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Gianfranco Baldini - 21/05/2013
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One of the crucial instruments of the British parliamentary system is the institution of the Whip, that is, a sort of group leader with full powers to ensure that the MPs vote in a way that is compliant with the party’s directives. There are (read more) Gianfranco Baldini - 21/05/2013A government with a strong pro-European connotation and an articulated as well as ambitious diplomatic agenda: this is the profile that the PD-PDL executive chaired by Enrico Letta appears to have. Formerly Minister for Community Polciies in 1998-99, (read more) Giulia Guazzaloca - 20/05/2013He who upon entering the Élysée was labelled “Monsieur 75%,” for the contested proposal to tax income over one million Euros at a rate of 75%, today risks being defined that way to indicate his level of unpopularity.
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Last Comments - From the World

The pundits have long been warning that terrorism on US soil might come from a domestic matrix. Obama’s vigorous war on terrorism, resorting to drones and a coolly calculated assassination campaign, has decimated the Al Qaeda leadership and its (read more) Mario Del Pero - 06/05/2013Back in 2001, when the then President of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Jim O’Neill, coined the term BRIC – an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India and China (later an ‘S’ for South Africa would be added) – many shook (read more) Michele Marchi - 29/04/2013The event presented complicated features right from the beginning. In February 2012 the marines Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone killed, probably mistaking them for pirates attacking their ship, two Indian fishermen and the New Delhi (read more) Giulia Guazzaloca - 02/04/2013

Last Comments - Economy / Institutions

On 2 April 2013 the Cypriot government adopted, two weeks after the closure of the banks, measures to deal with the banking crisis which broke out at the start of the year, and the chronic deficits in the public accounts and in the foreign accounts. (read more) Gianpaolo Rossini - 08/04/2013On the occasion of the European Council on 14 and 15 March 2013, Mario Monti, the last illustrious victim of the austerity policies implemented on a broad scale across the Old Continent, uttered a sort of political will underlining, before the (read more) Riccardo Brizzi - 22/03/2013For just over a month Dutch finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem has been ensconced at the head of Eurogroup, taking over from Jean-Claude Juncker. Born 1966, degree in agronomy, left-winger Dijsselbloem has little enough experience as a minister (he (read more) Giulia Guazzaloca - 11/03/2013

Last Comments - Elections / Referendum

The success of the UK Independence Party at the local British elections on 2nd May went beyond all expectations. Farage’s party actually got 23% of the votes, just behind the Labour Party (29%) and breathing down the necks of the Conservatives (read more) Gianfranco Baldini - 09/05/2013Given the prolonged birth pangs of any new Italian government after last February’s ‘hung’ election, expectations were pinned on the election of the Speakers to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate: the first official act by the (read more) Giulia Guazzaloca - 19/03/2013Needless to say, the question is rhetorical and there is no International. Fortunately, we might say. But the impact of the success of Grillo’s Five Star Movement (M5S) seems to have exceeded all expectations, and gone beyond the derisive cover (read more) Gianfranco Baldini - 07/03/2013

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