Francesco Ramella

  The widely circulated news that the EU is backtracking on the ban on selling cars with internal combustion engines in 2035 is greatly exaggerated. Rather than a U-turn, it’s more like a slight braking that probably comes too late to avoid the accident. On December 16, 2025, the European Commission proposed to relax the […]

  The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. ‘In the long run we are all dead,’ wrote John Maynard Keynes in 1923. The statement seems well-suited to the environmental policies pursued by the European Union. At the heart of the European Green Deal there is the goal of climate neutrality to be […]

  George Bush, then a presidential candidate, famously said at the 1988 Republican National Convention in New Orleans: “read my lips: no new taxes”. The pledge not to tax the American people further was not kept. In 1990, faced with a growing budget deficit, Bush signed the Budget Reconciliation Act, which included increases of the […]