The former European Central Bank supremo has been generally seen as a good hire for Italy, but there are also global issues at play.
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Mario Draghi, former president of the European Central Bank, has been appointed prime minister after the government collapsed.
A spike in cases has been reported among young people in Israel and Italy.
The results from an emerging study suggest governments should act quickly if they plan to impose travel bans – before the virus can spread widely to other countries.
Far-right extremists in the US have the potential to mount a coordinated, low-intensity campaign of political violence. It wouldn’t be the country’s first experience with domestic terror.
Fertility is higher in Northern Europe than in Southern Europe. To understand, let’s take a look at family policies, equality between women and men and the economic context.
New research published in the journal Nature reveals that more than 1.2 million flow barriers exist on European rivers and that approximately 10% are obsolete.
Our study shows that maths anxiety not only causes children to struggle in exams – it also means they learn less at school.
Illicit and legitimate trade are closely connected, so how come one seems to be rising while the other has plunged?
Naples holds an enduring – and ambiguous – place in cultural representations of Italy.
It is generally assumed that this disease-control technique goes back to the 1840s, but it’s actually much older.
Over the first 100 days of the pandemic, countries that quickly implemented strong policies successfully lowered their death rates faster. There were also some surprises in the successes and failures.
Many governments can’t afford to offer the sort of economic stimulus we’ve seen in the west, and organised crime is only too happy to fill the gap.
Migrants have been left to die in the Mediterranean as Italy and Malta declared their harbours ‘unsafe’ in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
As the US prepares to reopen from weeks of social distancing, it’s worth noting what other countries are doing.
While some authoritarian governments have won early praise, research shows that democratic countries with a balance of power between central and regional bodies are best able to succeed.
Politicians should have acted faster and more decisively, survey data from four countries show.
Countries aiming to flatten the coronavirus curve have one crucial aim: reduce the “effective reproduction number” of the virus to below 1. This means the spread is slowing, rather than accelerating.
Having brought cases of infection significantly down, the country is preparing to loosen lockdown measures.
Another EU leaders’ meeting, another humdrum announcement afterwards.
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Comparative Organised Crime and Corruption, University of Bath
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Professor of Politics, University of Salford
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Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Britain and Europe, University of Surrey
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Sociology of Law and Deviance, Università di Bologna; University of Essex; The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Modern Italian History, University of Bristol
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