Dreaming California - the fifth largest economy in the World

California recently came back to the fifth position in the list of the largest economies in the World, following US, China, Japan and Germany. California’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew $127 billion between 2016 and 2017 to more than $2.7 trillion. Higher than Uk and France. London is suffering the Brexit and the depreciation...

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Who was Marielle Franco?

  I will be honest. I have never heard about Marielle Franco before the 14th of March, the day in which she was brutally killed in a targeted political assassination.   But reading her story made me think. How many brave people are there in the World? I was thinking to the sad story of Giulio Regeni, the Italian...

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No shopping on Sunday! What do you think?

Poland recently approved a law that ban Sunday trading. This means that from today (11th March)  every other Sunday the bans will take place (with the exception of some Sundays before religious holidays).  In Poland the law is the result of the pressure coming mainly by the Church and Solidarnosc, in order to allow employees to...

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Which Italy will we see on Monday?

So here we are! Tomorrow is the Election day in Italy. After 5 years, we will have a new Parliament and a new (maybe) Government. But which is the picture of Italy today? And how will it change since the next week? Whilst from abroad the Italian political arena is a funny show with hilarious characters (see John Oliver video), the...

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Eu & Turkey: ready for a wedding?

At the beginning of February, during a visit in Italy, Erdogan claimed again the will for Turkey to enter in the European Union. The relation between Europe and Turkey are becoming every year worse, especially since the mid-2016 failed coup attempt against Erdogan. And it is the news of few hours ago that the European Union threatened to cancel...

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What a destiny for the Terzani's Turtle...

Have you ever heard about Tiziano Terzani? For many of us Terzani represents the determination to follow your dreams and the freedom of discovering and traveling around the World. He graduated in one of the most prestigious university in Italy (the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies) and he got an excellent job in Olivetti. But...

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Korea united? Just temporary for the Olympic Games

The 38th parallel that devides in two separate states Korea since the end of the World War II in 1945, is one of the most militarized and most sensitive area in the World.  It has represented for decades one of the expression of the Cold War and it is now the line that divides the rich and capitalistic South by the "communist", dictatorship...

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Poland's Holocaust law and the ghosts from the past

The news has been spread everywhere in Europe and not only: Poland’s Senate approved a highly controversial bill on Thursday that bans any Holocaust accusations against Poles as well as descriptions of Nazi death camps as Polish (source The Washington Post). If President Duda will approve it, the law will become effective with...

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Visiting Auschwitz

Today 27th January is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the media, as usual, commemorate the genocide that resulted in the death of an estimated 6 million Jewish people, 200,000 Roma people, 250,000 mentally and physically disabled people, and 9,000 homosexual men by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. I think that the rhetoric...

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How much do the promises of the Italian politicians cost?

This is an important year for Italy: in few weeks the Political Elections will take place. And the electoral campaign already started, with a bunch of unrealistic promises from the opponents.   Renzi, former Prime Minister, is proposing - for instance - the abolition of the tax to the national public broadcasting company...

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Once upon a time there was the Czechoslovakia

At the beginning of January fell the anniversary of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. It happened 25 years ago, when after a political agreement between Prague and Bratislava, there was the creation of Czech Republic and Slovakia (united in the same entity since 1918). It is strange to think about the "Velvet Divorce" now, also remembering...

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Persepolis - what is going on in Iran

Iran is the second largest Country in the Middle East. It also has large reserves of fossil fuels – which include the world's largest natural gas supply and the fourth-largest proven oil reserves. Iran is a major political and religious player in the area and it is normal that when a huge wave of protests affects the whole country like it happened...

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