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Monday Briefing 12/10/2026

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Every week, your TiL Monday Briefing 🗞: you better read it with a cup of coffee! ☕️

Headof the Monday Briefing column: Diego de Carvalho. Current writing staff: Alice di Terlizzi, Andreas Manolopoulos, Anouk Lainé, Daniel Dishdishyan, Derinsu Polat, Riccardo de Ambroggi, Ruben Gianzini. Cartoons by Polina Mednikova. The Monday Briefing column was established in its current form in 2021 by Bojan Zeric.

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Monday Briefing 9/10/2023

This week we seek to understand the recent and unprecedented large-scale offensive launched by Palestinian militant groups in Israel on Saturday.  In other news, a 6.3 magnitude devastating earthquake hits Afghanistan, six men accused of murdering Ecuadorean presidential candidate…
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Monday Briefing 2/10/2023

This week we focus on the results of the Slovak parliamentary election. In other news, the White House warns of “unprecedented” Serbian troop buildup on the Kosovo border and the Nagorno-Karabakh government says it will disband. All this and…
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Monday Briefing 25/09/2023

This week we wade through recent developments in the war in Ukraine, in particular Zelenskiy’s address at the UN general assembly. In other news, India-Canada row over Sikh killing causes diplomatic shock waves, Azerbaijan reclaims Nagorno-Karabakh from control of…
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Monday Briefing 18/09/2023

In the first Monday Briefing of the semester, we look at the implications of Kim Jong-un’s visit to Russia. In other news this week, deadly natural disasters have hit Lybia and Morocco, TikTok has been fined €345m for breaking…
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Monday Briefing 15/05/2023

In the last Monday Briefing of the semester we turn the spotlight on Turkey’s presidential election. In other news, Serbia takes on an unprecedented campaign to disarm the country after last week’s shootings, a ceasefire in Gaza ends five…
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Monday Briefing 08/05/2023

This week’s Monday Briefing turns the spotlight on the upcoming WWII Victory Day celebrations in Russia and Ukraine. In other news: the WHO announces the end of the Covid-19 emergency, direct talks between Sudan’s rival factions are being held…
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Monday Briefing 01/05/2023

This week’s Monday Briefing turns the spotlight on the Xi-Zelensky phone call. In other news, Israel’s Remembrance Day is marked by political tensions, at least 55 people have drowned after a boat sank in the Mediterranean, Biden’s re-election bid…
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Monday Briefing 24/04/2023

This week’s Monday Briefing turns the spotlight on the Fox News v Dominion settlement. Some Bocconi students share with us how they celebrate Eid al-Fitr in their respective countries, and Milano Design Week, along with some ducks, makes an…
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Monday Briefing 17/04/2023

This week’s Monday Briefing turns the spotlight on the military clashes that have been reported across Sudan over the weekend. In other news, Macron signs into law his controversial pension reform in France, a US airman is charged in…
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Monday Briefing 03/04/2023

This week’s Monday Briefing turns the spotlight on the outcome of Finland’s general elections. In other news, a WSJ journalist has been arrested in Russia, a grand jury voted to indict Donald Trump, Spain’s PM urged Beijing to discuss peace…
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Monday Briefing 27/03/2023

This week’s Monday Briefing turns the spotlight on Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia: a peacemaking venture or an emphatic display of solidarity with Putin? In other news, in France the survival of Macron’s government hangs in balance, Trump continues…
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Monday Briefing 13/03/2023

This week’s Monday Briefing turns the spotlight on Xi Jinping’s appointment for a third term as China’s president. We, also, analyse in-depth Schlein’s first speech as secretary of Pd. In other news, we cover the events of the Hamburg…
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Monday Briefing 06/03/2023

This week’s Monday Briefing puts the spotlight on the deadly train crash in Greece and the wave of public anger and grief that has sparked in response. We also analyse how Italian newspapers framed differently the news of Elly…
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Monday Briefing 27/02/2023

This week’s Monday Briefing puts the spotlight on the Nigerian Presidential elections, and analyzes in depth Meloni’s clampdown on NGO’s rescue efforts in the Mediterranean. In other news, a deadly Israeli army raid in the West Bank leaves the…
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Monday Briefing 20/02/2023

This week’s Monday Briefing begins by analyzing the situation in Ukraine nearly a year on from the launch of Russia’s full-scale invasion. In other news, a British guard has been sentenced for spying for Russia, the NYT is being…
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Monday Briefing 13/02/2023

This week’s Monday Briefing begins from news of the devastating earthquakes that have struck Turkey and Syria, displacing hundreds of thousands of people. In other news, Zelensky’s trip to Brussels, China’s spy balloons, and of course, it’s been hard…
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Monday Briefing 14/11/2022

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, the Italian-French diplomatic crisis, and much much more.  …
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Monday Briefing 07/11/2022

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 on board to disembark and receive the necessary treatment….
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Monday Briefing 31/10/2022

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 taken office. In other news, Lula’s comeback in Brazil,…
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Monday Briefing 17/10/2022

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 Mao. In other news, the deal between Israel and…
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Monday Briefing 10/10/2022

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+ cutting oil production, the latest on Russia and Ukraine…
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Monday Briefing 03/10/2022

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 other news, a tragedy on a soccer pitch in…
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Monday Briefing 26/09/2022

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 Meloni set to become the first female Prime Minister…
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Monday Briefing 02/05/2022

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 guilt is indicative of an ongoing crisis. In other…
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Monday Briefing 18/04/2022

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 turmoil, a shooting in Brooklyn, natural calamities in the…
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Monday Briefing 11/04/2022

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 the US Supreme Court to the Pakistani Prime Minister’s…
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Monday Briefing 28/03/2022

As we return to class after partials, a local protest in Kabul reminds us of a humanitarian crisis we may have forgotten about. In other news, the latest on the Ukraine war, the Chinese plane crash, the Ethiopian humanitarian…
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Monday Briefing 07/03

The last edition of the Monday Briefing before partials starts from IPCC’s latest, worrying to say the least, climate report to then take us once again to Ukraine as we present a general overview of all latest developments. In…
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Monday Briefing 28/02/2022

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is undoubtedly this week’s most important news and is also at the center of this week’s Monday Briefing edition, but the world has not stopped. As Colombia has legalized abortion in a historic move…
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Monday Briefing 21/02/2022

Gas prices in Europe keep rising as tensions between Russia and Ukraine keep deepening, although with no escalation to conflict yet. In other news, the latest developments in the Canada protests, the stalling of negotiations regarding the nuclear deal…
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Monday Briefing 14/02/2022

As the controversies surrounding the Beijing Olympic Games are far from over, tensions surrounding the Russia-Ukraine crisis remain at the centre of international attention. In other news, US inflation, the dangers of being a journalist in Mexico, Pope Ratzinger’s…
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Monday Briefing 07/02/2022: Winter Wrap-Up

A new semester is on its way, and in this special edition of the Monday Briefing, we present both news that refer to the past week and major global developments from the months in which we were all buried…
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Monday Briefing 06/12/2021

The last Monday Briefing edition of the semester takes us to Ukraine, where the Russian deployment of troops signals a potential invasion of the country. In other news, the economic consequences of the Omicron variant, Turkey’s new finance minister,…
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Monday Briefing 29/11/2021

This week’s Monday Briefing has the complex prerogative of summarizing one of the fullest weeks in recent times. From the tragic shipwreck in the English Channel, in which 27 migrants lost their lives, to the Omicron variant becoming a…
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Monday Briefing 22/11/2021

Spotlight For much of the last few decades, Chile was considered a stable, predictable country; some even went as far as describing it as a success story in a permanently unstable Latin America. Such apparent stability, though, was gruesomely…
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Monday Briefing 15/11/2021

As the images that reach us from the Poland-Belarus border keep painting a desperate picture of institutional failure and geopolitical instability, the impression is that the situation will not be resolved anytime soon. In other news, Daniel Ortega’s tightened…
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Monday Briefing 8/11/2021

As the stark decreases in Milan’s temperature signal the approach of winter and the increased frequency of coursework deadlines signal that the semester’s most intense phase is behind the corner, this week’s Monday Briefing allows us to travel the…
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Monday Briefing 01/11/2021

Spotlight This week’s Monday Briefing reaches you at a time in which global cooperation is being symbolically and substantively reinforced following a couple of years in which it was seemingly being undermined. We are right in between two of…
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Monday Briefing 11/10/2021

This week, Bocconi University had the privilege of hosting the T20 Summit, a 3-day conference in preparation for the G20 Heads of State and Government Meeting that will be held in Rome it the end of the month. Among…
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Monday Briefing 04/10/2021

Between unexpected court verdicts, drug scandals and unlawful campaign financing, it’s been an eventful week for Italy and the world, which will culminate today with the results of the first round of administrative elections in 1,192 municipalities across our…
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Monday Briefing 27/09/2021

Elections have been at the center of this week’s events: between Russia, Canada and Germany, more or less democratic national elections threaten to modify or not modify the international arena, both options being equally worth evaluating in the interest…
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Monday Briefing 03/05/2021

University News Tra i Leoni’s upcoming paper issue is due tomorrow. On the 4th of May, the new issue will be unveiled. The theme we chose for this edition, which will be the 95th of our history, is: Be…
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Monday Briefing 26/04/2021

University News Elebocconi 2021 eventually resulted in Blab success. Achraf Fadhel is the new students’ representative at the Board of Directors, ultimately defeating Bianca Brunori in the electoral duel. Out of 6,000 votes expressed for the BoD, 64.8% were…
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Monday Briefing 19/04/2021

University News #Elebocconi2021 are finally taking place! After a long electoral campaign, Bocconi students will have the possibility to choose their representatives on Wednesday and Thursday. During last week, candidates for the various collegial bodies challenged each other in…
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Monday Briefing 12/04/2021

University News Today, University electoral debates kick off! Hosted by Bocconi TV in collaboration with Tra i Leoni and Radio Bocconi, representatives will start debating about their ideas & programs. The first event is taking place at 15.30 today,…
Monday Briefing
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Monday Briefing 29/03/2021

University News Annalisa Prencipe is the new KPMG Chair in Accounting. Professor Annalisa Prencipe, the Dean of Bocconi’s Undergraduate School, holds the new title of Chair in Accounting of KPMG. This role isn’t related with bookkeeping in Accounting, but…
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Monday Briefing 15/03/2021

University News It’s exam session time! From the entire redazione of Tra i Leoni, we wish you good luck with your partials. As the exam session started, endless queues took place to enter the library on Saturday morning and…
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Monday Briefing 08/03/2021

University News Lessons are being held online until at least March 14th. The Lombardy region has been designated as a “strict orange zone” in terms of Covid-19 spread, and the containment measures include holding University lessons remotely. Study places…
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Monday Briefing 01/03/2021

University News Bocconi alumnus Luca Attanasio, Italian ambassador in Congo, was killed aged 43 during a kidnap attempt along with policeman Vittorio Iacovacci and driver Mustapha Milambo. This week, our entire community was hurt by the loss of one…
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Monday Briefing 22/02/2021

University News Associations on Display starts today! Get to know Tra i Leoni among other associations on February 26th! Bocconi has announced a Covid-19 screening campaign involving all students residences on a voluntary basis, using rapid antigenic swab tests….