Sicurezza energetica e geopolitica dell'energia
When people discuss the Greenland agreement, I get the impression that the debate often revolves more around Donald Trump’s statements than around what the governments actually signed. The distinction is important in this case. On 13 October, Trump once again…
Il 16 ottobre 2026 Trump ha firmato un Executive Order che dà attuazione al Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, approvato il 18 settembre scorso. La vicenda merita qualche precisazione, anche perché credo sia importante distinguere ciò…
Quando si parla dell’accordo sulla Groenlandia, ho l’impressione che si finisca spesso per discutere delle dichiarazioni di Donald Trump più che di ciò che i governi hanno effettivamente sottoscritto. La differenza, in questo caso, non è marginale. Il 13 ottobre,…
La vicenda del gasolio russo è interessante per una ragione che va oltre la scelta politica di Trump di alleggerire, almeno in questo settore, la pressione su Mosca. Il 9 ottobre 2026 l’Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), l’ufficio del…
Il Graham Act, la decisione di Trump del 9 ottobre 2026 e la politica delle deroghe 9 ottobre 2026 — Analisi giuridico-politica A distanza di appena tre settimane dalla promulgazione di una delle più incisive leggi statunitensi sulle sanzioni contro…
“I have the impression that, even if we handed political decision-makers today the newspaper from next year, many of them would not know what to do with it.” The remark is deliberately paradoxical, but it captures a real problem: the…
I dazi vengono spesso presentati come una deviazione rispetto a una condizione “normale” di libero scambio. Mi sembra una semplificazione che non regge il confronto con la storia economica. Per gran parte dell’età moderna e contemporanea, le tariffe doganali sono…
Cyber operations have become an increasingly important dimension of international security. They may disrupt critical infrastructure, interfere with public institutions, compromise classified information or affect essential services without crossing a territorial border in the traditional sense. For the European Union,…
The United States Congress has approved the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, the most significant legislative package of new sanctions against Russia adopted since the beginning of the second Trump administration. Named after Senator Lindsey Graham,…
The document does not treat security as a self-contained policy field. Instead, security functions as a cross-cutting category connecting defence, borders, critical infrastructure, energy, democratic resilience, artificial intelligence, enlargement and economic policy. 1. European security and defence The clearest passage…
The Islamabad Memorandum of 2026 has been compared to the JCPOA — sometimes as its successor, sometimes as its replacement, sometimes as proof that diplomacy with Iran can work. The comparison is understandable but misleading. The two agreements differ in…
A recent Bank of Italy paper, China Shock 2.0: Structural Drivers and Implications for the Euro Area, argues that the post-pandemic surge in Chinese exports marks a new phase of competitive pressure on Europe. This is not simply a replay of…
Europe 2031 is one of the most stimulating contributions to the current debate on artificial intelligence, technological sovereignty, and Europe’s place in a rapidly changing geopolitical order. Written as a fictional scenario rather than a conventional policy report, it succeeds…
The euro area’s inflation shock of 2022–2023 was not simply a story about prices rising too fast, and what I find most instructive about it lies beyond the macroeconomic data. It was a stress test for monetary policy in an…
A vocabulary used loosely In contemporary legal and political debate, five expressions are made to carry a great deal of weight and are frequently treated as interchangeable: national interest, national security, essential (or fundamental) security interests of the State, public…
Arturo Artom’s La nuova intelligenza argues that we are living through a deep transformation in the way intelligence, work, education, and personal identity function. I chose to discuss it here because the questions it raises touch directly on what I see changing…
The European Commission’s new Communication on European Tech Sovereignty marks a significant shift in the EU’s digital policy agenda, and one that I consider among the most consequential of this Commission’s term. The message is clear: Europe can no longer rely primarily…
Governor Fabio Panetta’s “Concluding Remarks,” delivered on 29 May 2026, paint a picture of a surprisingly resilient global economy shaken by a new energy shock — and point to artificial intelligence as the decisive battleground for Italy’s future. Every year,…
What the IAA is After the Net-Zero Industry Act, the Critical Raw Materials Act, and the Chips Act, it would be easy to dismiss the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA, COM(2026) 100 final) as one more entry in an already crowded…
Financial markets are neither a casino nor a church — and understanding this is, I am increasingly convinced, essential for anyone who studies international law and national security. They are better understood as a distorted mirror in which human beings…
Critical minerals are no longer a narrow industrial issue. They are a structural component of power — the material foundation of batteries, semiconductors, defence systems, and the energy transition. The Memorandum of Understanding signed on April 24 in Washington by…
Una delle sfide persistenti nello studio della sicurezza internazionale è capire come funzioni realmente l’architettura antiterrorismo delle Nazioni Unite — non in teoria, ma nella rete sovrapposta, talvolta ridondante, di organismi che si è sviluppata dal 2001. Le Nazioni Unite…
Che cosa succede quando un attacco militare rivela la fragilità dell’intera architettura energetica globale? Il raid congiunto USA-Israele contro l’Iran alla fine di febbraio 2026 ha risposto a questa domanda con scomoda chiarezza: quella che inizialmente appariva come un’escalation militare…
DECISIONE DEL CONSIGLIO MINISTERIALE DELLA COMUNITÀ DELL’ENERGIA D/2013/03/MC-EnC relativa alla proroga della durata del trattato della Comunità dell’energia
