“I’m willing to take a personal risk and we need to do the right thing, because history will judge us”

Respect. Also glad that Europeans have found another 7 Patriots.

👏 Approaching the end of day 1 of our executive training course on #EU #sanctions .

🔷 What's their economic impact on #Russia ?
🔷 What are the new trends in EU sanctions policy?
🔷 How to make them effective while respecting fundamental #rights and general principles of #law ?

This by Draghi on Europe’s competitiveness is rigorous, focused and refreshingly clear even to a non-economist like myself. Kudos to ⁦GEG⁩ and ⁦Le Grand Continent⁩ for publishing. geopolitique.eu/en/2024/04/16/…

New office set-up, to get visitors in the mood.🇺🇦

You don’t need to cherish Copenaghen as I do to mourn this. When a 400yo treasure goes up in flames, we all should.

Denmark’s historic stock exchange goes up in flames via Financial Times on.ft.com/3W7iyCl

Brand new trains by Austrian railways ÖBB. Featuring this little number to watch and wirelessly recharge your phone.
Between the view outside and that inside, the ride between Munich and Bologna has never been cooler.

Leaders at war dissing each other on social media. How undignified.

According to EU_Eurostat Italy is 2nd to last in Europe, just before Romania.
Less than 20% of 25-74 yo have a tertiary education. Only little over 20% of males aged 25-34.
What a miserable waste of talent.
euronews.com/next/2024/04/1…

Thousands of years and it never gets old. #Delphi

What scenario for Ukraine in 2030? South Korea or West Germany but without American troops.
Ivan Krastev doesn’t beat about the bush at #DelphiForum

Nel giorno della sua nascita celebriamo Adriano Olivetti, imprenditore visionario che ha lasciato un'impronta indelebile nel mondo dell'industria italiana. Il suo approccio ha rivoluzionato il concetto di lavoro e di produzione, mettendo al centro il benessere dei lavoratori e…

Post office next door to where I work in Florence.
The beauty of ordinary things in Italy will never cease to amaze me.

This is the norm across the expanded BRICS. Clientelism in exchange for electoral popularism.
How democracies die, or become a precious little perk for 10% of world pop or less.

Indian democracy with east Asian characteristics via Financial Times on.ft.com/4aOTLXP

Remember Alex asking me in an interview whether the Italian PM would make #Ukraine her first foreign trip.
He made it his, and he’s making it count.

New Finnish President Alexander Stubb was just in Ukraine. Today, I heard his assessment of where Russia’s war is heading, how Ukraine is addressing a manpower shortage, and whether Europe can do more and faster to help Kyiv. Part 1 of our conversation

And a crystal-clear counterfactual of why the European Union matters, also to its member states.

Watched #TheZoneofInterest . A chilling and nauseating portrayal of the banality of the Holocaust. Or maybe rather of its grotesque denial. The film imposes you to stay with it, no salvation permitted. That, in this time and age, hits hard.

Say what you want about the past, but this is very effective and refreshing.

The new EUI Global Executive Master will equip participants with the knowledge and skills to navigate today's complex world of trade policy and diplomacy.

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