Reading time: 9 minutes This week’s Monday Briefing starts from the US midterm elections, with the Democrat’s surprisingly strong showing. In other news, Elon Musk’s moves on Twitter, Meta’s job cuts, latest in Ukraine, [ … ]
Monday Briefing 07/11/2022
Reading time: 8 minutes This week, the Monday Briefing starts from the migrant crisis intensifying in Southern Italy, where two NGO ships are waiting for the permission to allow the several hundreds migrants still [ … ]
Monday Briefing 31/10/2022
Reading time: 7 minutes Happy Monday and happy Halloween. This week’s #MondayBriefing starts from the new British prime minister and the certainly not easy challenges that he has to face now that he has [ … ]
Monday Briefing 17/10/2022
Reading time: 7 minutes This week’s Monday Briefing starts from China’s congress, in which Xi Jinping is expected to further consolidate his power and become the most long-lived leader in the country’s history since [ … ]
Monday Briefing 10/10/2022
Reading time: 7 minutes For this week’s Monday Briefing, we start by reordering the events in Iran to understand what is really happening. In other news, Elon Musk being set to buy Twitter, OPEC+ [ … ]
Monday Briefing 03/10/2022
Reading time: 7 minutes This week’s Monday Briefing starts from the Brazilian election, that delivered no clear winner and for which a second round, with Lula and Bolsonaro facing off, will be needed. In [ … ]
Monday Briefing 26/09/2022
Reading time: 7 minutes This year’s first Monday Briefing comes in a pretty convoluted time period. We start from the results of the Italian elections, which were clearly won by the right-wing parties, with [ … ]
Monday Briefing 02/05/2022
Reading time: 7 minutes As the semester is going towards the end and the exam session is approaching, this edition of the Monday Briefing takes us first to Myanmar, where a new sentence of [ … ]
Monday Briefing 18/04/2022
Reading time: 7 minutes As we have entered Spring Break, this week’s Monday Briefing brings us to Ethiopia, in the middle of a conflict that we may be neglecting. In other news, Pakistan’s political [ … ]
Monday Briefing 11/04/2022
Reading time: 6 minutes As spring seems to be officially among us, this week’s Monday Briefing, as usual, takes us around the world. From European dependence on Russian gas to the French election, from [ … ]