President Orsini’s comments on Russian gas remain without a concrete plan. Postponing the LNG tender is open to discussion, but reopening Putin’s gas pipelines would require the agreement of Germany, Poland or Ukraine  

The new Irish draft cuts 141 billion from the Commission’s proposal, affecting competitiveness, defence and foreign policy. The ‘Frugal Four’ want to make savings, whilst the ‘Friends of Cohesion’ are protecting agriculture and regional funds. A double-edged short-sightedness that leaves everyone losing out

The Prime Minister is at loggerheads with Istat over its underestimation of GDP, whilst the minister hails the low estimates as a credit to the government.

The two winners have helped to bridge a divide that has run through the discipline for decades: that between microeconomics, which studies the choices of individuals and firms, and macroeconomics, which deals with broad aggregates, from national income to inflation  

“If we do not develop structural, long-term solutions to high energy prices, we risk becoming increasingly at the mercy of emergencies.” Giorgia Meloni once again highlights energy costs as one of the key issues affecting European and Italian competitiveness

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Prize to the two American professors “for the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation”

The scientists stopped off at the M5S headquarters to speak to Conte and Todde. Did they give them a telling-off, given that Sardinia is, in absolute terms, the worst-performing region in Italy in relation to the Pniec targets? Not at all.