The European Union and France should not abandon negotiations with the Emirates on the progressive reduction of fossil fuels
Media mentions – ECFR Rome
Ukraine’s invasion and the subsequent energetic crisis have given a new impulse to the EU-Gulf cooperation, still incomplete: green technologies could be the key to transform this partnership
There is a growing likelihood that the final agreement ends up with a “compromise position” about working towards an energy system free of unabated fossil fuels
Qatar’s position as a major mediator has its roots in the early 2000s-then the country developed relations with all Islamists linked to the Muslim Brotherhood
The multipolar world, in this form, does not allow multilateralism, or even nonalignment in the sense of the Cold War, but rather multi-alignment
Timothy Garton Ash comments on key findings of new ECFR survey
Europeans must oppose the expansion of Israel’s land offensive into densely populated southern Gaza, currently home to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons
Since the ‘90s Qatar has managed to be a place where different entities could coexist, then offering itself as useful mediator with the international community, and especially with the US
For Italy, for long a middle power working as a bridge in the Wider Mediterranean, this is about retrieving that connecting capability and use it towards the Global South
Sanctions fill the gap between diplomatic declarations and military interventions, which are particularly costly in humanitarian and financial terms
The Biden-Xi Summit in San Francisco doesn’t evoke the birth of a new G-2, yet it shows that the two biggest rivals in the world of today are trying to contain risks and manage their competition