Reading time: 5 minutes Once a high-performer, always a high-performer? – The German economy is in a state of malaise. Ever since war befell Ukraine, its status quo has been both dreary and depressing. [ … ]
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A new legal framework for the digital world: will the EU policy be effective?
Reading time: 5 minutes While the digital world was evolving towards new limits, EU legislation lagged behind for many years.Now that things are set to change, we ask ourselves whether the current measures will [ … ]
2022 World Cup: When Excitement and Money Win Against Morality and Fairness
Reading time: 5 minutes November 20th has marked the beginning of the globally renowned FIFA World Cup championship and football fans seem to be more ecstatic than ever. With thousands flooding the new Qatari [ … ]
Black Friday, the tip of the melting iceberg
Reading time: 8 minutes Black Friday is much more than the discounts delivered to your inbox or the huge posters inviting you to take your window shopping to the next level. Black Friday is [ … ]
Monday Briefing 28/11/2022
Reading time: 9 minutes This week’s Monday Briefing starts from an overview of Elon Musk’s first month as Twitter Chief. In other news, a UK Supreme Court sentence on the second Scottish referendum, new [ … ]
Armageddon Might Wait
Reading time: 3 minutes Asteroids have entered collective imagination as objects of inexorable destruction; now, they might not be any longer. NASA carried out a mission to deflect an asteroid, and it seems like [ … ]
Monday Briefing 21/11/2022
Reading time: 9 minutes This week’s Monday Briefing starts from the latest in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. In other news, the Cop27 conference, the G20 meetings, an earthquake in Indonesia, a reflection on the world [ … ]
Monday Briefing 14/11/2022
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, [ … ]
Carlo Altomonte upon invitation: the good old days of Europe’s growth model are over
Reading time: 6 minutes EU member States, starting with Germany, have to realize that the good old days of the export-led model are over, and that the new global (dis) order requires the design [ … ]
The fallacy of “Artivism”: Van Gogh x Tomato Soup
Reading time: 3 minutes “What is worth more? Art or Life? Is it worth more than food, worth more than justice? Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection [ … ]