The price of gas is already enough to discourage its use, but the ETS further increases the cost of energy. The EU defends the system partly because of the revenue it generates and partly because of the financial interests linked to the emissions trading market 

Meloni and Frederiksen tabled a joint amendment at the European Council that criticised the mass regularisation programme carried out by Pedro Sánchez’s government. In addition to the Spanish Prime Minister, Emmanuel Macron and other leaders also opposed it. No agreement reached; the text was rejected.

From the Gemelli Hospital, the Pope received a phone call from the Russian president in which he “expressed deep concern over the grave humanitarian situation in the town of Oleshky”. The town is one of the symbols of the Kremlin’s brutality. According to the Interfax news agency, the Russian president replied that the responsibility lies with “the Kyiv regime”.

The mechanism to counter interference by hostile powers deserves bipartisan support. It would send a significant political signal: the government and the opposition jointly recognising that the defence of national sovereignty also depends on the ability to prevent other countries from manipulating the views of Italian
voters

Between 2019 and 2025, seventy American companies are alleged to have transferred nearly $3 million to Pyongyang. Fourteen individuals have been charged by the Department of Justice: two Americans, who have already been arrested, and ten North Koreans, all resident in China and still at large, accused of identity theft to obtain salaries from American companies that had employed them without realising it.