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Queen Mate

Johnson's advice was illegal but the Queen still approved it. The Scots are asking her to resign while English constitutionalists stand up for her

Italy back in Europe

Together, Roberto Gualtieri and Paolo Gentiloni can help Italy understand that deficit spending is not a budget. Reforms and open dialogue with the EU are solutions

Erdogan's last war

The sudden yet not unexpected Turkish military intervention in Syria has finally triggered dismay among world public opinion. What has changed compared to the past?

The ‘Chinese Turks’

Despite always fighting for the rights of the Uyghurs, Ankara at present is being very careful not to upset trade relations with China

Rise and fall of the AKP

The Erdogan era featured an economic boom and landslide electoral victories. The economic and financial crisis opens up new scenarios for Turkey’s political future

Dangerous alliances and brotheroods

Erdogan’s Turkey, having made peace with its Eastern and Islamic identities, Is now pandering to historic enemies none too popular with its Western allies

Sultan Erdogan’s time is slipping away

The defeat of the Presidential party in Istanbul where Erdogan used to be mayor may indeed mark the beginning of his slow decline

The old and the new in the CHP

From the ‘defensive nationalism’ of the Nineties to the recent victories in Istanbul and Ankara: the strategies of a party that is trying to win over the AKP’s electorate

Turchia, parte l'operazione Eufrate

La mossa di Erdogan per indebolire le forze curde. Trump avvia il ritiro delle truppe Usa

Desperately seeking a reliable left

In Germany traditional parties are crumbling, the Greens and the Right advance: the left-leaning electorate is bewilderd and has no valid political recipes

Dark clouds forming east of Berlin

Germany has sponsored the development of Eastern Europe, but now, with its growing economies and nationalisms, the East is looking to the West but not to the European Union

VAT and the "white knight"

The real economy is flagging, even though interest rate savings have been extended: to block the VAT increase a rabbit needs to pulled out of a hat somehow…

A drawn out status quo

There’s an urgent need for radical structural reform to add new zest to a country that is certainly not devoid of capacity, intelligence and competence

The League’s skew whiff leadership

The complex interactions between the European Union and the Italian League. An analysis of the anti- European narrative promoted by Matteo Salvini

Preparing the succession

More than half of germans are still in favour of the Chancellor, but many believe her long farewell is stifling Berlin’s politics

Angela, the end

The Chancellor’s reluctant leadership in Europe has us hopinge that once she leaves the stage we may receive an unexpected yet essential boost to the european integration process

Skopje chiama Bruxelles

La prospettiva europea della Macedonia del Nord non si avvista: problemi di politica interna si sommano a una Ue distratta.

Turkey-Qatar: the reasons behind an alliance

Turkey-Qatar on one side, Saudi Arabia and UAE on the other, competition between them tilts power within Sunni Islam and the Middle East. The third player, the West, has little to say

 
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