Energy
Pnrr, Pniec and infrastructures: all the time lost with gas
During a plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, in September, the Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans did not imagine that there would be a war anytime soon. Energy prices went up for what he called “market dynamics”, the concern of governments was about bills and not yet livelihood. Even then there was a certainty: […]
Gedi
Augias attacks Elkann: “Newspapers are not factories”
“I thought of writing a postcard to engineer John Elkann, who is the president of the publishing group that publishes Repubblica and La Stampa among other things”. Thus begins the dean of journalism Corrado Augias, in his column within the Rebus broadcast on Rai3. An elegant but very hard message addressed to the editor of the newspaper founded by Eugenio Scalfari, of […]
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Poverty. The growth of 2021 has not reduced it: it increases in the Center, disaster in the South
While a large part of the majority of the Draghi government was discussing how to reduce – or completely abolish – the citizen’s income, the number of poor families was increasing both in Central and Southern Italy. While the various ministers launched announcements about “economic booms” and “recovery beyond the rosiest expectations”, inflation was actually […]
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New records for skyrocketing fuel prices
You want to repeat that the assaults on supermarket shelves are unmotivated if the only message that filters through is that most of the Italian supplies of raw materials and food products come from Russia and Ukraine. And it is a certain sensation to know that now it is the FAO that is launching the alarm on price increases: “A […]
Other places
Egypt. The price of bread skyrockets: it is the fault of the war
Egypt, the world’s largest importer of wheat, is seeing a dramatic rise in the price of unsubsidized bread following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one of the largest wheat producers in the world. The country of the Pharaohs is one of several countries in the Middle East, including Iraq, Lebanon, Tunisia, Algeria and Turkey, which imports grain […]