Pope Francis met with Russian Metropolitan Antony

On August 5, in the Vatican, Pope Francis met with Volokolamsk Metropolitan Antony, Chairman of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate. This is the first personal meeting with a representative of Patriarch Kirill since the political problems between Russia and Ukraine became complicated. Following the March 16 online meeting between Pope Francis […]

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The Draghi agenda and Italy’s historic compromise

Fabrizio Tassinari is executive director of the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute and author of “The Pursuit of Governance: Nordic Dispatches on a New Middle Way.” Variously attributed to Winston Churchill or Benito Mussolini, the adage, governing Italians is not impossible but pointless, did for once not hold true. Mario Draghi […]

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