To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have
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Christian Koch and Richard Burchill. I am sure, you have never heard of them. Yet they are people in key positions, who have been able to influence the decisions of European governments on some fundamental issues: the sale of arms to the Emirates and the acceptance that
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The long wave of the Brussels bribery scandal continues to fill the pages of the newspapers – and that is good, because public opinion finally has access to an opaque and dangerous galaxy, such as that of diplomatic lobbying, which has changed the EU’s stance on many
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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world – with iron and fire. According to
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Her name is Hannah Neumann and she is, since 2019, an influential member of the German Green parliamentary group in the European Parliament, where she deals with civil rights and espionage[1]. Specifically, she is part of the group of parliamentarians studying the collaboration between Israel and the
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The tale tells of a French historian, Pierre de Coubertin, who at the age of just 30 organised, in the name of amateurism and universal peace, the first Olympic Games in modern history, in the capital of the same Greece that had invented the Olympics over two
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A lobbyist is one who, for a fee, gets governments to make decisions that, without a powerful incentive, they would never make. This way of influencing politics has always existed, but its transformation into a profession is much more recent. Compared to the rest of the Western
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Rumours were already circulating in the autumn of 2021[1], but in these days the news has become official: AC Milan has changed ownership, and passed into the hands of Investcorp, the Bahraini investment management company[2]. After the long Berlusconi epic[3], after the Chinese parenthesis of the bankrupt
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Increasingly, as the process of globalisation transforms and permeates the life of the entire world, characters almost unknown to the public emerge who, because they occupy key positions in a given political, diplomatic, financial, military and industrial mechanism, become a sort of lever with which wars, alliances
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A handsome young man walking behind Carla Bruni. He accompanies her and Nicolas Sarkozy to important appointments. He discusses money, careers and billionaire contracts. The press discovers him and puts him on the grill until the whole Sarkozy galleon is sunk. But not him. Grégoire Verdeaux is
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