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Leonardo Gottardi
- Mar 28, 2021
- 5 min
An Historical War on Causation
Dealing With Our Past. Looking back at history is always a good way to better understand the present, or even shape present behavior. Knowledge about facts that happened years, decades or centuries ago might be so relevant and heavy in significance to condition present perceptions, roles and moral obligations towards some. Let’s hyperbolically think about the atomic bombs the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Right after the 6th and 9th of August of tha


Teresa Cappelli
- Mar 28, 2021
- 4 min
The EU’s free trade agreements and sustainable development
Ever since the adoption of the UN 2030 Agenda and the subsequent EU’s commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the European Union has made efforts to prompt responsible trade and investment policies with international partners. In the words of the Commission [1]: “EU citizens rightly expect that EU trade agreements with our international partners should support workers' rights, environmental and climate objectives and to enhance global governance in these fields.”


Orsola Zocchi
- Mar 7, 2021
- 10 min
Mario Draghi Appointed as Italian PM
Can the man who saved the euro save Italy? As everyone would expect of the former President of the ECB, Governor of the Bank of Italy and Executive Director of the World Bank, Mr. Mario Draghi is certainly not new to public speeches. Yet, this time, as he stood in the Senate chamber in Rome, he openly admitted to feeling emotional. “I’d like to tell you that, in my long professional life, there has never been a time of such intense emotion and such ample responsibility”. Afte