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On 21 January 2026, the World Economic Forum in Davos witnessed a memorable speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who launched a harsh attack on Europe, accusing it of hypocrisy. “One year on from my speech last year, nothing has changed. […] The leaders say: we must defend European interests, but they hope that someone […]

Donald Trump’s arrival at the World Economic Forum in Davos, preceded by an electrical failure on his plane that forced a delayed departure, quickly became something more than a technical or colourful episode. In an international context already marked by structural tensions, the political message that Trump entrusted to his first statements immediately appeared loaded […]

In recent years, we’ve got used to talking about NATO as if it were a tired, almost automatic body. A structure that exists because it has to, but that always reacts late, without real vision. A bit like EU itself, actually. And yet, looking at what happened around the Greenland issue, one starts to think […]

In 1999, Weimar was elected European Capital of Culture. It was a singular choice because this name recalled at the same time the highest and lowest peaks of humanity: on the one hand Goethe, Schiller and the Bauhaus, Bach and Liszt, the Enlightenment and the artistic avant-gardes; on the other hand the extermination camp of […]

On Saturday 17 January, the route from the Circus Maximus to the Roma Ostiense metro stop was criss-crossed by choirs from the Iranian community in Rome. Women and men strongly demanded an end to the ayatollahs’ regime and the return of an Iran free of the Islamic Republic. Several times, breaking the stillness of a […]

In the accelerated contemporary world, dominated by short electoral cycles, permanent crises and decisions made on the wave of the emergency, China appears as a historical anomaly. While other superpowers – or former superpowers – seem to move in an eternal present, Beijing continues to think in terms of decades, sometimes centuries. It is not […]