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What will happen if the sale of French nuclear energy to Europe is stopped?

14Nov

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Europe, France, Italy, UK

What will happen if the sale of French nuclear energy to Europe is stopped?

French Electricity - Usina Dampierre-en-Burly, France. Photo by Reuters By Bárbara Daguer and Gabriela Delgado France is responsible for the second largest production of nuclear energy in the world, second only to the United States (FIEP, 2011). Explaining in a simple way, energy comes from the nucleus of atoms, being the smallest particles of any matter. Depending on the element used, the formation or destruction of a particle releases enormous amounts of energy. About 70% of the energy base of this country located in Western Europe is originated by atomic energy (DW, 2022). Despite being considered an extremely clean energy, for not releasing CO2 and no toxic waste, some European countries are choosing to ditch nuclear power, due to the tests...

The strain on relations between Italy and Russia

26May

By Center for European Studies and BusinessNo Comments

Europe, Italy, Russia

The strain on relations between Italy and Russia

Article written by Karen Laura Feliciano and Laura Cariolin As the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine worsens, the European Union has asked its member countries to apply sanctions against Russia. One country that was heavily affected by making this order was Italy., since she had strong commercial relations with the Russian country, generating a crisis in the distribution of various services and products. One of the most affected services are those related to European energy distribution., which mainly affects the Italian territory, which had Russia and the former Soviet countries as one of its biggest energy suppliers. Thus, it is possible to identify disturbances in their relationships. in the foreground, It is necessary to understand the ancient partnership between Russia and Italy..

30Nov

By Center for European Studies and BusinessNo Comments

Europe, Italy, Vatican

Italy and Vatican on COP26 (Pre-COP 26)

Por Luiza Minuci and Patrizia Setton We dias 30 from september to 02 of October, the Pre-COP took place in Milan 26, meeting that preceded the COP 26, UN climate conference, in progress between days 1 e 15 november of 2021 in the city of glasgow. With the beginning of the COP 26 at the beginning of november, ministers from different countries gathered in Italy for Pre-COP26 to discuss how to resolve some important issues and prepare them for the meeting. Thus, Pre-COP was jointly organized by the governments of Italy and the United Kingdom, which will host the next COP, with the aim of establishing the means to achieve positive results in Glasgow, place where it will be held. It was also presented, an appeal (Joint Appeal) idealized by the Vatican leader, what an encora visa...

12Oct

By Center for European Studies and BusinessNo Comments

Europe, Italy

Italian economic growth after Covid-19

By Luiza Minuci and Patrizia Setton After more than a year of pandemic, Italy shows signs of economic growth, despite being the first European country to present cases of Covid-19 and its histories regarding its public debt and unemployment. The country has been experiencing periods of low GDP (Gross Domestic Product) since the global financial crisis of 2008/2009, in which he contracted in more than 5% and only signaled an improvement in 2015, e, even so, did not allow for high growth, keeping the data in the range of 4%. The drop in the country's GDP was further aggravated by the Covid-19 crisis, that made the Italian economy - as well as the world -, froze. In this situation, in 2020, the IMF estimated a loss of 10,5% in the Italian Gross Domestic Product, after a historic recession...

28Jun

By Center for European Studies and BusinessNo Comments

Europe, Italy

'Ndrangheta: far beyond crime

the mafia as a whole, emerged in southern Italy in the medieval period. However, Something similar, is still visible today: the activity of these criminal organizations being one of the great security and public order problems faced by national states. An important attempt to combat this type of crime in the region, was Operation Clean Hands (Clean hands) in 1992, succeeded, but definitely not, and legal and criminal instances were transmuted and equipped more severely to fight the mafia system, allowing Italian justice to detain, tried and convicted hundreds of members of criminal organizations. Even with the harsh reaction of your bosses, the mafia wore out a lot in this process and found itself stripped of its former prestige. N...

Draghi's challenging to-do list in Italy

3May

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Europe, Italy

Draghi's challenging to-do list in Italy

Mario Draghi (Photo: REUTERS/Yara Nardi) Italy is experiencing a health crisis with the serious effects of Covid-19 on people's lives and the economy. The pandemic was not enough, political instability imposes itself as an obstacle to the country's future and it is in this context that economist Mario Draghi, former head of the European Central Bank (BCE), which saved the debt-stricken Eurozone, accepted the invitation of the Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, to form a government of national unity after the crisis generated by Conte's resignation, becoming the country's prime minister. Stimulating the stagnant Italian economy is a challenge for politicians who preceded him in office – but ended up disappointing. Like this, he is the best option - a politician with an extraordinary capacity for execution and an excellent reputation ...

6Apr

By Fausto GodoyNo Comments

China, South Korea, Spain, U.S, Europe, Italy, Japan

Confucius and the Corona Virus

A man stands in a nearly empty street during the Chinese New Year holiday this week in Beijing, China. Getty Images Polemizando... Pointed times ours, of controversies, “fake news”, antagonisms and, about everything, of a lot of incomprehension. Locked at home, I read the article - "A global war" - that the chronicler Lourival Sant´ Anna published in Estadão do dia 29/03 regarding the divisions between countries as to the different ways in which they are facing the tragedy. He made the following observation about how East Asia is managing to curb the epidemic faster than the West: “... there was no need to force anything: common sense prevailed among the population and its religious leaders, who could not resist suspending their activities ”... Why is this happening? East...

And the ship goes (III) - Xi Jinping and the Second Summit of the New Silk Road

30Apr

By Fausto GodoyNo Comments

Asia, Austria, Chile, China, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Myanmar, Peru, Portugal, Russia

And the ship goes (III) - Xi Jinping and the Second Summit of the New Silk Road

Closed yesterday, in Beijing, the II Summit of the “Belt and Road Initiative” - the “New Silk Road” - the most ambitious project of this century, according to many analysts, for the realignment of the planet's geo-economy / geopolitics. As you recall, launched in 2013, por Xi Jiping, your goal is to create an economic belt, technological and cultural link uniting Asia with Europe and Africa, thus expanding the layout and scope of the original Silk Road, that drawn by the Chinese during the Han dynasty (check. II a.C / II d.C), was the great corridor through which goods from the East reached Europe. It's broken, that lasted until the Turks took Constantinople in 1453, was, as we know, the greatest commercial and civilizational link in history. The first “Road ...

The ship goes (II)… or visited from Xi Jinping to Europa

1Apr

By Fausto GodoyNo Comments

China, Europe, France, Italy

The ship goes (II)… or visited from Xi Jinping to Europa

Xi Jinping has just returned to China after a “seduction” trip to Italy and France in an attempt to convince the two governments to integrate their ambitious project to unite Asia with Europe and Africa in the reconstitution of what was the greatest integration route economic and civilizational history of humanity: the Silk Road. As we know. the “Road and Belt Initiaitive” of your inspiration, supported by the trillions of dollars of reserves that the PRC has to carry out the project, seeks to consolidate the dream of the Chinese, for intercontinental integration, turning the Chinese economy into the driving force behind post-industrial geoeconomics. She goes “in tandem” with her other project, equally ambitious, o plano “Made in China 2025”, which elected ten cutting-edge sectors to elevate the Republic..