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After a night of bilateral talks, the difficult negotiations on the next seven-year budget of the European Union continue, while the Commission unveils an...

21/02/2020

The European Commission has put forward a new strategy for enlargement in the Balkans, with greater involvement of member states. Will this be...

12/02/2020

At the Berlin Conference on Libya, Germany, Russia and Turkey agreed on a common strategy aimed at lessening the conflict in the country through...

21/01/2020

Our dear Fabrizio Saccomanni, Vice President of IAI and former Minister of the Economy, passed last Friday. Fabrizio was a dear friend, his partnership with IAI dates back to the late 1970. We...

14/08/2019

The European Parliament has confirmed Ursula von der Leyen as new Commission president with 383 votes. The former German defence...

06/08/2019

Friday's attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, just outside the Strait of Hormuz, where about a fifth of the world's energy traffic...

20/06/2019

EU climate policy is a key priority for next week’s European elections. Yet, EU reforms and climate action do not necessarily go hand in hand. The debate on the...

16/05/2019

14% of the world's population lives in sub-Saharan Africa, but also 60% of the people on the planet who do not have access to electricity. Starting out from the...

03/05/2019

There are many constraints on the development of a European political space, however the mobilisation of the nationalist right might give the current ...

24/04/2019

Rome welcomes Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede, an icon of the struggle against climate change to protect the planet. After attending the...

19/04/2019