Former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta, now teaching in Paris having stepped aside after his political and personal clash with Matteo Renzi, offers his view of Italy, Europe and democracy.
Recent events would suggest the time has now come for most of the world’s diplomatic establishments to rewrite Middle Eastern geopolitics and revise the details of the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916.
The significant difference in pay and access to leadership positions between men and women still has to be bridged. It’s time for a suffering global economy to mind this gap.
“The world first” should be the slogan of the G7 meeting under the Etna volcano. It’s a world that has become much bigger since the first summit in 1975.
Do G7 meetings still make sense? Or are they just a waste of time? Do these G7 summits have an impact on our daily lives? Or are these summits a bit like New Year’s resolutions, when we make plenty of principled promises only to forget them the next day?