30/07/2015 - On the one hand the blocks of the last socialist building, on the other the glass of the institutional buildings and the blue flags that are reflected in them. In between, the articulated trams glide across the low lawn. “Viale dei cecchini” is like this: a slight inclined plane that leads from Sarajevo, beyond the hollow of hills that protected and wounded it.

13/07/2015 - Coming from Montenegro, at the Zupci border, it is understandable: from whichever side you enter Bosnia is always different but basically always the same. The obsession with the double alphabet, Cyrillic for the Serbs and Latin for the others, is reminiscent of ancient divisions. Fatigue and still air do the rest. Bosnia looks like a slow motion movie.

11/07/2015 - Until '91 Trieste was a door and the highway that went beyond, went straight without different acronyms. It pointed south to the mountains of Macedonia and Montenegro, where the Balkans of the Slavs close the doors to Albania. Who cares, many will say. Stuff of signs and roads at the bottom ...

01/07/2015 - Maastricht is in the Netherlands and is full of flowers. A bit like San Remo, with the difference that San Remo is famous for the Festival, Maastricht for the parameters.

Nothing strange. Cities have always been linked to something. If it is worth saying "the olives of Gaeta", "the pasta of Gragnano", "the ham of Parma", then they are also worth "the parameters of Maastricht". City that you go, specialties that you find.

23/06/2015 - The entire African continent in 1950 had 200 million souls. In 2014, the population was estimated at one billion and 100 million. Considering that technology and globalization have meanwhile made the world smaller, it goes without saying that Africa and its critical issues are a frequent note on the agenda of many chancelleries.

20/06/2015 - "Ventimiglia are few. Many more seem to be those that separate men from their good faith ".

It is a widespread opinion through a subliminal but incessant media campaign that if it rains in Congo, in Senegal there is a toothache, and in Mozambique they sting mosquitoes, the fault of the West.

17/06/2015 - The French electoral system, based on the double-round single-member majority, has often allowed the Socialist Party to survive despite frequent haemorrhages of consensus.

15/06/2015 - Does Iraq exist?

The question asked today leaves us perplexed. He also puzzled observers at the end of the British protectorate, when the fragile independent monarchy did not seem able to give institutional continuity to a complex country, zip of demarcation between areas of strong contrast.

11/06/2015 - The so-called counter-offensive on Ramadi by the Iraqi armed forces, proposes a scenario already seen in Iraq. Isis or not Isis, that an Iraqi province is out of control of central power, since the fall of Saddam onwards, does not seem a novelty. After all, without the grip of the regime that held it together for 25 years, the country would be divided according to the three souls that comprise it: the Sunnis in the center, the Shiites in the South and the Kurds in the north.

06/06/2015 - We continue to talk about Russia and Ostpolitik under different profiles, often stunned by questionable media filters.

More and more often in the debates emerges an idea difficult to challenge: still reasoning how we were in the '900 makes the interests of all but Europe.

01/06/2015 - There is much talk of refugees in Southeast Asia. Burma of the military chases the Rohingya minorities ...

Real refugee alarm or convenient charges?

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We offer a reflection, in light of the latest events in the news in Rome.

26/05/2015 - From Neanderthal man onwards, migratory flows are regulated on an axiom: they are associated with the idea of ​​going somewhere to find something. Even an idiot understands this: no one would leave his home without the prospect of being better off. Whether they are peaceful or not, it applies to the Mediterranean and it applies to the whole world.

24/05/2015 - Libya is half an invention. Although quoted in the Gospel (Acts 2,1-11), Diocletian already knew that there were two pieces: Tripolitania to the west, Cyrenaica to the east. Yet even today, the Arab land between Tunisia and Egypt is called Libya. It is six times Italy but has a tenth of its population. Despite being one of the least inhabited places on Earth, it continues to be talked about.

22/05/2015 - The advantages of not having a foreign policy can be summarized essentially in three points:

- You save a lot of time

- You can rely on the good star, trusting in that of others

- You avoid the trouble of criticizing it

16/05/2015 - In the mediocre film The best defense is escape of the 1984 with Eddie Murphy, the US was at war with a hypothetical Iraq that had invaded a hypothetical Kuwait. The film choice of Iraq seemed politically correct because in the reality of those years Iraq was pampered by the US (scandal Irangate apart ...) in the Khomeini war against Iran.

15/05/2015 - Ukraine with spring is less news. There was no resumption of hostilities in a big way. The snow goes away but everything else remains.

Donetsk airport, flooded at the time of European football, is an open-air scrapyard: a tongue of rubble, craters and carcasses.

12/05/2015 - Without feeling indebted to La Palice, we can argue that everything that happens affects the fabric of the community in which we live and changes its structure more or less slowly.

That in the list there is also the "migrant question" is now in the public domain.

07/05/2015 - In spite of the politically correct, there is a country that plans a strategy of existence in the long term without too many frills. We speak of Australia, ironically the youngest nation among those that for customs and ethics of reference, we call Westerners.

02/05/2015 - Road between Luhansk and Debaltsevo. It is the northern part of the Donbass, now all pro-Russian. In front of the carcass of a T 72, things are better understood. Touching the greased mesh of a track shows that the war is really dirty and that the steppes of the East are not cold only for Tolstoy.