On 2 February, Foreign Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano said that Italy does not recognize Venezuela’s interim President Juan Guaido. Obviously, he prefers “Maduro and the narco-generals, as in the case of Russia, China, Iran, Cuba and other corrupt countries. He stes himself against the 27 EU Member States and the majority of Latin American OAS members that which support the
It is with deep sorrow that we have learned that the Ambassador in Bulgaria of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Camillo Zuccoli, passed away on 3 February at the age of 61. He was Ambassador of the Order to Bulgaria since 2007. “Thanks to his outstanding activity and his love for Bulgaria, 460 humanitarian, hospital, social and educational initiatives have
Internet interference in the political debate and in the formation of consensus by “external actors” in America and in the European Union have exponentially increased in the last four years. The phenomenon has been the subject of preventive measures, deterrence and conflict in the United States and in several countries of the European Union. It undermines the very foundations of
Former Italian Foreign Minister, Giulio Maria Terzi sharply criticized the Ayatollah regime and the European Union’s policy towards it, in a special interview with Israel Hayom. Italy’s former foreign minister and member of the national-conservative “Brothers of Italy” party, Giulio Maria Terzi, might have met his death in the spectacular terrorist attack the Iranian intelligence had planned to carry out
On behalf of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), I would like to express to the European Union – meaning the European Parliament, the European Commission and all the member states – my deep gratitude for their effort and determination to help defend human rights and restore democracy in Cambodia. Even though the CNRP was arbitrarily dissolved by the Hun
One of the items on the agenda of the current session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg, is the use of referendums. The Council of Europe decided to adopt a Resolution to update guidelines for member countries of the CoE on the fair use of referendums. The Report on this matter is being examined by
On the initiative of Giuseppe Benedetto, President of the Luigi Einaudi Foundation, today we pay tribute to the memory of Jan Palach here in Prague on the fiftieth anniversary of his sacrifice. The extraordinary driving force behind the martyrdom that Jan Palach has – with immense courage and determination – inflicted on himself, shows the absolute power of non-violence in
“It is very unusual for a Chinese court to pronounce a death sentence only one hour after the end of the trial” said to Deutsche Welle an utterly surprised attorney Zhang Dongshuo after the Dalian People’s Intermediate Tribunal – a city in north-eastern China – sentenced to death for drug trafficking Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, a 36-year old Canadian citizen. It
On 9 January, Kok Ksor, nonviolent leader of the indigenous people of the Central Highlands of Vietnam, known as Degar, or Monatgnards in French, passed away. He was 75 years old. He was also a tenacious and generous companion, a leading member of the Nonviolent Radical Party Transnational Transparty (NRPTT) as he sat in the General Council for many years.