Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa remains an immense open-air laboratory of what Africa could be and what, unfortunately, it still is. Certain choices made by Nelson Mandela in the name of the hope of integration have created undesirable and certainly unpredictable side effects.
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The war in Eastern Europe erases, in the perception of the individual, what is happening locally, in countries considered to be extremely neighbourly. Yet it is precisely in these countries that changes are taking place that are altering the history of the entire planet. In Africa, for
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What happened to Iceland’s financial system after the 2008 sinking, when the country was struck by an iceberg that destroyed the entire economy overnight[1] ? How is it possible that a nation of less than 400,000 inhabitants, but as large as Bulgaria or Greece, managed in the
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The industrial age has cost humanity a profound climate change, which is occurring at an unprecedented rate. This process resembles the rapid changes that have affected the Earth’s ecosystems in its geological past and which – therefore – can help us prophesy and direct future choices. Or,
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The fact that modern lobbyists can act anywhere undisturbed, they have become, in this century, fearsome competitors for the ‘old’ smugglers and arms dealers, who were forced into risky and secret negotiations, reckless banking operations that often ended in colossal scams, to put their own safety at
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An American company, DST Digital Sky Technology, born as a rib of NASA, but financially supported by the Russian oil giant Gazprom and directed by two oligarchs (Alisher Usmanov and Yuri Milner), launches micro-satellites into orbit that allow the planet to be monitored inch by inch, and
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Sweden’s far-right party, Jimmie Åkesson’s Democrats, overwhelmingly won the elections. The Social Democrats still have a relative majority, but the centre-right bloc, if the alliance parties are counted together, has an absolute majority. For the umpteenth time in the last quarter of a century, a populist formation,
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There is a large, forgotten island in the Baltic Sea, so large that it has freshwater rivers flowing into a sea, which is unique because of its mixture of salt and freshwater, bordering nine different countries in the Baltic Sea[1] with a total of 90 million people[2]:
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The series of articles published in collaboration between Gli Stati Generali and IBI World is really starting to hurt. On 28 June, in Brussels, the General Meeting of Shareholders of Nyrstar NV (a mining company about which we wrote in January – https://ibiworld.eu/en/nyrstar-the-agony-of-the-giant-in-the-claws-of-trafigura/) is taking place: a
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The European Court of Human Rights has so far condemned Norway in 13 cases under the European Convention on Human Rights. These are cases involving the Norwegian childcare system, and they are not all: there are at least 20 other cases pending before the European Court of
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