What is happening in the country — Since midnight on June 30, Israel has been ruled by a new prime minister, namely Yair Lapid. He heads the Yesh Atid party, which represents the second largest political group in the Knesset with about 14 percent of seats. This change is part of a rotation agreement sanctioned with the…

Sweden and Finland will now join NATO — Turkey has finally withdrawn the veto announced formerly by its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was openly against the accession of Sweden and Finland to the Atlantic Alliance. In recent weeks, he had in fact pronounced various political and ideological claims, which had made necessary for world leaders to start…

Trying to reach a European agreement — At the table of the summit convened to formalize the start of Ukraine’s accession path to the European Union, the Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi exposed himself with regards to a key issue for Europe, namely a price cap for gas. Before the European Council, the head of the government…

Russia: from the ruble to Western sanctions — Are sanctions against Moscow really working? Why is the ruble getting stronger? There are many questions that can be asked today, trying to analyze the economic and geopolitical situation that is currently taking hold. However, one particular event caught my attention. On 11 March it took 120 rubles to buy…

Living my student life — It’s June. Being a university student in Italy, it’s exam month. Spare time is thus very short and the days pass on the books. However, even in the darkest days, it is necessary to find some beauty, even if it is hidden. …

The recent intervention by the European Court of Human Rights — In extremis, last night, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) blocked a plane from the United Kingdom to Rwanda, whose aim was of transferring a group of asylum seekers to the African country. This is a setback for the UK, which still boasts of having abandoned European rules following…

Let’s easily analyze ECB monetary policy and its consequences — For the first time in 10 years, the European Central Bank has announced a rise in interest rates in order to combat inflation. It is the consequent reaction to the long period of price increases, produced or aggravated by the war in Ukraine, which mainly concern the goods that Europe…

The new European directive — The European Union has finally reached an agreement on the minimum wage. The proposal for a provision on this topic began two years ago at the initiative of the European Commission, but only today, after a marton negotiation started at 19 pm yesterday -Monday 6 June- and ended this morning…

What Vladimir Putin has proposed to the head of the African Union Macky Sall — On Friday 3 June, the head of the African Union, Macky Sall, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Russian city of Sochi, in order to plead the continent’s fears about the food crisis that seems to be on the verge of unleashing worldwide. This terrible prevision is mainly…