DIE ZEIT: Frau Wagenknecht, is Brexit a danger for Europe? Sahra Wagenknecht: It could also be a wake-up call. Everyone should now be aware that we must change something if we do not want Europe to fall apart. DIE ZEIT: What is wrong in Europe? Sahra Wagenknecht: The great promises of united Europe were peace, […]
“I will study this dumb deal”, a just-elected Trump said in early 2017, at the end of a very quarrelsome conversation with Australian PM Malcom Turnbull, who had mentioned an Obama-era agreement by which Washington has accepted to take and resettle in the US 1,250 Muslim refugees, mainly of Rohingya ethnicity, that where at that time stranded in […]
Laure MANDEVILLE – The state of quasi-civil war, which currently prevails in the US, is it the result of the fact that the country is badly split alonf partisan lines, or is it due to the fear that the Trump phenomenon might mark the beginning of a change of regime? Walter Russell MEAD. – As […]
L’on prétend que, en appelant Matteo Renzi “Matador” pour le féliciter après que son parti avait obtenu 41% aux élections européennes, Mme Merkel aurait fourni la preuve qu’elle n’arrive pas à discerner l’Italie de l’Espagne – Que voulez-vous ? Ces pays du Sud sont tous si différents de la DDR! Mais il s’agit probablement d’une insinuation […]
The UK version of parliamentary democracy has its fault lines, but one of its strengths is that it offers, indeed insists upon, a measured and informed debate on issues of national importance. A basic requirement of MPs is that they act, not as delegates from their constituencies, but as representatives charged with weighing the general […]
In this time of weird reversals, Democrats and liberals who scoffed at Mitt Romney’s 2012 assertion that Russia was our primary adversary have become so convinced of Vladimir Putin’s perfidy, they sound like the Cold Warriors of old. Meanwhile, our incoming president continues to extend the benefit of the doubt to Russia when it comes […]
“Nobody ever loses in Italian politics; I have lost,” said Matteo Renzi, the outgoing prime minister, in reference to the habit of Italian politicians to stay in power regardless of their failures. His concession came an hour after exit polls that all but confirmed his defeat in the constitutional reform referendum. But who voted against […]
L’obiettivo principale della riforma è quello di rendere più rapido il passaggio delle leggi senza l’estenuante gioco di rinvii tra Camera e Senato. Un gioco di rinvii in cui si annidano le peggiori caratteristiche del processo legislativo, con l’introduzione di piccoli cambiamenti destinati a favorire interessi particolari, oppure a rendere poco chiare le leggi in […]
On 16th June this year, a week before the EU referendum, supporter of the ‘Remain’ campaign, was stabbed to death in her parliamentary constituency. On his first appearance before magistrates her alleged murderer was asked to confirm his name and replied simply: “Death to all traitors, freedom for Britain”. It seems that medical issues […]
The only reason my German grandfather survived as a Russian prisoner of war was that he had a beautiful singing voice. He had been drafted into the Volkssturm militia in 1944, during the final phase of the war in which the Nazi party recruited most able-bodied males into the armed forces, regardless of their age. […]