Operation Yellowhammer aims to mitigate the disruptive effects of Brexit within the UK, and should last about three months. It was developed by the Civil Contingencies Secretariat (CCS), a department of the Cabinet Office responsible for emergency planning. To better prepare the British public for the eventuality of a no deal exit, the publication of document excerpts was expected on…
On 22 July, “Port News”, the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority magazine, edited by Marco Casale, hosted a piece by Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata where the former Foreign Secretary of Italy and President of the Global Committee for the Rule of Law “Marco Pannella” outlines the economic and political risks connected with Chinese development and the ties that Italy and…
The following statement is issued while a delegation from the European Union is visiting Cambodia this week, for the second time this year as part of the process of withdrawing duty-free access to EU markets under the EBA agreement. On behalf of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), I would like to express to the European Union – meaning the…
On Saturday 13 April a delegation of the Radical Party composed of Sen. Roberto Rampi, Umberto Gambini and Matteo Angioli, held a second meeting with former President of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont in Waterloo, Belgium. The hour-long meeting ended with several statements collected by Radio Radicale. Matteo Angioli stressed Mr. Puigdemont’s attempt to internationalize the case and the need to engage…
Despite boasting unrivaled tourist attractions, large stores of natural resources that could be profitably and responsibly exploited, and one of the world’s youngest labor forces the country’s economy is floundering. And, after 34 years of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s dictatorial rule, Cambodians could soon be facing a higher price. On April 4, a group of international buyers’ associations from the…
5th World Congress & Expo on Oil, Gas & Petroleum Engineering Milan, March 28-29, 2019 In a country presentation held at “Fiera di Roma” two years ago, Iran was described by Massoud Soltanifar, Vice-President of the Islamic Republic, as “the land of a thousand opportunities”, and I quote: “Iran is known as the ‘four season country”, its millenary history and…
Under the leadership of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, the only opposition party in parliament, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was arbitrarily dissolved in 2017 and its leader, Kem Sokha, arrested. This set the scene for rigged elections in July 2018, with all of the seats in the National Assembly being won by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP).…
On February 16, the French newspaper Le Monde published a long and appalling study on the serious risk of “foreign interferences” in the European elections scheduled on May 26 this year. Governments need to inform parliaments and the public of what is happening and what the implications are. “Paris is afraid of having to face a wave of Russian or…
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…