74 Stories by Arrigo Mazzi
It was easy to dismiss President Xi’s speech at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference on 17 July as another carefully crafted statement about international...
It’s probably a euphemism that Germany is navigating a complex and difficult period. And mainly not because it’s been the third World Cup in...
Politicians love those moments. Declarations, summit photographs, carefully choreographed handshakes and speeches announcing that history has just changed direction. Every opportunity is taken –...
In spite of its bad rep and the regular news about its imminent end, the dollar-based international financial system has so far stubbornly refused...
On May 27, 2026, police officers entered the Madrid headquarters of PM Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE. Under orders from National Court judge Santiago Pedraz, they...
The long-awaited summit between President Trump and President Xi was sold to the public (as usual) with the kind of cautious optimism that appears...
Once upon a time, there was a quaint little idea called Eurovision. The date was 1956. It was in the early days of European...
Just because it’s old, it’s not necessarily bad. At least not in the EU. In a quite recent development, European officials dusted off the...