The Central Anti-Crime Director of the State Police Prefect Francesco Messina declared: "A complex investigation, which lasted almost three years, conducted in various parts of the national territory and also abroad, which led to the seizure of large quantities of trafficked drugs by transnational organizations that have been prosecuted thanks to the cooperation of the different Police and […]
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European leaders reached the historic agreement on the Recovery Fund and the EU Budget 2021-2027 at the end of a record negotiation that lasted four days and four nights. This is the longest summit in the history of the European Union. The Recovery Fund has an endowment of 750 billion euros, of which 390 billion in "grants", [...]
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So Giuseppe Conte yesterday after the second round in Brussels. "Italy has decided to undertake, on its own initiative, a path of reforms that will allow it to run but will demand a serious common fiscal policy, in order to tackle trade surplus and tax dumping once and for all, to compete on equal terms" . "With Rutte I have a [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) “It's still not enough. And it won't be enough until we have quickly accessible European bonds, the rest matters little ”. This is the position expressed by the Italian premier, Giuseppe Conte, who does not move the position held towards Brussels by an inch. No to Mes, Yes to corona bond. Today at 17.00 [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Eurogroup will meet in 4 days and in seven days (next Friday) there will be another confrontation between the heads of state and government of EU countries. The last time they met, in a 6-hour teleconference, the European Union risked disappearing into thin air with a [...]
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Dutch police arrested Tanis Gokmen, the Turkish citizen suspected of being the perpetrator of the shooting that took place today in Utrecht, the Netherlands, which left three dead and at least five injured. This was reported by the Dutch police in a note on his Twitter profile. At the moment the motive for the gesture is not yet clear and whether [...]
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Shoot in Utrecht. According to initial reports, several people were injured this morning while aboard a tram in Utrecht, the Netherlands. According to reports from De Telegraaf, one or more people opened fire on board the public transport as it passed through the square on October 24th. The images disseminated by the media [...]
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Disembark the minors who are on board the Sea Watch. To ask is the Public Prosecutor of Catania. But also this time the government holds the point. For the ministers Toninelli, Di Maio and Salvini, Holland must take care of the 47 migrants on board. "Until there are agreements [...]
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Western intelligence agencies thwarted a plot involving two Russian hackers who intended to go to a laboratory that investigates nuclear and biological weapons to hack computer systems and steal digital information. According to reports from the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, the two men [...]
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The Iranian embassy Hague Holland expelled two Iranian diplomats without explaining the reasons, thus fueling the hypothesis that the expulsions may be linked to the arrests of members of an alleged Iranian sleeper cell in Belgium, Germany and France last week. On Friday, a spokesperson for the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) told [...]
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Ship flying the Dutch flag loads migrants. Salvini, "take a ride a little wide, Italian ports Nisba"
The ship of the NGO Lifeline flying the Dutch flag with a foreign crew, in contravention of the requests of the Italian and Libyan coastguards, embarked, in Libyan waters, 242 illegal immigrants. The Lifeline is now considered a ghost ship because it has turned off the "transponder", the satellite instrument that indicates the reference data of the boats for days. The minister […]
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On May 2018, 14, the legal framework for the Dutch secret service community changed with the entry into force of the new Intelligence and Security Services Act. Previously, both houses of parliament discussed and accepted the law on February 11 and l '2018 July XNUMX. A group of students based in Amsterdam, [...]
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On March 21, the Dutch people voted in favor of the new law on security and intelligence services, in Dutch Wet op de Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten (or WIV). Public discontent over the new intelligence act came rather late. In August, a group of students from Amsterdam managed to gather over [...]
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Dutch Ambassador to Libya Eric Strating paid a visit today to the Prime Minister of the Libyan National Accord Government, Fayez al Sarraj. The Dutch diplomat, during the meeting held with a view to a strong and evident desire for cooperation between the two countries, made official the reopening of a diplomatic office in the Netherlands in [...]
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It is important to see our Europe with non-European eyes from a geopolitical point of view: this could enrich our knowledge, give us a second opinion, before major events such as the political elections. Europe, today, is waiting for two major elective events that will affect Germany and Italy. The elections in these two countries [...]
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