When Poland‘s state-run oil and gas firm PGNiG signed a 20-year deal for liquefied natural gas deliveries from the US last year and said it would be spending €200 million buying into a project to deliver gas from Norway via...
A decades-old nuclear weapons treaty has now been thrown out by both the U.S. and Russia. After each side declared the other had violated the Cold War era pact, they decided to no longer uphold it. President Trump moved first...
Last January marked the 20th birthday of the euro, launched in January 1999, and so it is a good time to consider whether the euro is doing any good to the citizens of the EU from whom it was created....
Not long ago, the French Finance Minister mouthed off about the “recession in Italy and its threat to Europe“. Italy is technically in a recession, but not by very much. Meanwhile, the European Central Bank (ECB) is sabre-rattling about the...
Cultural relativism has a boundary, and any practice that inflicts cruelty on a child crosses that line. In a landmark ruling, the UK has seen its first conviction for the crime of female genital mutilation (FGM). In February of this...
In the heady days of its territorial expansion across Syria and Iraq, the so-called Islamic State (IS) drew in Western recruits like moths to an incandescent flame. For a group looking to internationalise its bloodthirsty cause, each defection was a...
I have interviewed the agronomist with specific knowledge in the mathematic modelling of the agro-ecosystem, Luigi Mariani, to understand why the “organic” trend is not what it appears. Mariani was a professor of Agrometeorology and Agronomy at the University of...
Our photographer is a finalist in the most prestigious photography award for his reporting in Chad, thanks to the readers of ilgiornale.it When writing the words World Press Photo, you instantly think of the highest standards in photography. The award,...
It was not spectacular, but then EU decisions rarely are. Fudge is often top of the menu in Brussels. But its effects may have long-term consequences both for Europe’s energy sector and its geopolitical position between the US and Russia....
Walking down the streets of Kucova is like taking strides through Albania’s history. A history made of countered invasions, betrayed ideals and shattered hopes. There is all this amongst the ruins of what once used to be one of the...
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