Europe has no friends. On the contrary: as we have seen in the last ten months, it is the fat cow to be slaughtered at the slaughterhouse of a global crisis – ecological, economic and social – for which no one has any solutions, except that, precisely,
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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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn’t. Like the attempt by several of Europe’s biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues
Read more →Until a few years ago, criminals hid their illegal business and the resulting income in tax havens close to their homes, where clients, lawyers and bankers spoke the same language: Zurich, Amsterdam, Vaduz, Monte Carlo, Luxembourg, Gibraltar, Lugano, Panama[1]. Then the Egmont Group[2] was born, and with
Read more →Until 2017, Italy and Germany exported goods and services to Iran for around 2.6 billion Euros (Italy) and 1.5 billion Euros (Germany)[1]. This is because, based on the rules of the “Joint Comprehensive Action Plan“, signed on July 14, 2015 by the European Union, China and the
Read more →As the saying goes, there is no one more radical than a convert. Mohamed Louizi is a clear example of this: According to his own biography, he began his career as an activist[1] (in 2002) as a member of the UOIF (Union des Organizations Islamiques de France):
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