by Anna Violante
“If we want peace, we must prepare for war,” wrote European Council President Charles Michel in his press release of 19 March, referring to the need to increase European military aid to Ukraine, and he soon outlined...
by Alessandro De Pascale
Twelve January 2024. News agencies report that Pope Francis has rejected a €1.5 million donation to the Bambin Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome, a private hospital owned by the Vatican that describes itself as “the largest...
by Antonio Michele Storto
The turning point is Monday 21 May 2018. The scene is set in the Busserine district, a collection of dilapidated shanty towns on the northern outskirts of Marseille and a central hub for drug trafficking: undoubtedly...
by Ambra Visentin
The relevant committees of the Duma are preparing a draft law banning the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Russia, as well as criminal liability for requesting the execution of its decisions. This was reported on the website...
By Sara Pieraccioni
Cyprus today remains strongly divided, both politically and in the management of water resources. Since 1974, the southern part, with a Greek majority, with its capital Nicosia and a member of the European Union, is opposed to...
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, NATO has once again become a major player on the world stage. If in fact until recently it had been described by commentators as an organisation in deep crisis, even...
A reportage from Kherson: young artist Daria and her family lived in the city for four months during the unlawful Russian occupation. Kherson has only just been liberated - but the happy ending is not yet on sight for...
By Alice Pistolesi and Giovanni Mennillo from Chișinău
A small country in the heart of Eastern Europe, 930 km of border shared with Ukraine and 450 km with Romania, just over 3 million inhabitants, and still uncertain identity: Moldova is...
By Ambra Visentin
After many months of tension between France and Algeria, President Emmanuel Macron met his counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Algiers from 25 to 27 August. Under the leadership of the two presidents, constitutionally 'commanders-in-chief of the armed forces',...
By Alice Pistolesi
One million people have crossed the Ukrainian border in one week. An enormous, overwhelming and extremely rapid exodus, as emphasised by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, who said yesterday: "I have worked...