For years, European common debt was misunderstood as a mechanism for mutualizing past liabilities. This debate is particularly relevant for countries such as Italy, whose high public debt has placed it at the center of… Read More »From Taboo to Strategy: European Common Debt and the Italian Question
In August 2008, when Silvio Berlusconi returned the Venus of Cyrene to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi – or more precisely, handed back a statue taken to Italy during Libya’s colonial period – it signaled that he… Read More »The strange friendship between Italy and Libya
Launched in January 2024 at the Italy–Africa Summit in Rome, the Mattei Plan has become a central foreign-policy plan to Italy’s renewed engagement with the African continent, and portrays Rome as a strategic bridge between… Read More »The Mattei Plan Between Rhetoric and Practice: Nation Branding and the Limits of Italy’s Projection in the Mediterranean
EU-Western Balkans Summit: an increasing desire for Italy is there 28 febbraio 2023 Di Nicasia Picciano The first ever summit between the European Union and the six Western Balkans countries took place in Tirana on the… Read More »EU-Western Balkans Summit: an increasing desire for Italy is there
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