders Tensions in Georgia reached a new peak of political and social crisis. Today, the leader of the opposition party and former minister Nika Gvaramia was…

EPP poised between pro-Europeans and nationalists. Weber bogged down in deforestation case

Piercamillo Falasca 04/12/2024 No Comments

On 3 December 2024, the European Union reached an agreement on the EU Deforestation Regulation, marking the end of a negotiation path characterised by high political tensions. The goal of…

Time for Eurobonds: Panetta in the wake of Draghi and Merkel

Piercamillo Falasca 04/12/2024 No Comments

Fabio Panetta, Governor of the Bank of Italy, turned the spotlight on one of the most controversial and ambitious issues for the future of the European Union: the introduction of…

The catastrophe in Syria is the result of cynicism disguised as pacifism

Piercamillo Falasca 04/12/2024 No Comments

When one hears the great interpreters of geopolitical realism censure the internationalist naivety of a West captive to the dream of exporting democracy and eradicating autocracy in the Middle East…

Le Pen flees from the judges and Mélenchon from reality: France held hostage

Piercamillo Falasca 03/12/2024 No Comments

France is going through one of the most serious political crises in its recent history. The government led by Michel Barnier, already in a precarious position, is threatened by a…

What will Fitto do in Brussels?

Piercamillo Falasca 02/12/2024 No Comments

Having overcome the difficulties of the complex European negotiations, the Von Der Leyen II Commission is finally set in motion, with Raffaele Fitto in the role of executive vice-president, flanked…

Belgium recognises sex workers: reform necessary but not sufficient

Piercamillo Falasca 02/12/2024 No Comments

On 1 December 2024, Belgium took a significant step forward for workers’ rights by passing a law giving people employed in sex work access to regular employment contracts and social…

Grillo, the 11.03 announcement is a reference to the Templars and the guillotine

Piercamillo Falasca 02/12/2024 No Comments

Now at open war with his ungrateful son Giuseppe Conte, M5S founder Beppe Grillo is back with one of his riddles that would put even the authors of the Settimana…

Either European Defence is born or we pay tribute to the American Empire

Piercamillo Falasca 02/12/2024 No Comments

Donald Trump has been making this clear for a year. Either Europe increases military spending or America disengages from NATO policy. If not understood, the American diktat could be an…

Tavares resigned, but no one will miss him

Piercamillo Falasca 01/12/2024 No Comments

Carlos Tavares announced his resignation as CEO of Stellantis on 1 December 2024, ending a leadership that left behind more shadows than lights. Initially celebrated as a visionary leader, his…

Kvara is not a politician, but on European roads he was born and wants to stay there

Piercamillo Falasca 01/12/2024 No Comments

“The desire and will of the Georgian people is to walk and walk on the roads of Europe. This is our historical choice, the only right choice, and it is…