At dusk, with the Acropolis as a backdrop, the U.S. Secretary of State looks to antiquity for a remedy to Europe’s decline and then brings it back to the present: American hegemony. And no, ‘nationalism’ is not a dirty word. We publish the speech that the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, delivered in Athens on 7 October

No Socrates or Plato here, but rather the hero and the superman. The new reactionaries who have taken the place of the honest neoconservatives of the George W. Bush and Dick Cheney era call themselves Straussians – or at least allow people to think so.

Public service broadcasting should be funded solely by the licence fee, without advertising, and produce exclusively public service programmes. It is unrealistic to think that things can change without a radical overhaul

Pension funds can be a useful tool, but you cannot call it ‘pension reform’ when it essentially just decides who will manage savings that workers were already obliged to set aside. Points for consideration

Insulted as a ‘Ciociara’ – a term she does not technically fit under – Meloni reacted with Lazio pride, extolling the illustrious figures of the sub-region whose capital is Frosinone. And despite Dante’s scathing criticism, Bonifacio is no less important than Marcello Mastroianni and Nino Manfredi

Russia is attacking towns both far from and close to the front line; in Kramatorsk, it struck two buses, killing thirty people. However, from the battlefield, Russian prisoners who surrendered during Operation Vivaldi describe their situation, how they fought and why the army will not allow them to withdraw. The stories gathered 

Sefcovic in Beijing to restore balance to trade relations. Also on the agenda are the fourteen European companies (and the two Italian ones) that ended up on China’s blacklist following the EU sanctions against Russia. Iurino (Garnet) speaks out

Investigating magistrate Beatriz Biedma, who has committed the Prime Minister’s brother to stand trial, has joined the proceedings as a civil party in the investigation into the ‘scandal’ surrounding the Spanish Socialist Party. Meanwhile, rumours are beginning to circulate in Madrid about a possible candidacy for Begoña Gomez in the general election on 29 November

Having already been definitively convicted of breaching official secrecy in December 2024, the Court of Cassation has now made Davigo’s conviction final in respect of the charges that had been referred back for a new appeal hearing. The former public prosecutor has been given a (suspended) sentence of one year and three months.

Who wrote to the editor-in-chief, Claudio Cerasa

What was feared is now happening: the war in the Horn of Africa is spreading, and one of the world’s poorest countries is challenging Addis Ababa

This result is the outcome of strategies which, over the years, have significantly narrowed the VAT gap and which the government is continuing to pursue. However, the revenue gained from tackling the informal economy should be used to reduce taxes for those who pay them regularly

The independent Russian publication The Insider has published an investigation carried out in collaboration with Der Spiegel, which reconstructs the Russian intelligence unit responsible for the attack on the Ukrainian aircraft in Germany: the GRU’s ‘Special Tasks Unit’ (SSD), established by 2023 to carry out sabotage operations in Europe

The French government is attempting to quell the protests by promising more funding for schools, whilst Le Pen and Mélenchon are proposing opposing approaches to taxation and public spending. Meanwhile, students continue to demand more teachers, better schools and 10 billion euros

Pensions, out-of-control public finances and political risk. This is how France, grappling with a fiscal crisis, risks infecting the Eurozone

Just as housing has come back into fashion, it is important to avoid any misunderstanding. In the European debate, there is increasing talk of ‘affordable housing’, a broad term which, when translated into Italian, risks lumping together profoundly different realities. Public housing, the ERP managed by the Aziende Casa, is not the same thing as social housing