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Italy’s economy has a lot of problems, but the euro is not one of them. Its economic growth has been nil since 2001, just after the euro was adopted, but it is plain wrong to believe that this disastrous result is the consequence of having given the lira up. Like many other countries, Italy can

Cultura

Mi lavavo di notte nel cortile -il firmamento splendeva di rozze stelle.Raggio stellare – come sale su ascia,piena fino all'orlo la tinozza gela.Chiuso con la spranga il portonee la terra in coscienza severa, -impossibile cercare verità più pulitadell'ordito di tela lavata di fresco.Si scioglie

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Dopo quello successo il 17 novembre scorso ad Hannover (rinvio di Germania-Olanda quattro giorni dopo i terribili attentati di Parigi), il calcio deve tornare a fare i conti con la minaccia terrorismo. L'ultima giornata di Premier League è stata guastata da un allarme bomba che ha portato al rinvio

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Dopo quello successo il 17 novembre scorso ad Hannover (rinvio di Germania-Olanda quattro giorni dopo i terribili attentati di Parigi), il calcio deve tornare a fare i conti con la minaccia terrorismo. L'ultima giornata di Premier League è stata guastata da un allarme bomba che ha portato al rinvio

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The winter of our discontent, of our medium-low power frustration, does not end in Egypt with the case of Giulio Regeni but continues dramatically in Libya. At 17:34 GMT on Wednesday, March 2, just hours before the two technicians from Bonatti were killed in Sabratha, an Italian from Misurata sent

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How is life in Syria in the time of the Caliphate? The fate of Raqqa, ISIS's capital, bombed by Russian and French airstrikes, tells a tale that is emblematic of the Syrian war, involving first the fear for the repression from the Bashar al-Assad regime, then the hopes raised by the advancement of

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Russia and the West “have understood the necessity to cooperate in the war on international terrorism.” But, “an agreement is impossible,” because, “each country has its own position and its own attitude towards the different segments of the terrorism issue.”

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In today’s Italy, is it “worth” investing in culture in order to contribute to Italian development? In the past, positive answers to this question have often been a statement of good intentions rather than a program for action.

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Small and strange wars grow, until they become uncontrollable. The worst ones—provided ranking tragedies makes any sense—are those triggered by dramatically wrong calculations. But even more terrible are those where errors are never corrected. In the Arab world, for instance, there had already been

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Markets would benefit a great deal from a ‘single and and triune’ central bank, with heads in Washington, Beijing and Frankfurt. The instability of financial markets—including the preoccupation with the debts of emerging countries—is at risk of becoming an endemic feature of the global economy.

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No surprise: even the reports from the Federal Reserve confirmed that we will still have a dollar without rules, which will cause instability on the financial and exchange markets. Yet, central bankers are not interested in exchange volatility—at least until it becomes a political problem.

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Even the Bank of England (BOE), following the Federal Reserve, announced that for the moment it will not raise interest rates. Central banks, which were supposed to bring the monetary cycle back to normal, have instead started a ‘lowering game’ that, in the long run, has the potential to increase

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Can a central banker who loves to have her hands untied, like Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, be pushed by markets and politics to give herself a rule on interest rates for the next months? This is the question that the Federal Reserve has to answer, beyond yesterday’s (unmade) decision to

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The Greek referendum could be interpreted as the germ of a nationalist political contagion that will destroy the European dream. Conversely, it could be interpreted as a historically cunning move to revive the common project. It is the responsibility of the European leaders reunited today in the