30/06/2015
Danilo Veneruso
At the wane of warlike Bonapartism in 1814-1815, European intellectuals claim for the peaceful humanitarian Christian religion. On the contrary, Prussian general Carl Clausewitz demands the warlike politics religion. Then Hegel, who supports the peaceful Christian religion, contradicts himself. Consequently he transforms the peaceful “ideal and eternal” religion into the “victory” of warlike politics.
Bichara Khader
The Maghreb is EU’s nearest abroad. No wonder if the EEC (later the EU) endeavoured to integrate the Maghreb countries in all its Mediterranean policies, starting with the Global Mediterranean Policy (1972), then the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (1995), the European Neighbourhood Policy (2004) and finally the Union for the Mediterranean (2008). But in spite of the plethora of policies, the balance sheet remains modest, to say the least. The EU should
probably overhaul and revamp its policies with new vision, method and instruments.
Dieter Krimphove - Sven Barth,
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement (TTIP) is currently discussed to have numerous effects on the economic conditions in Europe. Even if the TTIP agreement has notpassed its status as a draft, the majority of European experts emphasises the negative effects, especially on the abatement of European law and consumer protection standards.
It is true that the recent stage of development leaves the door open for further negotiation, different terms and continuous need for additional regulations. These negative effects – at the
present TTIP’s developing state – can neither be proved nor unerringly predicted.
Giuseppe Pennisi
The article examines the European Single Resolution Mechanism (Srm), one of the three legs of the European Banking Union (Ebu). The other two are the Single Supervisory – or Surveillance –
System (Sss) and the Single Deposit Guarantee Scheme (Sdgs). The Sss appears well underway. It includes: a) surveillance of major financial institutions to be carried out directly by the
European Central Bank (Ecb), and, b) agreed criteria and methods to be followed in surveillance of the other banks by the national supervisory authorities of individual member States. Sdgs is
meant to be a safeguard to savers and depositors but negotiations on this item have been postponed, most likely sine die.
Umberto Montuoro
The article considers the expansion of an internal armed conflict over national borders to invest another State on the ground of legal logic. The fact is that, today, two initially distinct phenomena
of internal armed violence - a reaction to two different situations of instability of the political regimes existing in Syria and in Iraq after the second Gulf War - now appear merged into a single
front. The effectiveness of the use of government powers on civilian population and the independence of the territorial political entity are the two cornerstones of subjectivity in international law.
Federico Sperotto
Hostages Warren Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto, who were in the hands of al Qaeda in Pakistan since 2012, have been accidentally killed last January in a drone strike. Their death revitalized the
debate on legality, human costs, and real effectiveness of targeted killings.
Raffaele Campanella
Dante reaches the idea of a universal Monarchy, identified to the Empire, as a remedy to the serious conflicts, internal strife and civil and moral disorder prevailing in Florence, Italy and Europe. Only the Emperor can contain the boundless cupidity of mankind and the omnipotence of the Church which, in addition to the spiritual power, unduly took over the temporal power. The independence of the two supreme powers, the Church and the Empire, is essential for the human race to achieve eternal life and happiness on earth (two suns theory).
Giorgio Bosco
In this short article the author examines some original manuscript documents of the first half of the 19th century, concerning consular activities in Algeria of the Kingdom of Sardinia, one of the
States that existed in the Italian peninsula before the unification of the year 1861. Different matters were treated: fishing by Italian trawlers in Algerian waters, the treatment of foreigners under French administration, the Italians enrolled in the Foreign Legion, and others.
