Blog posts tagged "Italy"

October 26, 2011 5:46 pm 6 Comments

Blogging as leaders meet for the eurozone crisis summit, Jon Snow writes that "it's an incredible shambles here in Brussels".

September 20, 2009 6:04 pm 2 Comments

This final session of the Pontignano conference is dominated by Obama: whether he will “make it”. Consensus is that on health care, on a domestic climate change bill, and even in terms of economic recovery, he will…eventually (though he’ll need two terms). How the participants here love Obama – he really does walk on water [...]

September 19, 2009 8:09 pm No Comments

If you shut your eyes during the debates here in Pontignano you cannot distinguish which nationality the speaker represents. A generation ago that would not have been true. For a start, fewer of the Italians would have spoken fluent English. Secondly globalization has harmonised much of the discourse. That said, there is no celebration of [...]

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Jack Straw the Justice Secretary talked here about the “granulisation” of politics, the fragmenting of voters’ preparedness to carry on with voting for conventional old order politics. How serious is it? I have blogged before about the disenchantment of younger voters in Ireland with their leadership and how it may come to deliver a No [...]

September 18, 2009 7:25 pm No Comments

This comes to you from the Pontignano conference which brings together British and Italian politicians, business, media, and the rest to debate the issues of the day. We are gathered in the amazing British Embassy residence – a positively palace like establishment with palm strewn lawns, a first century aqua duct, English roses, a butler, [...]