Section: Italy
The World Has Lost Its Compass
By Roberto SavioROME, Jun 3 2019 (IPS) The terrible feeling I had on waking up and seeing the Italian voting results at the recent European elections was that my country was suddenly full of strangers. How could the majority of Italians reconfirm a government which has been the most inefficient in history, quarrelling on everything every single...
Privatization Solution Worse than Problem
In order to make the case for privatizing state-owned enterprises, their real problems were often exaggerated in order to make the case for privatization from the 1980s.By Jomo Kwame SundaramKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 14 2019 (IPS) Privatization has not provided the miracle cure for the problems (especially inefficiencies) associated with the...
“Moscow wants a pan-Orthodox meeting to overcome the Ukrainian crisis”
No Orthodox Church has so far offered certificates of recognition to the new independent ecclesiastical structure established in Ukraine before the recent presidential elections. And this is a sign that the process of recognition of an Ukrainian “autocephalous” Church, independent from the Moscow Patriarchate, does not benefit from the “orthodox...
What´s in a Name? Everything.
By Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 1 2019 (IPS) On March 19, 78 years old Nursultan Äbisjuly Nazarbayev unexpectedly announced his resignation as President of Kazakhstan, referring to the need for “a new generation of leaders”. The same day the speaker of the nation´s parliament was appointed as interim president, awaiting presidential elections...
Europe under Siege: Collusions, Dugin and Bannon
By Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM / ROME, Mar 18 2019 (IPS) EU Parliament elections take place every fifth year and votes have steadily been decreasing. In the last 2014 election, the overall turnout was 42.54 percent of those entitled to vote, in some nations it was just around fifteen percent. Nevertheless, results will not only be eagerly awaited by...
The Wall: Thirty Years Ago European Walls Were Destroyed, but Others Are Being Built
By Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM / ROME, Feb 25 2019 (IPS)On January 25, 2017, the Trump administration signed Executive Order 13767, instructing the Government to begin new constructions and replacements of walls between the US and Mexico. From December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019, the federal government was partially shut down due to President...
Munich Security Conference – Old Question Marks in the Shadow of the Anthropocene
SIPRI Director on Armament and Disarmament Dr Sibylle Bauer discusses the future of arms control at the Munich Security Conference.By Dan SmithMUNICH, Germany, Feb 20 2019 (IPS)This year’s Munich Security Conference (the MSC), held on 15-17 February raised many questions but didn’t have the answer. It was not a happy and certainly not...
Orthodoxy, the “Ukrainian schism” turns into a political match
The independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church has just seen the light, and is already being called in the match for the uncertain Ukrainian presidential elections scheduled for 31 March next. The outgoing president Petro Poroshenko co-starred and was a decisive sponsor of the entire process that ended on 6 January with the attribution of the “Tomos”...
A New Spectre is Haunting Europe
Roberto Savio is founder of IPS Inter Press Service and President EmeritusBy Roberto SavioROME, Jan 17 2019 (IPS)After Teresa May’s defeat in the British parliament it is clear that a new spectre is haunting Europe. It is no longer the spectre of communism, which opens Marx’s Manifesto of 1848; it is the spectre of the failure of...
The Pope and the Orthodox “thorns”
Pope Francis’ next trips on the agenda are fatally destined to cross the storm that is rocking the Orthodox Churches of Byzantine origin. A storm so far concentrated in Ukraine, but that could soon widen sucking into its vortex other lacerations – latent or acclaimed – already marking the body of the whole Orthodoxy…....
