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“Grazi Cina!” – and roll over Beethoven

17 Mar

With Italy in lock down there’s music on the balconies of Rome’s apartment blocks, but it’s not Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Five days ago the The European Court of Justice fined Italy €7.5 million for ‘illegal’ state-aid to Sardinia’s struggling … Read More »

China, Russia, Covid-19 and the EU

14 Mar

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My January Reads

22 Jan

The Roaring Twenties began with a bang. Whatever else the decade may bring, chronologers will look back on its opening fortnight as momentous. The tone was set by the January 3 hit on General Quassem Suleimani, followed five days later … Read More »

The streets of Barcelona

21 Oct