By Ambra Visentin
Tension rises between Bern and Berlin over the war in Ukraine. Germany would like to supply Kiev with 35 mm ammunition for the German Gepard anti-aircraft tank. The crux of the matter is that Swiss munitions were...
Although UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres suggested sending a 'rapid action force' to Haiti earlier this month, the UN remains divided on whether to send an international force to help Haiti after its government made a 'distress call', Euronews...
by Ambra Visentin
Ankara has adopted a complete and brutal reversal of its generous reception policy. In the report by the NGO Human Right Watch, published on 24 October, some 40 testimonies of deportees and relatives allowed its author, Nadia...
By Marta Cavallaro
Although African countries contribute only 4% of global emissions, forecasts show that by 2030 118 million Africans will suffer from severe drought, massive flooding and extreme heat. These past months have been just a small taste of...
By Raffaele Crocco.
The key to the moment, as we stand after 8 months of the Russian 'special operation' in Ukraine, can be found in the words of the Ukrainian ambassador to Rome. Lapidary, Yaeoslav Melnyk repeated that in order...
by Ambra Visentin
France and Mali had a new confrontation at the UN on Tuesday evening. During a Security Council session on Mali's security crisis, Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop reiterated his 'serious' accusations of 'aggression and espionage' against Paris and...
By Alice Pistolesi, Photos by Valentina Ochner. Brussels
Accountability is one of the key words uttered during the meeting for the 'Where did you get your coltan?' project, which brought its demands to a hearing with MEPs in Brussels on...
By Alice Pistolesi, Valentina Ochner (photos) - Brussels
How can wee understand and monitor the supply chain of minerals from conflict zones, from extraction to disposal? This was the big question posed in the European Parliament by a delegation of...
By Ambra Visentin
The day before the meeting of the EU energy ministers in charge of agreeing on European emergency interventions in the energy markets, Germany announced the introduction of its new 'economic defence shield' measure by the end of...
By Maurizio Sacchi.
Starting on October 16th, the 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress is expected to confirm Xi Jinping as Secretary. We discussed this with Simone Dossi* (pictured below, to the right), lecturer at the Department of International, Legal and...
