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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This is a raw and desperate story. It is a story of children abused and torn from their families, victims of unprecedented violence, many of whom died by suicide. It is a story of desperate families struggling for years in vain against the justice system in a
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The new Swedish immigration law is clear: stop the automatic family attainment system. If a family is granted asylum, its children must be integrated as soon as possible. Those who fail to do so go from the frying pan into the fire: the children are handed over
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In many countries, corruption is not prosecuted, resulting in the silent anger of a large part of the population and the ignorance of most. One of the most striking cases is that of Finland, a country in which the political elite is strongly compromised with financial and
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In 1957 the English novelist Nevil Shute published his masterpiece, “On the beach”. There has been an atomic war, the whole of humanity has been exterminated, one last beach remains – that of eastern Australia, which is nevertheless about to be reached by the radioactive clouds that
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