MICHELE GERACI

Sanctions, open-ended military backing for Ukraine and brinkmanship over the Baltics and Kaliningrad are not protecting Italians. They are costing them, and they risk dragging Italy into a war.

Brussels talks about weight in the world while its citizens and companies pay for every geopolitical gesture. A foreign policy that cannot name its beneficiaries is not strategy, it is posturing.

Conflicting measures of responsibility—historical stocks, recent flows and per‑person emissions—create irreconcilable narratives in climate diplomacy. A pragmatic burden‑sharing architecture must translate these metrics into a transparent, dynamic formula that balances equity, effectiveness and political feasibility.

Three legitimate ways of measuring responsibility—historical cumulative emissions, current annual emissions, and per‑capita emissions—point in different directions. That contradiction is at the heart of stalled international climate bargaining. Resolving it requires a transparent, rule‑based burden‑sharing…

China’s centralized governance and explicit social compact enable a coherent, large‑scale push into solar and related industries. That coherence yields industrial scale, exportable projects and geopolitical leverage that Western, fragmented models struggle to match —…

A cluster of tweets on 29 October 2026—oscillating between apparent reassurance in European leadership and sharp critiques about Ukraine support—revives themes I have repeatedly flagged in the past: a preference for rhetoric over impact analysis,…