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Paolo Gentiloni, European Commissioner for the Economy and former Italian PM, issues thinly veiled warnings about Italy’s inability to deliver on its post-pandemic recovery plan. The expert economist Granfranco Polillo gives his readout

Italy and France both have strong relations with Egypt, but Paris proved capable of ignoring Italian (and European) uneasiness on human rights to further its own interest. Professor Alessia Melcangi (Atlantic Council) examines the interconnected dossiers

Un paper del prestigioso think tank Carnegie Endowment for International Peace delinea le aree di convergenza tra Ue e Usa. Digitale, 5G e ambiente, ecco i nodi da sciogliere

Accordo all’ultimo minuto fra Ue e Regno Unito alla vigilia di Natale, ora la Brexit è realtà. Esultano Johnson e von der Leyen, ma oltre la Manica già scoppiano le polemiche sul programma Erasmus da cui Londra sarà esclusa. Il focus dell’Ispi sulle conseguenze per l’Italia

Following concerns from Italian and American intelligence agencies over Chinese technology, Italy’s data protection regulator called out the popular video sharing app for failing to protect its users’ data, especially those who are underage

Formiche held an online talk featuring ambassador Piero Benassi, diplomatic advisor to Italy’s PM and key organiser of the G20 and COP26 global conferences. From multilateralism to global recovery, green commitments and commerce, here’s how Italy intends to drive the action

Hosted online by Formiche.net, several experts and policymakers from both sides of the Atlantic debated digital transformation, tech geopolitics, regulations, and more. Aside from their differences, they acknowledged why Washington and Brussels can (and should) cooperate on tech

On one hand, Europeans distrust Chinese tech; on the other hand, the transatlantic relation in the fields of digital technology is stunted. The world risks splitting in three cyber spheres, but Europe’s Gaia-X project could be an antidote to that. Jean-Pierre Darnis, associate professor of International Relations at Université Côte d’Azur and scientific advisor at the Italian Institute for International Affairs (IAI), explores what lies ahead in the geopolitics of cloud computing.

In Brussels, the idea of “strategic autonomy” is thrown around quite a lot, but we mustn’t allow digital domain to become hostage of protectionist thinking. Dita Charanzová, Vice President of the European Parliament, argues why that would be dangerous for the future of the Union

The minister of Defence, Lorenzo Guerini, the chairman of the EU military committee, Claudio Graziano, and the president of Leonardo, Luciano Carta, clarified Italy’s position on EU Defence: it has to strengthen Nato’s European pillar. They convened with experts, decision makers and the US vice-ambassador