Now headed by Sergio Marchionne, successor to Agnelli at Fiat, and David A. Heleniak, senior advisor at Morgan Stanley, the Council’s mandate is clear: growth.
Growth tops agenda of the Council for the U.S. and Italy
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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Snowden and the U.S.-China cyber debate
For the sound and fury of the global PR battle over who is the real cyber-villain, neither the U.S. nor China are likely to walk away from a 21st century espionage tool.
Hezbollah in Syria for long haul, despite Gulf backlash
Unsurprisingly, the United States, Europe and the United Nations have all condemned Hezbollah’s role. More notable, perhaps, are the pan-Arab criticisms that mark a departure from the support Hezbollah once enjoyed from much of the Arab World.
Egypt’s Grand Sheikh condemns Islamist group
Only the latest public blow against the ultra-conservative Gamaa al-Islamiya.
Erdogan tests international ties with Hamas meeting, possible Gaza visit
The timing of Erdogan’s face-to-face with Hamas is curious, coinciding as it does with the spread of a popular anti-government movement across Turkey.
With infant death, Bosnia’s “Baby Revolution” picks up steam
It remains to be seen if Berina Hamidovic’s death — and the public outcry surrounding it — is enough to build the traction necessary for the self-dubbed “Baby Revolution” to end a political stalemate twenty years in the making
Ugandan leader criticizes ‘chauvinistic’ Egypt on Nile dam
A sign of the deepening divide between Egypt and its African neighbors
Ethiopia’s move on Nile treaty reflects a regional shift
Ethiopia’s ratification of a new Nile treaty should not have been altogether surprising given Egypt’s increasingly diminished geopolitical position.
France offers Tunisian asylum, amid evolving relationship
Ghazi Beji was offered political asylum by France after fleeing Tunisia last year: the young graduate had been sentenced in absentia to seven and a half years in prison for posting blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed on his Facebook page.
Backlash mounting against Hezbollah’s Syria intervention
The repercussions of the militant group’s stepped-up presence in the civil war raging in Syria are now materializing in full force.
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