Flash and Facts

9 July 2014

Health Authorities are on the Alert

The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) announced recently that thousands of illicit online pharmacies, to be more precise 10.600 websites, were shut down in the largest-ever ...

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9 July 2014

Alert is also focused on Energy

The latest International Energy Agency report (IEA) sets the cat among the pigeons by estimating that future investments in energy would not be sufficient to satisfy global demand.The IEA says that ...

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19 June 2014

Fears and Received Ideas

A demographic apocalypse? It seems that previous studies were based on wrong predictions. It is a fact that the number of people on the planet has increased dramatically, from 2.5 billion in 1950 to ...

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19 June 2014

Soft Power

"Attract and co-opt rather than coerce", this is the key of soft power. This concept developed by Joseph Nye at Harvard University rests on three resources: Culture, Political Values and ...

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23 May 2014

How to Feed the Planet

The Food and Agriculture Organization entitled its report " How to feed the World in 2050 ". The FAO considers that by 2050 the global population will be 9.1 billion people, about one ...

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23 May 2014

The Sign of a Deep Malaise

Economic crisis, financial problems, but also social isolation are the main ills pushing more and more farmers around the world to commit suicide. Taking France as an example, a country that is ...

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7 May 2014

The Debt Burden

Many International Organisations are sounding the alarm about the huge public debt of the major advanced economies. Since the global financial crisis of 2008- 2009 public debt has increased ...

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7 May 2014

A Challenging Equation

Europe has set the course by requiring the Member States to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020. But that is probably easier said than done. The financial cost of the Energy ...

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17 April 2014

On the Top Step of the Podium

India remains the world's largest arms buyer. The country increased its imports by 111% in the past five years. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) India ...

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