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  The European Union economy is doing poorly. During the past decade, real gross domestic product (GDP) in the EU has grown modestly (about 17 percent), well below the United States and global average (about 26 percent and 32 percent, respectively). The outlook for the future is bleak. The obvious culprits are low productivity growth […]

  In 2018, during his first term in office, Donald Trump implemented the “America First” agenda, introducing new tariffs on various imports. These tariffs hit solar panels and washing machines with rates of 30-50 percent, while steel was taxed at 25 percent and aluminum at 10 percent. The tariffs extended beyond China, affecting imports from […]

On the ‘useless preachings’ of a great liberal thinker. by Raffaele De Mucci (LUISS)   The purpose of this contribution is theoretical rather than historiographical. It aims to offer a reconstruction of some key aspects of Luigi Einaudi’s liberal thought, particularly those that are most relevant to understand Einaudi’s positioning regarding the “great divide” between […]

President-elect Donald Trump’s remarks on purchasing Greenland, as well as reclaiming the Panama Canal Zone and incorporating Canada as the 51st state, caused public consternation globally. The statements – unsurprising due to Mr. Trump’s nature – are widely considered as unbelievable, for some insulting and somewhat mad. Looking more closely, however, it is very probable […]

Quite unexpectedly, Bashar al-Assad’s regime was swept away by the revolutionary Sunni Islamic organization Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) under the leadership of Ahmed al-Sharaa. Until recently, this group occupied a small area in northern Syria around Idlib. It formerly had ties to al-Qaeda, recognized in the West as a terrorist organization, and a bounty was […]