The strained relationship between Rome and Brussels risks weakening both parties’ foreign policy capabilities. To maintain a united front, the European Commission president would be better off extending an olive branch and giving Italy’s pick for commissioner the vice-president

Se c'è una cosa dell'Italia che non mi sta proprio mancando in questa trasferta in India è lo stato pietoso in cui versa l'informazione nostrana

Since the start of my career, I have worked a lot on Chinese economy, and always faced challenges in getting reliable data. Now China has reached unprecedented levels in hiding how things are really going in the country, as The Economist explains here. economist.com/briefing/2024/…

I've just spent one week in India, where every stretch of flat grass is full of people playing cricket. Bangladeshi in Monfalcone, a workforce that allows Italy to retain key shipbuilding capacity, are now banned from playing it in town. From BBC News (World) google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.…

Adesso che ha vinto il secondo Slam dell'anno portando di nuovo l'Italia in vetta al tennis mondiale, spero che nessuno osi più criticare Sinner per aver saltato le olimpiadi

Russian imperialism.

Well done Spain, trains are vital to Ukraine: this also raises the question of inward FDI screening within the EU itself, when a common system to check third countries' investments is still absent.

Trump's peace plan looks essentially like Putin's one: rewarding Russia for invading Ukraine, allowing it to keep occupied territories, and even forcing Kyiv into a neutrality that would structurally weaken it, leaving it exposed to the next attack. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

It has been an honor to feature in the opening panel of Elara Capital Ashwamedh 2024 in Mumbai to discuss European and Indian perspectives on the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) together with Velina Tchakarova Nilanjan Ghosh, PhD Insightful Geopolitics Subhomoy

Great Foreign Policy piece by my colleague james crabtree: with Chinese overcapacity staying and protectionism in Western countries, Beijing will dump its excess production in developing countries - which are increasingly fed up with cheap Chinese imports. foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/11/chi…

Nella nuova Commissione Von der Leyen, l'Italia ottiene una vicepresidenza esecutiva ma non quella che sperava (Coesione e Riforme al posto di Affari Economici). Del resto succede se come governo e partito di maggioranza non voti a favore della nuova presidente.

Many of Global Gateway's flaws (a good idea poorly implemented on the ground) are related to the initiative being part of development logic instead of economic security and trade leverage. Placing it again under INTPA means VdL has learned little from the last three years.

Good to see that after some reflections, IMF is not going back to business as usual with Russia. Also, with Russian authorities classifying almost all economic data, the mission would have largely been pointless, only helping the Kremlin's pr. ft.com/content/8d4060…

Arctic LNG2 is Russia's only way into future gas markets, and Moscow is trying the same strategy of oil to evade sanctions. This is proving more difficult with LNG, and swift US actions are severely restricting the number of willing customers. Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/features/…

✨ Honored to have delivered a keynote and participated in the opening panel at the Elara Capital Ashwamedh India Dialogue 2024 in Mumbai, thanks to an invitation from Garima Kapoor and her team. 🎤 My keynote addressed the geopolitical and geoeconomic challenges surrounding the

What would Europe's sanctions options be if China invades Taiwan? In this ECFR brief I outline why the EU has more leverage against Beijing than it looks, how the bloc could curb sanctions evasion and what China's sanctions-proofing means for G7 allies 👇 ecfr.eu/publication/ha…

This is the ultimate confirmation that we are truly living in unprecedented times

Unsurprising, both because there's no shared BRICS international stance apart from resentment over Western-dominated order (with no agreement on the alternative) and because India has to balance between historic support for Palestine, ties with Israel, and new Gulf connections.

"Reconfiguration des équilibres démographiques mondiaux" Une carte du prochain atlas géopolitique édité par l'École de Guerre #LeCartographe #Démographie

Russian LNG plant sanctioned by the US struggles to find buyers 🇷🇺⚠️ 🚢 A vessel (with an Arctic LNG 2 cargo) is offloading to a storage unit in Russia's far east 🙅 While a shadow fleet of vessels began shipping the fuel in August, none have landed at another country’s port