For decades, the economic heart of Europe has been identified primarily with its central-western axis. That centre of gravity remains fundamental, but trade, infrastructure, energy and new relationships with the southern shore are making the picture more complex. The Mediterranean is no longer merely the southern edge of the single market, but a space linking […]

Saudi Arabia is 800 times larger than Luxembourg and has 50 times the population. Yet, according to the Riyadh-based statistics institute, by the end of 2024, the stock of Luxembourg’s direct investment in the Kingdom stood at 101 billion riyals (approximately 27 billion dollars), a tenth of the total: more than France’s, which stands at […]

Defence, energy, industry and foreign policy call for a stronger Europe. But European sovereignty loses its meaning if entire regions continue to lose young people, jobs and services. The ability to choose one’s own future also depends on this. Sovereignty is the freedom to choose A young person leaving a small Italian town to study […]

Anna Koshkina, a Russian opera singer and activist living in Rome, talks about the protests by Russian citizens living abroad during the Duma elections, the fear of speaking out, and the difficulties faced by those opposed to the war in Ukraine. We had the pleasure of interviewing Anna Koshkina following the elections to the Duma, […]

The role of school education is to educate young people. It does so for two main purposes: to equip them with the technical and intellectual skills needed to find a job and, above all, to foster a generation of active citizens. To fulfil this role, young people need to understand the world in which they […]

An Italian Eurofighter was hit at the Saudi base in Taif. The following day, Muhammad Mansur, an official at the Ministry of Information of the Houthi government in Sana’a, issued a statement to ANSA that is worth reading carefully: ‘Ours is a legitimate armed resistance in the face of prolonged Saudi aggression. We are not […]

During the night between Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 September, the European Commission and the Philippine government announced that they had reached a substantial agreement on a future free trade agreement. Ursula von der Leyen announced this on X with considerable enthusiasm. The announcement, and von der Leyen’s satisfaction The agreement was announced in a […]

Europa Radicale is launching a petition calling for Ukraine to be the guest country at the 2027 Turin Book Fair: this is the right response to Russia’s systematic destruction of Ukrainian printing houses, libraries and books. There is another war in Ukraine – one that is inseparable from the first – which targets books and, […]

Emergency summit in the basement of the Élysée Palace. Faced with the rapidly escalating crises in the Middle East and Ukraine, President Macron has convened leaders from across the political spectrum to share intelligence and propose a plan to protect energy infrastructure against the Russian hybrid threat. The summit at the Élysée Palace On 18 […]

A diplomatic triangle that has emerged over the past forty-eight hours reveals something specific about how the power structure in the Middle East is changing. On 16 September, in Beijing, Wang Yi met with the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi. The Chinese statement was couched in the usual diplomatic vagueness, but Wang Yi had added […]

A careless statement by the British Prime Minister has reignited the debate over the Scottish referendum. But what is really causing concern in Downing Street is the pact signed in Wales between the SNP, Sinn Féin and Plaid Cymru: a united front for self-determination which declares that ‘the era of Westminster is over’. Sometimes, in […]

In the 1970s, Václav Havel argued that Czechoslovakia and the Eastern European countries trapped within the Soviet bloc were the beating heart of European freedom. His mentor and spokesperson for the Charta ’77 Movement, Jan Patocka, explained that the philosophical idea of Europe, dating back to the origins of Socratic and Platonic thought, has linked […]