Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio, who also leads the populist coalition government’s left-wing Five Star Movement, hit at one of the structural roots of large-scale illegal African migration to Europe by declaring that it’s partly because “some European countries like France never stopped colonizing Africa in their heads”, elaborating that “there are dozens…
The Empire’s European castle of vassals is crumbling. Right in front of our eyes. But Nobody seems to see it. The European Union (EU), the conglomerate of vassals – Trump calls them irrelevant, and he doesn’t care what they think about him, they deserve to be collapsing. They, the ‘vassalic’ EU, a group of 28…
With Allied armies pushing ever northwards through the “tough old gut” of Italy, and German forces pulling out, Benito Mussolini took a long look at the situation before departing Milan on 25 April 1945. It was, fittingly, Italy’s Liberation Day as the despot fled Milan in his red Alfa Romeo, with long-time mistress Clara Petacci…
The concept of the EU might have worked, but still only might have, if a neverending economic boom could have been manufactured to guide it on its way. But there was never going to be such a boom. Or perhaps if the spoils that were available in boom times and bust had been spread out among…
About 75 years ago in Italy the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini fell, leaving an imprint on the fate of this country and partly the course of world history On the night of July 25, 1943 in Rome, in the Palazzo Venezia, the fate of Benito Mussolini, who had ruled Italy since 1922, was decreed,…
Sunday’s Paris series of meetings of key world leaders, including a probable Trump Putin, secret or otherwise, meeting, will inevitably take place, while marking the 100th anniversary on the 11th hour of the 11th month, of the end of the First World War, will be meetings heavy on irony. Starting with the fact that in…
