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X22 Report
FBI Begins Investigations,Think Logically,Pain,Majority Of Americans, US On Right Track – Ep. 3651

X22 Report

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 95:56


Watch The X22 Report On Video No videos found (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:17532056201798502,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-9437-3289"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="https://cdn2.decide.dev/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs");pt> Click On Picture To See Larger Picture The EU countries are realizing that they were headed down the the wrong path in regards to green energy, now they are reversing course. EU has now bent a knee to Trump and they will negotiate a trade deal. Countries around the world are making trade deals. Consumer sentiment is now rising and the window is now closing for the [DS]/[CB]. The [DS] is panicking because everyday that passes they lose more and more control. They have lost the funding, security clearances, the intelligence orgs and now the FBI has begun their investigation into the pipe bomber, SC leak and cocaine in the WH. Think logically, elections, judges and who was managing the WH. Pain. Majority of Americans say the US is on the right track.   Economy Energy Costs Now ‘Main Issue' For US Ally That Barred Nuclear Power Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said high energy costs are the most critical economic issue for her country  Italy has embraced green energy and enacted a ban on nuclear power that has lasted nearly 40 years, though the nation's Council of Ministers and Meloni have recently moved to reintroduce the technology, joining other European countries like Belgium, Denmark and Germany that are also reconsidering their turns away from nuclear power. Emanuele Orsini — the head of Italy's largest business lobby — called for Meloni to cut energy costs and pave the way for a return to nuclear energy at the annual assembly for Confindustria, where Meloni again acknowledged her country's energy problems, Reuters reported. “Our companies continue to suffer from an energy (price) surcharge of more than 35% over the European average, even reaching peaks of 80% when compared to the largest European countries,” Orsini said at the assembly, according to Reuters. Meloni has expressed support for expanding nuclear energy in Italy, as have other officials, including the Minister of Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin. Source: dailycaller.com   Trade with the United States of America. They will BOTH be very happy, and successful, if they do!!! (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:18510697282300316,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-8599-9832"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="https://cdn2.decide.dev/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs");  US Consumers Now More Optimistic, Ending 5 Straight Months Of Decline In Confidence Index U.S. consumer confidence bounced back in May ending five straight months of decline and beating economists' expectations. The Consumer Confidence Index increased by 12.3 points in May to 98.0, up from 85.7 in April, according to a report released Tuesday by The Conference Board. This notably marked the first increase in consumer confidence in five months. The Conference Board's Present Situation Index, which is based on consumers' outlook on current business and job market conditions, increased 4.8 points in May to 135.9. Meanwhile, the Expectations Index, which is based on consumers' short-term outlook for income, business and job market conditions, jumped 17.4 points to 72.8 in the same month. Source: dailycaller.com  Political/Rights Star Harvard Business Professor Who Studied Honesty Pays a Historic Price for a Faculty Member at School After Falsifying Her Findings on Multiple Studies   As The New York Post reported, Francesca Gino,

Corriere Daily
Trump sanziona Putin? Meloni e Confindustria. Meta AI e i nostri dati

Corriere Daily

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 20:28


Viviana Mazza parla delle misure alle quali il presidente Usa starebbe pensando per spingere quello russo ad accettare un cessate il fuoco in Ucraina. Rita Querzè analizza l'intervento della premier all'Assemblea generale degli imprenditori. Michela Rovelli spiega che cosa può fare chi non si è opposto all'utilizzo dei propri dati su Facebook e Instagram per l'addestramento dell'intelligenza artificiale dell'azienda di Menlo Park.I link di corriere.it:Trump e la tentazione di «nuove» sanzioni alla RussiaMeloni a Confindustria: «Italia credibile davanti a quadro economico difficile»Meta AI, cosa può fare ora chi non si è opposto all'uso dei suoi dati Instagram e Facebook per l'addestramento

Her Går Det Godt
Israel stopper ikke bar' lige og kald det en form for udenrigs-special – Her Går Det Godt

Her Går Det Godt

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 12:45


Operation Gedions stridsvogne er unødvendig og bims, Israel er Mellemøstens Finland og ikke til at stoppe, Bikini-Bar-Kas og en Uzi over skulderen på Vestbredden, security til Eurovision, du ikke skal f… med, et skolevalg med mundkurv på Israel/Palæstina, Mette Frederiksen og Meloni i en spids symbiose om domstolene, totalt-Lokalt gør comeback i Aarhus, og det er ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams', skrabede indkøbsvaner og en omvendt verden af dansk kultur, ‘en hemsko i Danmark - hvis det kører godt', Berlingske har korrespondenter alle steder, ‘må man nu ikke sende 1 milliard igennem en bankfilial på Vesterbro?', der er ild i Bossen på sociale medier, et valg i Rumænien går om, ‘Hold mig i fingeren, Erdogan', og speedy recovery til Joe Biden herfra Frederiksberg. Få 30 dages gratis prøveperiode (kan kun benyttes af nye Podimo-abonnenter)- http://podimo.dk/hgdg (99 kroner herefter)Værter: Esben Bjerre & Peter Falktoft Redigering: PodAmokKlip: PodAmokMusik: Her Går Det GodtInstagram: @hergaardetgodt @Peterfalktoft @Esbenbjerre

Monocle 24: The Briefing
Italy's citizenship referendum and the summer issue of ‘Konfekt'

Monocle 24: The Briefing

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 32:56


Opposition leaders in Italy protest the Meloni government’s call to abstain from a referendum on birthright citizenship. Plus: flying taxis in Al Ain and the best beach reads from the summer issue of Konfekt.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Herrera en COPE
08:00H | 19 MAY 2025 | Herrera en COPE

Herrera en COPE

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 1:00


Señoras, señores, me alegro, buenos días. Es lunes, son las 8 de la mañana, son las 7 en Canarias, lunes 19 de mayo del 2005, ha iniciado su pontificado con una misa. Ayer el Papa León XIV, llamamiento a la unidad de la Iglesia y a la paz en el mundo. Y como ya ocurrió con los funerales del Papa Francisco, la cita ha servido para propiciar muchos contactos internacionales. La primera ministra Meloni, la italiana, propició un encuentro entre el impertinente este vicepresidente americano Vans y la presidenta de la Unión Europea Von der Leyen y también con Zelensky. Bueno, todo ahí anduvo entre ...

ETDPODCAST
Meloni als Brückenbauerin? JD Vance und von der Leyen sprechen in Rom über Zölle | Nr. 7568

ETDPODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 2:41


US-Vizepräsident JD Vance und EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen trafen sich in Rom zu einem hochrangigen Gespräch über die transatlantischen Handelsbeziehungen und insbesondere über die angedrohten US-Zölle auf EU-Produkte. Das Treffen fand am Rande der Amtseinführung von Papst Leo XIV. statt und wurde von Italiens Ministerpräsidentin Giorgia Meloni organisiert, die als „Brückenbauerin“ zwischen den USA und der EU auftrat.

La Linterna
23:00H | 19 MAY 2025 | La Linterna

La Linterna

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 0:29


Son las 11, las 10 en Canarias. Nos queda media horita con la linterna encendida de este lunes. Con Expósito, la última hora en la linterna. Cope, estar informado. Esta noche, Trump ha descolgado el teléfono para llamar a los socios europeos y hablar de las conversaciones con Putin y con Zelensky. En una llamada conjunta ha hablado con la presidenta de la Comisión, Úrsula Von der Leyen, con el francés Macron, el alemán Merz, el finlandés Stubb y la italiana Meloni. Evidentemente falta alguno. Todos han acogido con satisfacción los avances hacia un posible alto el fuego. Detalles, Álvaro ...

24 Mattino
La giornata in 24 minuti del 19 maggio

24 Mattino

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025


L'apertura dei giornali, con le notizie e le voci dei protagonisti, tutto in meno di 30 minuti.La carenza di medici di base è un problema crescente in Italia, ne mancano oltre 5.500 e sempre più cittadini faticano a trovare un medico di famiglia. In vista c'è una riforma per i che potrebbe far passare dall'essere liberi professionisti a diventare dipendenti del Servizio sanitario nazionale (Ssn): sarebbe questo lo schema su cui il governo Meloni starebbe lavorando da diversi mesi e di cui ora ci sarebbe una bozza. Sentiamo il parere di Fiorenzo Corti, vicesegretario nazionale del sindacato Fimmg (Federazione Italiana Medici di Medicina Generale).

Corriere Daily
Usa-Ue, contatto (dal Papa). Attacco a Gaza. Paolini su, Sinner giù

Corriere Daily

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 19:56


Ester Palma racconta l'incontro fra Giorgia Meloni, J. D. Vance e Ursula von der Leyen dopo la messa di insediamento di Leone XIV in San Pietro.  Greta Privitera spiega le ragioni del nuovo attacco di terra lanciato da Israele, dopo le parole del premier Benjamin Netanyahu su un possibile accordo con Hamas per un cessate il fuoco. Gaia Piccardi parla della vittoria in singolare e in doppio di Jasmine e della sconfitta di Jannik in finale contro Alcaraz.I link di corriere.it:Meloni, Vance e von der Leyen: incontro a Roma dopo l'insediamento del PapaL'omelia di Papa Leone: «Non possiamo dimenticare chi soffre per la guerra»Gaza, la strage dei bambini: morti quasi 20.000 minori

Informationen am Abend - Deutschlandfunk
Bundeskanzler Merz bei Meloni - Antrittsbesuch in Italien

Informationen am Abend - Deutschlandfunk

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 1:19


Weiß, Lisa www.deutschlandfunk.de, Informationen am Abend

International report
Can Europe withstand the ripple effect of the MAGA political wave?

International report

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2025 12:34


Célia Belin of the European Council on Foreign Relations tells RFI that Donald Trump's administration is treating Europe less as a partner and more as a rival. In backing nationalist movements and undermining multilateral institutions, it is exporting a political mode of operation that risks fracturing European unity. The impact of Donald Trump's second term in the White House is being felt far beyond US borders. Observers say this ripple effect can be seen across Europe, not just in policy but in the continent's political culture itself.For Dr Célia Belin of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the stakes are nothing less than the future of European liberal democracy.In her latest ECFR report, MAGA Goes Global: Trump's Plan for Europe, Belin warns that what might appear to be chaotic decisions from the Oval Office are, in fact, part of an ideological project.“There's actually a strong direction, a clear destination,” Belin told RFI. “Trump, surrounded by loyalists and MAGA Republicans, is ready to implement his plan – to push back on liberal democracy, and to push back on Europe."According to her, he sees Europe as “an extension of his political enemies – liberals and progressives” and views its institutions as bureaucratic hurdles rather than allies in global leadership.Culture wars without bordersTrump's administration – bolstered by figures including Vice President JD Vance and media mogul Elon Musk – has also made overtures to Europe's far right.They have voiced support for Germany's far-right AfD party and France's Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally, including on Musk's social media platform X (formerly Twitter) – helping to disseminate nationalist and populist rhetoric across the continent.“We're seeing a systematic attack on the liberal model that Europe represents,” said Belin. “This ‘Trumpian wave' has fired up nationalist opposition in Europe, even if it hasn't created a united front."‘Free Le Pen': US conservatives rally behind French far-right leaderNon merci to MAGAHowever, some of the European political parties that share Trump's scepticism of liberal institutions are treading carefully when it comes to embracing his brand of politics.While leaders such as Viktor Orbán in Hungary openly welcome MAGA-style backing, others see it as a double-edged sword.Following her recent legal conviction, Le Pen received support from MAGA-aligned figures. But her party responded with conspicuous silence.“They don't want or need this Trumpian support,” Belin noted. “Their political strategy is not about aligning with MAGA America – it's more French, more sovereignist."Embracing Trump too openly could risk undermining years of effort to mainstream the National Rally's image. “Nationalists are realising that now – it brings fuel to the fire, yes, but it also complicates their own domestic positioning," said Belin.Trump's first 100 days: Revolution or destruction? The view from FranceEurope respondsFrench President Emmanuel Macron was among the first European leaders to sound the alarm on the changing nature of the US-European alliance. "I want to believe that the United States will stay by our side but we have to be prepared for that not to be the case," he said in a televised address to the nation in March.I January, in a speech to French ambassadors, he said: "Ten years ago, who could have imagined it if we had been told that the owner of one of the largest social networks in the world would support a new international reactionary movement and intervene directly in elections, including in Germany."German Chancellor Olaf Scholz followed suit, criticising Musk's decision to give the AfD a platform just weeks before Germany's federal elections.However, Belin points out that the European response is still taking shape. “It's brand new as a phenomenon,” she said. “Europeans were prepared to be challenged on trade, on security – even on Ukraine. But this cultural challenge is unprecedented.”Meloni positions herself as Europe's ‘trump card' on visit to White HouseStill, as Belin notes, Trumpism is not a winning formula everywhere. “Turning fully Trumpist would derail Marine Le Pen's strategy. It's not a winning strategy in France,” she said. “But in more insurgent political systems, it might be."And there is concern too that Trumpism could outlive Trump himself.“There's been a transformation in the perception of America's global role,” Belin said. “And that will stick around. It will be pushed by some of the nationalist parties in our countries. That is the Trumpist legacy”.

ANSA Voice Daily
PRIME PAGINE | Ucraina, vertice a Istanbul senza Putin

ANSA Voice Daily

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 10:35


Effetto notte le notizie in 60 minuti
Meloni: “Con Netanyahu conversazioni difficili”

Effetto notte le notizie in 60 minuti

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025


Iniziamo la puntata commentando la giornata della politica italiana e in particolare partendo dalle risposte della Presidente del Consiglio Meloni alla Camera. Lo facciamo insieme a Barbara Fiammeri, commentatrice politica de Il Sole 24 Ore. I nuovi sviluppi sul delitto di Garlasco. Ce li racconta Marco Oliva, conduttore di “Lombardia Nera” su Antenna 3.Il Tribunale dell’Unione europea critica la Commissione per mancanza di trasparenza sul Pfizergate. Con noi Antonio Pollio Salimbeni, corrispondente de Il Sole 24 ORE - Radiocor a Bruxelles. Questa sera la finale di Coppa Italia fra Milan e Bologna. Tutti gli aggiornamenti dal nostro Dario Ricci, in diretta dallo Stadio Olimpico.

The Greek Current
Greece looks to answer new questions on migration

The Greek Current

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 13:13


From a recent decision in a German court that could pave the way for migrants to be deported back to Greece to a labor shortage ahead of the critical tourism season, migration issues look to be back on the table. This is also the case at the European level, where the EU has gotten tougher on deportations over the past months amid wider concerns about the populist far-right. Angeliki Dimitriadi, an independent researcher and expert on migration, joins Thanos Davelis as we break down how these developments impact Greece.You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:Greece says it won't accept refugee returns from GermanyGerman ruling opens door to Greece deportationsMigrant return rules get tougherGreece's booming tourism sector in race to find workers as summer season loomsAlbania votes as PM Rama seeks fourth term, promising EU integrationAlbanian election result unclear after broadcasters withhold exit pollsMitsotakis and Meloni face key issues

Zuppa di Porro
Lo scandalo del primario di Piacenza che violentava a più non posso

Zuppa di Porro

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2025 23:01


Zuppa di Porro. Prima fumata nera, come è sempre avvenuto e la Stampa ti piazza in apertura: Intrighi tra cardinali. Ferrara lirico su quanto gli piace l’estetica della Chiesa e dei cardinali. Premier Time della Meloni e Renzi fa Renzi. Dice alla Meloni se si dimetterà in caso di sconfitta del referendum. Proprio lui che […]

Presa internaţională
Și totuși, cine e George Simion? Meloni de București, AfD sau ... mai rău?

Presa internaţională

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 4:05


După ce, în noiembrie, presa internațională a aflat cu stupoare despre existența lui Călin Georgescu și despre ideile sale, iată că a venit și rândul lui George Simion de a fi descoperit. Iar liderul AUR s-a dovedit foarte generos cu presa străină, în contrast cu zgârcenia față de mediile românești. Sau cu refuzul participării la dezbaterile electorale. Dar cum apare, de fapt, George Simion, în discuțiile cu presa străină? Foarte mediatizat în țară, de la accederea în Parlament în 2020, actualul câștigător al primului tur din alegerile prezidențiale a avut parte de mai puțină atenție în presa internațională.Însă acum, echipele de jurnaliști venite la București au putut să trimită la redacțiile lor de acasă povești spumoase despre ultrasul de peluză aflat, iată, la un pas de a câștiga președinția României și de a ajunge în aceeași incintă cu liderii europeni, la reuniunile de la Bruxelles.Aceste apariții în presa internațională pot fi interesante și pentru observatorii români, care încearcă să-și facă o idee despre ce pregătește exact George Simion, în caz că va ajunge președinte – câtă vreme el a absentat de la dezbaterile preelectorale.Citeste siHuligan, fan Trump și vedetă pe rețelele de socializarePrima  constatare este că liderul AUR oferă în presa internațională o imagine cu totul diferită de cea pe care și-o promovează în România.Dacă acasă se prezintă drept moștenitorul politic al lui Călin Georgescu - un susținător deschis al Rusiei, anti-UE și anti-NATO, care vede reptilieni printre liderii europeni și spune că va naționaliza companiile străine - George Simion se prezintă în presa străină ca un lider european frecventabil.”Nu sunt huliganul, extremistul, izolaționistul pe care ei îl prezintă”, a afirmat George Simion, într-un interviu acordat publicației britanice Financial Times.El s-a caracterizat drept un fel de Giorgia Meloni de la București și a respins orice urmă de pro-rusism. A negat orice intenție de a abate România de la calea europeană și a militat pentru unitate transatlantică.Dar este George Simion un echivalent românesc al Giorgiei Meloni? Mai degrabă, nu.Șefa guvernului italian, venită, e adevărat, la putere pe un discurs eurosceptic, în fruntea unui partid cu înclinații neofasciste, este o susținătoare ferventă a Ucrainei. George Simion nu este.Georgia Meloni o sprijină pe Ursula von der Leyen. George Simion o consideră un monstruPrivit din interior și nu prin prisma interviurilor din presa străină, George Simion este mai aproape de AfD-ul german, mai ales dacă avem în vedere și derapajele antisemite.Relaxat în discuțiile cu reporterii străini, George Simion nu are o problemă în a-i da pe jurnaliștii de la G4Media pe mâna procurorilor DIICOT. Este un fapt fără precedent pentru un lider de partid în România postdecembristă și care ridică întrebarea: ce-ar face el dacă ar avea puterea?În condițiile financiare îngrozitoare ale României, George Simion ar putea urma modelul fostului premier grec Alexis Tsipras, de extremă stânga. Acesta, după un discurs virulent anti-UE și o vizită la Kremlin de unde a venit cu mâna goală, s-a întors spășit la Bruxelles și a urmat planul de reformă, pe care mai înainte grecii îl respinseseră prin referendum. Și țara a ieșit din criză.Sau, dimpotrivă, indiferent de consecințe, George Simion ar urma instinctele bazei sale electorale radicalizate, instituind un regim al răzbunării, al dezmembrării instituțiilor statului, al distrugerii oricărei urme de opoziție și societate civilă. Poate îl va instaura pe Călin Georgescu pentru a aplica programul său în care oamenii se vor întoarce la agricultura de subzistență și vor trăi din troc.Cine este cu adevărat George Simion? Ce vrea el, în realitate, să facă din România? Nu știm. Și aceasta este marea problemă. Ascultați rubrica ”Eurocronica”, cu Ovidiu Nahoi, în fiecare zi, de luni până vineri, de la 8.45 și în reluare duminica, de la 15.00, numai la RFI România

Zuppa di Porro
È uno scandalo: rilasciati i tre tunisini molestatori al Concertone

Zuppa di Porro

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 22:49


Zuppa di Porro. Kiev-Mosca nuove polemiche. Oramai è andata come previsto , ogni elezione in cui non vincono i conservatori è l’effetto Trump. E sul Sole il mitico Fabrini dice che l’unico leader che non si è liberato di Trump nel mondo è la Meloni. Trump si veste da Papa, direi un’offesa per ogni cattolico. […]

MG Show
A Mother's Pain: Whose Side Are You On?; Trump and Meloni in the Oval Office.

MG Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 115:06


Brace for an explosive episode as @intheMatrixxx and @shadygrooove dive into the heart-wrenching story of a mother's pain, exposing how Democrat policies on illegal immigration fuel tragedies like the murder of Kayla Hamilton by an MS-13 gang member. They challenge listeners: Whose side are you on—victims or the deep state's open-border agenda? Plus, they unpack Trump's powerhouse Oval Office meeting with Italy's Giorgia Meloni, revealing their shared America First and Italy First vision to combat globalist schemes. With the constitution as your weapon, this episode arms you to confront the truth and defend sovereignty. The truth is learned, never told—tune in to the MG Show to expose the real enemies of freedom. Keywords Kayla Hamilton, MS-13, illegal immigration, Democrat policies, Trump, Giorgia Meloni, America First, Italy First, deep state, proven conspiracies, Oval Office, globalism, truth, constitution, @intheMatrixxx, @shadygrooove, MG Show Tune in weekdays at 12pm ET / 9am PST, hosted by @InTheMatrixxx and @Shadygrooove. Catch up on-demand on [Rumble](https://rumble.com/mgshow) or via your favorite podcast platform. **Where to Watch & Listen** - Live on [Rumble](https://rumble.com/mgshow) - [Red State Talk Radio](https://mgshow.link/redstate) - X: [@intheMatrixxx](https://x.com/inthematrixxx) - Backup: [Kick](https://kick.com/mgshow) - PODCASTS: Available on PodBean, Apple, Pandora, and Amazon Music. Search for "MG Show" to listen. **Engage with Us** Join the conversation on [MG Show Channel](https://t.me/mgshowchannel) and participate in live voice chats at [MG Show Chat](https://t.me/MGShow). **Social & Support** - Follow us on X: @intheMatrixxx and @ShadyGrooove - Join our listener group on X: [X Group](https://mgshow.link/xgroup) - Support the show: - Fundraiser: [GiveSendGo](https://givesendgo.com/helpmgshow) - Donate: [Support Page](https://mg.show/support) - Merch: [Merch Store](https://merch.mg.show) - MyPillow Special: Use code MGSHOW at [MyPillow](https://mypillow.com/mgshow) for savings! - Crypto donations: Bitcoin: bc1qtl2mftxzv8cxnzenmpav6t72a95yudtkq9dsuf Ethereum: 0xA11f0d2A68193cC57FAF9787F6Db1d3c98cf0b4D ADA: addr1q9z3urhje7jp2g85m3d4avfegrxapdhp726qpcf7czekeuayrlwx4lrzcfxzvupnlqqjjfl0rw08z0fmgzdk7z4zzgnqujqzsf XLM: GAWJ55N3QFYPFA2IC6HBEQ3OTGJGDG6OMY6RHP4ZIDFJLQPEUS5RAMO7 LTC: ltc1qapwe55ljayyav8hgg2f9dx2y0dxy73u0tya0pu **All Links** Find everything on [Linktree](https://linktr.ee/mgshow)

24 Mattino - Le interviste
La nuova Germania di Merz

24 Mattino - Le interviste

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025


In apertura scopriamo come sta nascendo il nuovo governo in Germania sotto la guida del cancelliere Merz. Lo facciamo con Tonia Mastrobuoni, Repubblica.In occasione della festa del lavoro il governo Meloni ha varato un provvedimento che riguarda proprio i temi della sicurezza sul lavoro. Ne parliamo con Giorgio Pogliotti, Il Sole 24 ORE.Resta altissima la tensione tra India-Pakistan scoppiata pochi giorni fa dopo l'attentato terroristico nel Kashmir indiano che ha causato la morte di 26 turisti. Ne parliamo con Marco Niada, presidente del comitato Arghosha Faraway Schools.

Corriere Daily
Il Canada sfiducia Trump. Mattarella e i salari. Meloni e Erdogan

Corriere Daily

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025 19:21


Sara Gandolfi analizza la vittoria del Partito liberale nelle elezioni: un successo al quale hanno contribuito non poco i primi 100 giorni di governo di The Donald. Marco Cremonesi parla della giornata del Capo dello Stato a Latina dove, nell'avvicinarsi del 1° maggio, ha voluto sottolineare il problema delle basse retribuzioni. Monica Ricci Sargentini racconta che cosa si sono detti la presidente del Consiglio e quello turco ieri a Roma.I link di corriere.it:Canada, i liberali vincono le elezioni: Carney confermato primo ministroPrimo Maggio, Mattarella e il monito sui salari: «Tante famiglie non reggono più»Il leader dell'opposizione turca Ozgur Ozel: Nel mio Paese c'è un colpo di Stato, l'Italia e l'Ue alzino la voce

Focus economia
Il prezzo dei primi 100 giorni di Donald Trump

Focus economia

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025


L’imposizione dei dazi da parte di Donald Trump avrà un impatto significativo sulla portualità commerciale italiana, con un danno stimato da Conftrasporto in oltre 3,5 miliardi di euro solo per il trasporto marittimo delle merci destinate agli Stati Uniti. Circa il 60% del valore e il 90% del volume dell’export italiano verso gli USA viaggia via mare: una riduzione degli scambi, causata dai dazi, colpirà duramente la logistica e la filiera del trasporto. Secondo la Svimez, gli effetti diretti dei dazi potrebbero ammontare a circa 6 miliardi di euro, con ricadute estese su tutto il sistema economico. Intanto, anche negli Stati Uniti si osservano cali consistenti negli arrivi di merci cinesi: il porto di Los Angeles, principale punto d’ingresso del Made in China, registra un crollo degli arrivi pari a un terzo rispetto all’anno precedente. Queste misure si inseriscono in una strategia economica più ampia dell’amministrazione Trump, improntata al protezionismo e alla priorità dell’“America First”, nel tentativo di rilanciare l’industria nazionale. Tuttavia, secondo analisti come Bruce Kasman (JP Morgan), le azioni della Casa Bianca si sono rivelate più radicali del previsto, con aumenti tariffari significativi e un alto livello di incertezza dovuto a politiche altalenanti e negoziati bilaterali ancora instabili. Mentre per i sostenitori si tratta di una presidenza forte e autorevole, i critici denunciano una deriva autoritaria e un attacco all’equilibrio istituzionale degli Stati Uniti. Ne parliamo con Alessandro Plateroti, direttore Newsmondo.itDifesa e energia al centro del vertice italo-turcoGiorgia Meloni ha accolto oggi a Villa Pamphilj (RM) il presidente turco Recep Tayyip Erdogan per il quarto vertice intergovernativo Italia-Turchia, tappa cruciale di una diplomazia bilanciata tra Washington, Bruxelles e Ankara. A poche ore dallo storico incontro tra Trump e Zelensky in Vaticano, la premier italiana rilancia il ruolo di Roma come ponte tra Occidente e Turchia, in uno scenario segnato da crisi in Ucraina, Medio Oriente e Africa. Dopo il bilaterale, Meloni ed Erdogan hanno partecipato alla sessione di alto livello del Forum imprenditoriale Italia-Turchia, presso l Hotel Parco dei Principi, dove si sono riunite 620 imprese (345 italiane e 275 turche). Annunciata la firma di oltre 10 accordi e memorandum d intesa nei settori di difesa, spazio, energia, cybersicurezza, automotive e infrastrutture, con protagonisti come Leonardo, Sparkle, Sace, Cdp, Simest, Confindustria Assafrica&Mediterraneo. Nel settore aerospaziale, Baykar (azienda turca di droni) ha acquisito Piaggio Aerospace, rafforzando la cooperazione tecnologica con l Italia anche grazie alla joint venture con Leonardo per la produzione di UAV. In parallelo, si espande la sinergia nel tessile, dove l Italia è fornitore chiave di macchinari: dal 2011 al 2023 la Turchia ha investito 80 miliardi di USD in nuove tecnologie, in gran parte italiane. Non mancano cultura e turismo: nel 2024 è stato registrato un +9% degli arrivi di turisti turchi in Italia, mentre è attiva una cooperazione archeologica e nella conservazione dei beni culturali. Sul fronte sportivo, Italia e Turchia organizzeranno insieme gli Europei di calcio 2032, una prima assoluta per Ankara. Infine, sullo sfondo restano i nodi della politica europea di difesa: mentre la Germania ha chiesto l attivazione della clausola di salvaguardia Ue per aumentare la spesa militare, l Italia mantiene la linea della prudenza, con Meloni in costante contatto con von der Leyen e il Mef deciso a non ricorrere alla clausola né a scostamenti di bilancio. Il tutto mentre il debito italiano supera i 3.000 miliardi e Bankitalia avverte: «la priorità resta la sostenibilità» interviene: Celestina Dominelli, Il Sole 24 OreBlackout in Spagna, tutto ok tranne la Galizia e il 5-10% dei telefoni. Cause: escluso il fenomeno meteorologico anomaloIl 28 aprile 2025 un massiccio blackout ha colpito l’intera Spagna, parte del Portogallo e alcune zone del sud della Francia, causando gravi disagi nei trasporti, nelle comunicazioni e nella vita quotidiana. L’interruzione, iniziata alle 12:30 con la disconnessione della linea elettrica da 400 kV tra Francia e Spagna, ha portato al blocco delle metropolitane in diverse città spagnole, al malfunzionamento dei semafori e a interruzioni all’aeroporto di Madrid-Barajas. In Galizia, tutti i treni sono stati sospesi. Le reti telefoniche sono rimaste inutilizzabili per ore. L’evento ha avuto anche risvolti tragici: a Madrid sono morte quattro persone, una a causa di un incendio domestico e tre per intossicazione da monossido. Le autorità energetiche hanno lavorato rapidamente per ripristinare il servizio: alle 6 del mattino del 29 aprile il 99% della rete elettrica spagnola era già attiva, mentre in Portogallo la piena operatività è stata raggiunta entro la mezzanotte. Le cause del blackout restano in fase di accertamento. Tra le ipotesi al vaglio figurano un possibile cyberattacco (secondo l’Incibe) e le cosiddette “vibrazioni atmosferiche indotte”, suggerite dal gestore REN ma smentite dall’Agenzia meteorologica spagnola. Il premier Sánchez ha invitato alla cautela, mentre il primo ministro portoghese ha indicato l’origine del guasto in Spagna senza avanzare teorie.L’interruzione ha messo in luce la vulnerabilità e l’interdipendenza delle infrastrutture energetiche europee, causando un blocco diffuso delle attività produttive e dei trasporti, e sollevando interrogativi sulla sicurezza dell’approvvigionamento elettrico nel continente. Facciamo chiarezza con Alberto Berizzi professore di sistemi elettrici per l'energia al Politecnico di Milano.

Keen On Democracy
Episode 2516: Jason Pack on the Trumpian Post-Apocalypse

Keen On Democracy

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 43:15


Americans, it's time to move to Europe! The American geo-strategist Jason Pack anticipated last week's advice from Simon Kuper and moved to London a few years ago during the first Trump Presidency. Pack, the host of the excellent Disorder podcast, confesses to be thrilled to have escaped MAGA America. He describes the esthetics of contemporary Washington DC as "post-apocalyptic" and criticizes what he sees as the Trump administration's hostile atmosphere, ideological purity tests, and institutional destruction. Contrasting this with Europe's ideological fluidity, Pack warns that Trump's isolationist policies are increasing global disorder by fundamentally undermining America's global leadership role with its erstwhile European allies. Five Key Takeaways* Pack left America because he found the "esthetics" of working in policy and media spaces increasingly distasteful, particularly during Trump's first administration.* He argues that European political systems allow for greater ideological fluidity, while American politics demands strict partisan loyalty.* Pack describes Washington DC as "post-apocalyptic" with institutions functioning like zombies - going through motions without accomplishing anything meaningful.* Unlike European populists who want to control institutions, Pack believes Trump's administration aims to destroy government institutions entirely.* Pack warns that America's deteriorating relationships with traditional allies is creating a "rudderless world" with increased global disorder and potential for conflict. Full TranscriptAndrew Keen: Hello, everybody. Over the last few days, we've been focusing on the impressions of America, of Trump's America around the world. We had the Financial Times' controversial columnist, Simon Cooper, on the show, arguing that it's the end of the American dream. He had a piece in the FT this week, arguing that it's time to move to Europe for Americans. Not everyone agrees. We had the London-based FT writer Jemima Kelly on the show recently, also suggesting that she hasn't quite given up on America. She is, of course, a Brit living in the UK and looking at America from London. My guest today, another old friend, is Jason Pack. He is the host of the Excellent Disorder podcast. Jason's been on the shows lots of times before. He's an observer of the world's early 21st century disorder. And he is an American living in London. So I'm thrilled that Jason is back on the show. Jason, did you have a chance to look at Simon Cooper's piece? Is it time for Americans to move to Europe?Jason Pack: You've already moved. Well, he's just popularizing what I've believed for eight or 10 years already. So yeah, I looked at the piece. I really enjoyed your podcast with him. I don't think many Americans will move because most Americans are not particularly global in their outlook. And as disenchanted as they will be, their networks of family and of perspective are in America. Some elites in media and finance will move. But for me, I just found the aesthetics of America becoming distasteful when I worked in D.C. during the first Trump administration. And that's why I pursued a European citizenship.Andrew Keen: Jason, it's interesting that you choose the word aesthetics. Two thoughts on that. Firstly, America has never been distinguished for its aesthetics. People never came to America for aesthetics. It's never been a particularly beautiful country, a very dynamic place, a very powerful place. So why do you choose that word aesthetic?Jason Pack: Because for most upper middle class Americans, life under Trump, particularly if they're white and heterosexual, will not change tremendously. But the aesthetics of working in the policy space or in the media will change. Having to deal with all the BS that we hear when we wake up and turn on the TV in the morning, having to interact with Republican nutcase friends who say, oh, the fat is being trimmed by the doge and don't worry about all those people who've been being laid off. The aesthetics of it are ugly and mean. And I have found among some Republican colleagues and friends of mine that they love the vileness of this dog-eat-dog aesthetic.Andrew Keen: Yeah, it's an interesting way of putting it. And I understand exactly what you're saying. I'm less concerned with the aesthetics as with the reality. And my sense in some ways of what's happening is that the Trump people are obsessed with what you call aesthetics. They want to appear mean. I'm not actually sure that they're quite as mean as they'd like to think they are.Jason Pack: Oh, they're pretty mean. I mean, people are running around the NIH offices, according to colleagues of mine. And if you're out to the bathroom and your card is inserted in your computer, they go in, they steal the data from your computer.Andrew Keen: Actually, I take your point. What I meant more by that is that whereas most traditional authoritarian regimes hide their crimes against migrants. They deny wrongdoing. My sense of the Trump regime, or certainly a lot of the people involved in this Trump administration, is that they actually exaggerate it because it gives them pleasure and it somehow benefits their brand. I'm not convinced that they're quite as bad as they'd like to think.Jason Pack: Oh, I agree with that. They make Schadenfreude a principle. They want to showcase that they enjoy other people's pain. It's a bizarre psychological thing. Trump, for example, wanted to show his virility and his meanness, probably because he's an inner coward and he's not that feral. But we digress in terms of the aesthetics of the individual American wanting to leave. I experienced American government, like the State Department, and then, the bureaucracy of the policy space, say think tanks, or even the government relations trade space, say working for oil companies and government relations, as already authoritarian and ass-kissing in America, and the aesthetics of those industries I have always preferred in Europe, and that's only diverging.Andrew Keen: One of the things that always struck me about Washington, D.C. It was always uncomfortable as an imperial city. It always has been since the end of the Second World War, with America dominating the world as being one of two or perhaps the only super power in the world. But Washington, DC seems to always have been uncomfortable wearing its imperial mantle cloak in comparison, I think, to cities like London or Paris. I wonder whether, I'm not sure how much time you've spent back in America since Trump came back to power. I wonder if in that sense DC is trying to catch up with London and Paris.Jason Pack: I actually was giving a briefing in Congress to staffers of the House Foreign Affairs Committee only three weeks ago, and DC seemed post-apocalyptic to me. Many of my favorite restaurants were closing. There was traffic jams at bizarre hours of the day, which I think this is because the Trump people don't know how public transport works and they just ride their cars everywhere. So, yes, it seemed very bizarre being back. You were trying to gauge the interlocutor you were speaking to, were they merely pretending to be on board with Trump's stuff, but they actually secretly think it's ridiculous, or were they true believers? And you had to assess that before you would make your comments. So there is a slide to a kind of, again, neo-authoritarian aesthetic. In my conference, it became clear that the Republican Congressional staffers thought that it was all junk and that Trump doesn't care about Libya and he doesn't understand these issues. But we needed to make lip service in how we expressed our recommendations. So, fascinatingly, various speakers said, oh, there's a transactional win. There's a way that cheaper oil can be gotten here or we could make this policy recommendation appeal to the transactional impulses of the administration. Even though everyone knew that we were speaking in a Democrat echo-chamber where the only Republicans present were anti-Trump Republicans anyway.Andrew Keen: Describe DC as post-apocalyptic. What exactly then, Jason, is the apocalypse?Jason Pack: I don't think that the Trump people who are running the show understand how government works and whether you're at state or the NIH or USAID, you're kind of under siege and you're just doing what you're supposed to do and going through the motions. I mean, there's so much of like the zombie apocalypse going on. So maybe it's more zombie apocalypse than regular apocalypse, whereby the institutions are pretending to do their work, but they know that it doesn't accomplish anything. And the Trumpian appointees are kind of pretending to kind of cancel people on DAI, but the institutions are still continuing.Andrew Keen: I'm going to vulgarize something you said earlier. You talked about Trump wanting to appear bigger than he actually is. Maybe we might call that small penis syndrome. Is that, and then that's my term, Jason, let's be clear, not yours. Maybe it's fair or not. He probably would deny it, but I don't think he'll come on this show. He's more than welcome. Is that also reflected in the people working for him? Is there a bit of a small penis syndrome going on with a lot of the Trump people? Are they small town boys coming to America, coming to D.C. And in all their raison d'état trying to smash up the world that they always envied?Jason Pack: 100%. If you look at the Tucker Carlson and the Hegset, who went to Princeton in 03, and obviously Tucker Carlsen's WASP elite background is well known, they wanted to make it conventionally and couldn't. Hegson didn't achieve the rank of lieutenant general or colonel or anything in the army. He didn't make it in finance and Vance, obviously had just a minor career in finance, they didn't make the big time except through their hate and resentment of the establishment that succeeded on merit. So, I mean, you could call that small penis syndrome. I think another thing to point out is that many of them have been selected because whether they've been accused of rape or financial crimes or just meanness, they owe the great leader their ability to be in that position. And if he would throw them overboard they're entirely exposed, so that cash patels of the world and the Hexeds of the world serve at the mercy of the great leader, because if they were thrown to the wolves, they could be devoured for their misdeeds. And I think that that makes it a place where it's all about loyalty to the boss. But maybe we could pivot to the initial topic about how I think Europe is a place where you can reinvent yourself as an individual now. Certainly in the political and ideology space, and America really hasn't been for much of my left.Andrew Keen: Yeah, it's interesting. And this is how actually our conversation you're doing. You're a much better podcast host than I am, Jason. You're reminding us of the real conversation rather than getting led down one Trumpian byway or another. I did a show recently on why I still believe in the American dream. And I was interviewed by my friend, David Maschiottra, another old friend of the show. And I suggested I originally came to America to reinvent myself and that's always been the platform with which Europeans have come to America. You're suggesting that perhaps the reverse is true now.Jason Pack: I really enjoyed that episode. I thought you were a great guest and he was a natural host. But I realized how it wasn't speaking to me. Many of my European friends who work in law, finance, tech, startup, you know, they finished their degrees in Italy or in England and they moved to America. And that's where they raised venture capital and they go on the exact success trajectory that you explained and they fetishize, oh my God, when my green card is gonna come through, I'm gonna have this big party. That never resonated with me because America was never a land of opportunity for me. And it hit me in hearing your podcast that that's because what I've aspired to is to work in government slash think tank or to be a professional expert. And if you don't ally yourself with one of the major political movements, you're always branded and you can never move ahead. I'll give a few examples if you're interested in the way that my trying to be in the center has meant that I could never find a place in America.Andrew Keen: Absolutely. So you're suggesting that your quote-unquote American dream could only be realized in Europe.Jason Pack: So I moved to the Middle East to serve my country after 9/11. If Gore had been elected president, I likely would have joined the army or the Marines or something. But Bush was president and I knew I needed to do this on my own. So, you know, I lived in Beirut, then I went to Iraq. Where did you graduate from, Jason? I graduated from Williams in 2002, but I was changing my studies as soon as the 9-11 happened. I stopped my senior thesis in biology and I pivoted to doing the Middle East. I thought the Middle East was going to be the next big thing. But I didn't realize that if you wanted to do it your own way, for example, living in Syria prior to working in government, then you couldn't get those security clearances. But in the UK, that's not really a problem. If you go to Leeds or Oxford and you got sent to study Arabic in Syria, you can work for the UK government, but not in America. If your went and did that your own way, your loyalties would be questioned. You wouldn't get your security clearance. I got an internship to work at the U.S. Embassy in Muscat, where I fell afoul of my supervisors because I was someone who wanted to speak in Arabic with Omanis and, for example, go to hear prayers at the mosque and really be a part of the society. And I was told, don't do that. But aren't we here to understand about Oman? And they're like, no, it's really important to mostly socialize with people at the embassy. But my British colleagues, they were out there in Omani society, and they were, for example, really participating in stuff because the relationship between the Omanis and the Brits and the Americans is a happy one. That's just a small example, but I wanna make the kind of further point, which is that if you wanna get promoted in think tank world in America, it doesn't matter whether it's Cato or Heritage on the right or New America Foundation or Middle East Institute on the left. You have to buy in hook, line, and sinker to the party line of those institutions. And if that party line is DEI, as it was at the Middle East Institute when I was there, and you're a white heterosexual male, you're not going to get promoted. And if, for example, you want to then interact with some Zionist think tank like FDD, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, I was going to a fellowship there for work that I had done about monitoring ISIS in Libya, and they had proposed a funding line for my project, which was just technically reading jihadi Facebook posts and monitoring them. And then they did some more research on me, ironically, after we had already signed the funds. And they said, oh, we're so sorry, we are going to have to pull back on this. We are going have to pay you a kill fee. We are really, really sorry. And I came to understand why that was. And it was because I had advocated that the Iranians should be allowed to get the bomb so that they could have mutually assured destruction theory with Israel.Andrew Keen: Well, Jason, I take your point, but everyone has their own narrative when it comes to why their career didn't did or didn't take off and how they know what that doesn't happen in Europe. I'm just making a contrast. Let me just come back to my argument about America, which is it isn't necessarily as straightforward as perhaps at first it seems. I think one of the reasons why America has always been a great place for reinvention is because of the absence of memory.Jason Pack: No, but what I'm saying is Google will inspire on you, and if you're not within the ideological cadre, you cannot progress at these kind of institutions.Andrew Keen: Okay, I take your point on that, but thinking more broadly, America is a place where you can, I've done so many different things in this country from being a scholar to being an internet entrepreneur to being an expert on technology to being a critic of technology to being against podcasts, to being a podcaster. And you can get away, and I've failed in practically all of them, if not all of them, but the fact is that because people don't have memory, you can keep on doing different things and people won't say, well, how can you get away with this? Last week you were doing X. My sense, and maybe correct me if I'm wrong about London or Europe, is there is much more memory. You can't get away with perpetual reinvention in Europe as you can in the U.S. and maybe that's because of the fact that in your language, living in Europe with its memory and respect for memory is more aesthetically pleasing. So I'm not suggesting this is as simple as it might appear.Jason Pack: I agree with that last point, but I think I'm trying to bring something else out. In spheres like tech or podcasting, there isn't credentialism in America. And therefore, if you're just good at it, you don't need the credentials and you can get going. And you and other Europeans who had great merit, as you do, have benefited from that. And in Europe, you might run up against credentialism, but, oh, but you didn't work at the BBC, so you don't get the job. I'm making a different point about ideological purity within the very specific realms of, say, working for an American presidential candidate or briefing a policymaker or rising up at a think tank. I have briefed labor MPs, Lib Dem MPs and Tory MPs. And they don't ask my politics. I can go in there and get a meeting with Keir Starmer's people on Libya, and they don't care about the fact that I want him to do something slightly different. Criticized him and praised him at different times on my podcast, try having an influence with some Trump people and then say, Oh, well, you know, I really think that I can help you on this Libya policy, but I happened to run a fairly anti-Trump podcast. No, you just can't get the briefing because America is about ideological purity tests and getting your ticket punch in the government and think tank and exporting professions, and therefore it's not some place you can reinvent yourself. If you're clearly an anti-Trump Republican McCainite, you can't all of a sudden become an AOC Democrat for the purpose of one meeting. But in Europe you can, because you can be a Lib Dem like Liz Truss and then be a Tory Prime Minister. And no one cares what my position on these topics are when they ask me to brief Keir Starmer's people and that's something that I find so fantastic about Europe.Andrew Keen: Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, you know this stuff better than I do. But isn't someone like Truss rooted in ideological purity? She was a Lib Dem when she was at Oxford. Yeah, but that was a long time ago. I can reverse that, Jason, and say, well, when Trump was young, he ran around with Bill and Hillary Clinton, he went to their wedding, he funded them. He never was even a Republican until 2014 or 15. So, I mean, he's an example of the very ideological fluidity that you idealize in Europe.Jason Pack: I agree with your point. I think that he's an exception there and he wouldn't have allowed it from his staffers. They now have essentially loyalty tested everything. It's not a place where if you were Democrat with ideas that would benefit the Trumpian establishment, you can be heard. I'll give an example. I like the Abraham Accords and I have a colleague who wants to help extend the Abraham Accords to Pakistan, she can only work with ideologically pure Republicans in the pitching of this idea. She can't work with someone like me because I don't have the ideological purity, even though this is a nonpartisan idea and it should be embraced if you can get the Trumpians to be interested in it. But that's not how America works and it has not been. Reagan, of course, if you said that you like taxes, and I'm someone who likes taxes and I don't believe in the Laffer curve, and neoliberalism is a sham, you couldn't be on that economic team. So there are different ideological tests. Trump was never a politician, so he's not an expert like me in the expert class where we've been litmus tested our whole careers.Andrew Keen: Interesting. Jason, yesterday I was talking to someone who was thinking of hiring me to do a speech in Europe to a business group, and we were discussing the kinds of speeches I could give, and one of the things I suggested was a defense of America, suggesting that we can believe in America and that everyone's wrong. And these people have hired me before. I've often made provocative counterintuitive arguments, there was a little bit of a silence and they said, you can't make that speech in Europe. No one will take it seriously to a business community. What's generally, I mean, you travel a lot, you talk to lots of different people. Have people really given up on the promise of America, particularly within the establishment, the business establishment, the political establishment?Jason Pack: I don't know. I think that many Europeans still think that this is a passing phase. I will comment on the fact that I do not see anti-Americanism in my daily life as a result of Trump, the way that, for example, you do see anti-Semitism as a results of Netanyahu's policy. The individual Jew is tarred by horrible things happening in Gaza, but the individual American is not tarred by the deporting and illegal detentions and sacking of people by Doge because people in Poland or London or even the Middle East understand that you're likely to not be a Trump supporter and they're not targeting you as an individual as a result of that. So I think they believe in the promise of America and they still might like to move to America. But on individual level if you want to be a political animal inside the beast of campaigns, rising up to be a David Axelrod kind of figure. America has been a place of these litmus tests. Whereas in Europe, you know, I feel that there's tremendous fluidity because in Italy they have so and so many political parties and in Germany, what's the distinction between the SPD at one moment in the CDU and the Greens and there's a tradition of coalitions that allows the individual to reinvent himself.Andrew Keen: One of the things that came up with Cooper, and he's certainly no defender of Marine Le Pen or Meloni in Italy, but he suggested that the Trump people are far to the right of Le Pen and Meloni. Would you agree with that?Jason Pack: Because they want to break down institutions, whereas Le Pen and Meloni simply want to conquer the institutions and use them. They're not full-blown, disordering neopopulists, to use the language of my disorder podcast. When Meloni is in power, she loves the Italian state and she wants it to function merely with her ideological slant. Whereas the Trumpians, they have a Bannonite wing, they don't simply wanna have a MAGA agenda, use the U.S. Government. No, they want to break the Department of Agriculture. They want to break the EPA. They simply want to destroy our institutions. And there's no European political party that wants that. Maybe on the fringe like reform, but reform probably doesn't even want that.Andrew Keen: But Jason, we've heard so much about how the Bannonites idealized Orban in Hungary. A lot of people believe that Project 2025 was cooked up in Budapest trying to model America on Orban. Is there any truth to that? I mean, are the Trump people really re-exporting Orbanism back into the United States?Jason Pack: That there is some truth, but it can be overplayed. It can go back further to Berlusconi. It's the idea that a particularly charismatic political leader can come to dominate the media landscape by either having a state media channel in the Berlusconi sense or cowing media coverage to make it more favorable, which is something that Orban has done geniusly, and then doling out contracts and using the state for patronage, say, Orban's father's construction business and all those concrete soccer stadiums. There is an attempt potentially in Trump land to, through an ideological project, cow the media and the checks and balances and have a one-party state with state media. I think it's going to be difficult for them to achieve, but Chuck Carlson and others and Bannon seem to want that.Andrew Keen: You were on Monocle recently talking about the Pope's death. J.D. Vance, of course, is someone who apparently had a last, one of the last conversations with the Pope. Pope wasn't particularly, Pope Francis wasn't particularly keen on him. Bannon and Vance are both outspoken Catholics. What's your take on the sort of this global religious movement on the part of right-wing Catholics, and how does it fit in, not only to the death of Francis, but perhaps the new Pope?Jason Pack: It's a very interesting question. I'm not a right-wing Catholic, so I'm really not in a position to...Andrew Keen: I thought you were Jason, that's why you could always come on the show.Jason Pack: I think that they don't have the theological bona fides to say that what they call Catholicism is Catholicism because obviously Jesus turned the other cheek, you know, and Jesus didn't want to punish his enemies and make poor black or Hispanic women suffer. But there is an interesting thing that has been going on since 1968, which is that there was a backlash against the student protests and free love and the condom and all the social changes that that brought about. And Catholics have been at the forefront, particularly Catholic institutions, in saying this has gone too far and we need to use religion to retake our society. And if we don't, no one will have children and we will lose out and the Muslims and Africans will rule the roost because they're having babies. And that right-wing Catholicism is caught up in the moral panic and culture wars since 1968. What I argued in the monocle interview that you referenced from earlier today is something quite different, which is that the Catholic Church has a unique kind of authority, and that that unique kind of authority can be used to stand up against Trump, Bannon, Orban, and other neopopulists in a way that, say, Mark Carney or Keir Starmer cannot, because if Mark Kearney and Keir Stormer say, you guys are not sufficiently correctly American and you're not following the American laws, blah, blah blah, the kind of Americans who support Trump are not convinced by that because they say, these are just, you know, pinko Brits and Canadians. I don't even care about Mark Kearny, but it's quite different if the next Pontiff is someone who comes not only from the school of Francis, but maybe more so is a great communicator vested in the real doctrines of the church, the Lateran Councils and Vatican too, and can say, actually this given thing that Trump has just said is not in line with the principles of Jesus. It's not inline with what the Vatican has said about, for example, migration or social equity. And I find that that is a unique opportunity because even the right-wing Catholics have to acknowledge the Pope and Christian doctrine and the ability of the Catholic hierarchy to say this is not in line with our teachings. So I think there's a very interesting opportunity right now.Andrew Keen: Perhaps that brings to mind Stalin's supposedly famous remarks to Churchill at Potsdam when they were talking about the Pope. Stalin said to Churchill, the Pope, how many divisions does he have? In other words, it's all about ideology, morality, and ultimately it doesn't really. It's the kind of thing that perhaps if some of the Trump people were as smart as Stalin, they might make the same remark.Jason Pack: That was a physical war, and the Pope didn't have divisions to sway the battles in World War II, but this is an ideological or an influence war. And the Pope, if you've just seen from media coverage over the last week, is someone who has tremendous media influence. And I do think that the new pontiff could, if he wanted to, stand up to the moral underpinnings of Trump and pull even the most right-wing Catholics away from a Trumpian analysis. Religion is supposed to be about, because Jesus didn't say punish your enemies. Don't turn the other cheek and own the libs. Jesus said something quite different than that. And it will be the opportunity of the new Catholic leader to point that out.Andrew Keen: I'm not sure if you've seen the movie Conclave, which was very prescient, made by my dear London friend, or at least produced by Tessa Ross at House Productions. But I wonder in these new conversations whether in the debates about who should the new Pope be, they'll mull over TikTok presence.Jason Pack: I hope they will. And I want to point out something that many people probably are not aware, which is that the College of Cardinals that constitutes the conclave does not have to pick one of their member to be pope. For the last six centuries, they have always chosen one of their own number, but they don't have to. So they could choose someone who has not only an ability to make great TikToks, but someone who can put forth a vision about climate change, about tax equity, for example, maybe about AI and what constitutes humanity from within the Catholic tradition, but reaching new faithful. And I think that they might actually consider we're doing this because in places like Western Europe, attendance is down, but in Eastern Europe and Latin America, it isn't. And in Africa, it's surging. So they may want to reach new millennials in Gen Z with a new message, but one which is rooted in their tradition. And I think that that would be a great counterbalance to what Trump and his ilk have done to how media coverage place things like climate change and migrants these days.Andrew Keen: Speaking of Trump and his ilk, Jason, lots of conversations here about the first cracks in his monolith. Speaking to me from London, I always look at the front page of The Telegraph, a conservative English newspaper. I refuse to give the money, so I never actually read any of the pieces. But I'm always curious as to the traditional conservative media attitude to Trump. What do not so much the Conservative Party, which seems to be in crisis in the UK, but what does Conservative media, Conservative thinkers, what's their take currently on Trump? Are you seeing a crack? Are people seeing this guy's absolutely insane and that the tariff policy is going to make all of us, everybody in the world poorer?Jason Pack: Well, Trump has always been a vote loser in the UK. So that even though Farage brags about his relationship, it isn't something that gets him more votes for reform. And whether it's Sunak or Badnak, and Badnak is the current leader of the Tory party, which is an opposition, she can't so closely associate herself with Trump because he's not popular in even right-wing British circles. However, the Tory media, like the telegraph and the spectator, they love the idea that he's owning the Libs. We talked about Schadenfreude, we talked about attacking the woke. The spectator has taken a very anti-woke turn over the last five to 10 years. And they love the ideal of pointing out the hypocrisies of the left and the effeminacy of it and all of that. And that gets them more clicks. So from a media perspective, there is a way in which the Murdoch media is always going to love the click bait, New York post bait of the Trump presidency. And that applies very much, you know, with the sun and the Daily Mail and the way that they cover media in this country.Andrew Keen: Although I was found in the U.S. That perhaps the newspaper that has been most persistently and usefully critical of Trump is the Wall Street Journal, which is owned by Murdoch.Jason Pack: Yeah, but that's a very highbrow paper, and I think that it's been very critical of the tariff policy and it said a lot of intelligent things about Trump's early missteps. It doesn't reach the same people as the New York Post or the Daily Mail do.Andrew Keen: Finally, Jason, let's go back to Disorder, your excellent podcast. You started it a couple of years ago before this new Trump madness. You were always one of the early people on this global disorder. How much more disordered can the world become? Of course, it could become more disorded in terms of war. In late April 2025, is the world more disordered than it was in April 2024, when Biden was still in power? I mean, we still have these wars in Gaza, in Ukraine, doesn't seem as if that much has changed, or am I wrong?Jason Pack: I take your point, but I'm using disorder in a particularly technical sense in a way by which I mean the inability of major powers to coordinate together for optimal solutions. So in the Biden days of last year, yes, the Ukraine and Gaza wars may be waging, but if Jake Sullivan or Blinken were smarter or more courageous, they could host a summit and work together with their French and British and Argentinian allies. Put forth some solutions. The world is more disordered today because it doesn't have a leader. It doesn't have institutions, the UN or NATO or the G7 where those solutions on things like the Ukraine war attacks could happen. And you may say, but wait, Jason, isn't Trump actually doing more leadership? He's trying to bring the Ukrainians and the Russians to the table. And I would say he isn't. They're not proposing actual solutions. They don't care about solving underlying issues. They're merely trying to get media wins. He wants the Japanese to come to Washington to have the semblance of a new trade deal, not a real trade deal. He's trying to reorder global finance in semblance, not in reality. So the ability to come to actual solutions through real coordinating mechanisms where I compromise with you is much weaker than it was last year. And on the Disorder Podcast, we explore all these domains from tax havens to cryptocurrency to cyber attacks. And I think that listeners of Keen On would really enjoy how we delve into those topics and try to see how they reflect where we're at in the global system.Andrew Keen: Yeah, it's a strongly, I would strongly agree with you. I would encourage all keen on listeners to listen to Disorder and vice versa if this gets onto the Disorder podcast. What about the China issue? How structural is the tariff crisis, if that's the right word, gonna change US relations with China? Is this the new Cold War, Jason?Jason Pack: I'm not an economist, but from what I've been told by the economists I've interviewed on my podcast, it's absolutely completely game changing because whether it's an Apple iPhone or most pieces of manufactured kit that you purchase or inputs into American manufacturing, it's assembled everywhere and the connections between China and America are essential to the global economy. Work and it's not like you can all of a sudden move those supply chains. So this trade war is really a 1930s style beggar thy neighbor approach to things and that led to and deepened the great depression, right? So I am very worried. I had the sense that Trump might back off because he does seem to be very sensitive to the markets. But maybe this is such an ideological project and, you know, Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC was just saying, even though he's willing to back off if the T bill rate changes, he thinks that his strategy is working and that he's going to get some deals. And that terrifies me because that's not what's happening. It isn't working. And God forbid that they'll push this to its logical conclusion and cause a new recession or depression.Andrew Keen: I know you've got to run Jason. So final question, let's return to where we began with America and the changing nature of America. Your last episode of Disorder was with Corey Sharpe, who is a very, very good and one of Washington DC's, I think, smartest foreign policy analysts. She asks, what's America without allies? If this continues, what, indeed, I mean, you're happy in London, so I don't sound like you're coming back, whatever. But what will America become if indeed all these traditional allies, the UK, France, Germany, become, if not enemies, certainly just transactional relationships? What becomes of America without allies?Jason Pack: Wow, great question. I'm gonna treat this in two parts, the American cultural component and then the structural geopolitical component. I'm a proud American. Culturally, I work on Sundays. I don't take any holiday. I get angry at contractors who are not direct. I am going to be American my whole life and I want an American style work ethic and I wanna things to function and the customer to always be right. So I didn't move to Europe to get European stuff in that way, and I think America will still be great at new inventions and at hard work and at all of that stuff and will still, the NFL will still be a much better run sports league than European sports leagues. Americans are great at certain things. The problem is what if America's role in the world as having the reserve currency, coordinating the NATO allies. If that's eviscerated, we're just going to be living more and more in the global enduring disorder, as Corey Schacke points out, which is that the Europeans don't know how to lead. They can't step up because they don't have one prima inter Paris. And since the decline of the British Empire, the British haven't learned how, for example, to coordinate the Europeans for the defense of Ukraine or for making new missile technologies or dealing with the defense industry. So we're just dealing with a rudderless world. And that's very worrying because there could be major conflict. And then I just have to hope that a new American administration, it could be a Republican one, but I think it just can't be a Trumpian one, will go back to its old role of leadership. I haven't lost hope in America. I've just lost hope in this current administration.Andrew Keen: Well, I haven't lost hope in Jason Pack. He is an ally of ours at Keen On. He's the host of the Excellent Disorder podcast. Jason, it's always fun to have you on the show. So much to discuss and no doubt there will be much more over the summer, so we'll have you back on in the next month or two. Thank you so much. Keep well. Stay American in London. Thank you again.Jason Pack: It was a great pleasure. Thanks, Andrew. See you then. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

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24 Mattino - Le interviste

In apertura di terza parte il consueto spazio di commento alle principali notizie di attualità e politica con Paolo Mieli, giornalista, scrittore, storico.Le polemiche sul 25 aprile, il riarmo per l'Ucraina, le critiche al governo Meloni. Questo e molto altro nell'intervista politica di oggi con Fiorella Zabatta, Portavoce Nazionale Europa Verde.

La Loupe
L'actu à La Loupe : La mort du pape François et le moment Meloni

La Loupe

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 7:28


L'actualité qui a retenu l'attention de La Loupe de la semaine, c'est la mort du pape François. Après les hommages, le souverain pontife sera inhumé à Rome ce week-end. Nombre de chefs d'Etat et de gouvernements seront donc présents en Italie. L'occasion pour Giorgia Meloni, la présidente du Conseil italien, d'être au cœur de la politique internationale. Les explications de Cyrille Pluyette, rédacteur en chef adjoint du service Monde de L'Express. Retrouvez tous les détails de l'épisode ici et inscrivez-vous à notre newsletter. L'équipe : Écriture et présentation : Charlotte Baris Réalisation : Sébastien SalisCrédits : Le Figaro Musique et habillage : Emmanuel Herschon / Studio Torrent Logo : Jérémy Cambour Pour nous écrire : laloupe@lexpress.fr Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Hora 25
La Entrevista | El gobierno de Meloni pide sobriedad en la conmemoración de la liberación del fascismo con la excusa de la muerte del Papa

Hora 25

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 2:37


Marisol Rojas analiza la polémica generada en Italia después de que el gobierno de Meloni haya pedido sobriedad en la conmemoración de la liberación del fascismo con la excusa de la muerte del Papa 

ThePrint
OPINION POD: Trump only offers chaos, not clarity. A 90-day tariff pause won't fix strategic stupidity

ThePrint

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 12:39


'In her four-minute address, Meloni unleashed her charm offensive on Trump—delivering a mix of what he wanted to hear (anti-immigration remarks, promises of more Italian investments in the US) and what he didn't (a call to make the West, not just America, great again—implying a revival of Transatlanticism). She also delivered remarkable clarity on the need to defend Ukraine for a just and lasting peace. Whatever followed in the Q&A was inconsequential. She had done her job well', says ThePrint Consulting Editor Swasti Rao in her latest column.     To read column: https://theprint.in/opinion/trump-tariff-pause-chaos/2596639/

Keen On Democracy
Episode 2510: Simon Kuper Celebrates the Death of the American Dream

Keen On Democracy

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2025 32:28


It's official. The American Dream is dead. And it's been resurrected in Europe where, according to the FT columnist Simon Kuper, disillusioned Americans should relocate. Compared with the United States, Kuper argues, Europe offers the three key metrics of a 21st century good life: “four years more longevity, higher self-reported happiness and less than half the carbon emissions per person”. So where exactly to move? The Paris based Kuper believes that his city is the most beautiful in Europe. He's also partial to Madrid, which offers Europe's sunniest lifestyle. And even London, in spite of all its post Brexit gloom, Kuper promises, offers American exiles the promise of a better life than the miserable existence which they now have to eek out in the United States. Five Takeaways* Quality of Life.:Kuper believes European quality of life surpasses America's for the average person, with Europeans living longer, having better physical health, and experiencing less extreme political polarization.* Democratic Europe vs Aristocratic America: While the wealthy can achieve greater fortunes in America, Kuper argues that Europeans in the "bottom 99%" live longer and healthier lives than their American counterparts.* Guns, Anxiety and the Threat of Violence: Political polarization in America creates more anxiety than in Europe, partly because Americans might be armed and because religion makes people hold their views more fervently.* MAGA Madness: Kuper sees Trump as more extreme than European right-wing leaders like Italy's Meloni, who governs as "relatively pro-European" and "pro-Ukrainian."* It's not just a Trump thing. Kuper believes America's declining international credibility will persist even after Trump leaves office, as Europeans will fear another "America First" president could follow any moderate administration.Full TranscriptAndrew Keen: Hello everybody. It's Monday, April the 21st, 2025. This conversation actually might go out tomorrow on the 22nd. Nonetheless, the headlines of the Financial Times, the world's most global economic newspaper, are miserable from an American point of view. US stocks and the dollar are sinking again as Donald Trump renews his attack on the Fed chair Jay Powell. Meanwhile Trump is also attacking the universities and many other bastions of civilization at least according to the FT's political columnist Gideon Rachman. For another FT journalist, my guest today Simon Kuper has been on the show many times before. All this bad news about America suggests that for Americans it's time to move to Europe. Simon is joining us from Paris, which Paris is that in Europe Simon?Simon Kuper: I was walking around today and thinking it has probably never in its history looked as good as it does now. It really is a fabulous city, especially when the sun shines.Andrew Keen: Nice of them where I am in San Francisco.Simon Kuper: I always used to like San Francisco, but I knew it before every house costs $15 million.Andrew Keen: Well, I'm not sure that's entirely true, but maybe there's some truth. Paris isn't exactly cheap either, is it? Certainly where you live.Simon Kuper: Cheaper than San Francisco, so I did for this article that you mentioned, I did some research on house prices and certainly central Paris is one of the most expensive areas in the European Union, but still considerably cheaper than cities like New York and San Francisco. A friend of mine who lives here told me that if she moved to New York, she would move from central Paris to for the same price living in some very, very distant suburb of New York City.Andrew Keen: Your column this week, Americans, it's time to move to Europe. You obviously wrote with a degree of relish. Is this Europe's revenge on America that it's now time to reverse the brain drain from Europe to America? Now it's from America to Europe.Simon Kuper: I mean, I don't see it as revenge. I'm a generally pro-American person by inclination and I even married an American and have children who are American as well as being French and British. So when I went to the US as firstly as a child, age 10, 11, I was in sixth grade in California. I thought it was the most advanced, wonderful place in the world and the sunshine and there was nowhere nice than California. And then I went as a student in my early 20s. And again, I thought this was the early 90s. This is the country of the future. It's so much more advanced than Europe. And they have this new kind of wise technocratic government that is going to make things even better. And it was the beginning of a big American boom of the 90s when I think American quality of life reached its peak, that life expectancy was reached, that was then declined a long time after the late 90s. So my impressions in the past were always extremely good, but no longer. The last 20 years visiting the US I've never really felt this is a society where ordinary people can have as good a life as in Europe.Andrew Keen: When you say ordinary people, I mean, you're not an ordinary person. And I'm guessing most of the people you and your wife certainly isn't ordinary. She's a well known writer. In fact, she's written on France and the United States and parenthood, very well known, you are well known. What do you mean by ordinary people?Simon Kuper: Yeah, I mean, it's not entirely about me. Amazingly, I am not so egomaniac as to draw conclusions on some matters just looking at my own situation. What I wrote about the US is that if you're in the 1% in the US and you are pursuing great wealth in finance or tech and you have a genuine shot at it, you will achieve wealth that you can't really achieve in Europe. You know, the top end of the US is much higher than in Europe. Still not necessarily true that your life will be better. So even rich Americans live shorter than rich Europeans. But OK, so the 1% America really offers greater expansion opportunities than Europe does. Anywhere below that, the Europeans in the bottom 99%, let's say, they live longer than their American equivalents. They are less fat, their bodies function better because they walk more, because they're not being bombarded by processed food in the same way. Although we have political polarization here, it's not as extreme as in the US. Where I quote a European friend of mine who lives in the American South. He says he sometimes doesn't go out of his house for days at a time because he says meeting Trump supporters makes him quite anxious.Andrew Keen: Where does he live? I saw that paragraph in the piece, you said he doesn't, and I'm quoting him, a European friend of mine who lives in the American South sometimes doesn't leave his house for days on end so as to avoid running into Trump supporters. Where does he live?Simon Kuper: He lives, let me say he lives in Georgia, he lives in the state of Georgia.Andrew Keen: Well, is that Atlanta? I mean, Atlanta is a large town, lots of anti-Trump sentiment there. Whereabouts in Georgia?Simon Kuper: He doesn't live in Atlanta, but I also don't want to specify exactly where he lives because he's entitled.Andrew Keen: In case you get started, but in all seriousness, Simon, isn't this a bit exaggerated? I mean, I'm sure there are some of your friends in Paris don't go outside the fancy center because they might run into fans of Marine Le Pen. What's the difference?Simon Kuper: I think that polarization creates more anxiety in the US and is more strongly felt for a couple of reasons. One is that because people might be armed in America, that gives an edge to any kind of disagreement that isn't here in Europe. And secondly, because religion is more of a factor in American life, people hold their views more strongly, more fervently, then. So I think there's a seriousness and edge to the American polarization that isn't quite the same as here. And the third reason I think polarization is worse is movement is more extreme even than European far-right movements. So my colleague John Byrne Murdoch at the Financial Times has mapped this, that Republican views from issues from climate to the role of the state are really off the charts. There's no European party coeval to them. So for example, the far-right party in France, the Rassemblement National, doesn't deny climate change in the way that Trump does.Andrew Keen: So, how does that contextualize Le Pen or Maloney or even the Hungarian neo-authoritarians for whom a lot of Trump supporters went to Budapest to learn what he did in order to implement Trump 2.0?Simon Kuper: Yeah, I think Orban, in terms of his creating an authoritarian society where the universities have been reined in, where the courts have been rained in, in that sense is a model for Trump. His friendliness with Putin is more of a model for Trump. Meloni and Le Pen, although I do not support them in any way, are not quite there. And so Meloni in Italy is in a coalition and is governing as somebody relatively pro-European. She's pro-Ukrainian, she's pro-NATO. So although, you know, she and Trump seem to have a good relationship, she is nowhere near as extreme as Trump. And you don't see anyone in Europe who's proposing these kinds of tariffs that Trump has. So I think that the, I would call it the craziness or the extremism of MAGA, doesn't really have comparisons. I mean, Orban, because he leads a small country, he has to be a bit more savvy and aware of what, for example, Brussels will wear. So he pushes Brussels, but he also needs money from Brussels. So, he reigns himself in, whereas with Trump, it's hard to see much restraint operating.Andrew Keen: I wonder if you're leading American liberals on a little bit, Simon. You suggested it's time to come to Europe, but Americans in particular aren't welcome, so to speak, with open arms, certainly from where you're talking from in Paris. And I know a lot of Americans who have come to Europe, London, Paris, elsewhere, and really struggled to make friends. Would, for Americans who are seriously thinking of leaving Trump's America, what kind of welcome are they gonna get in Europe?Simon Kuper: I mean, it's true that I haven't seen anti-Americanism as strong as this in my, probably in my lifetime. It might have been like this during the Vietnam War, but I was a child, I don't remember. So there is enormous antipathy to, let's say, to Trumpism. So two, I had two visiting Irish people, I had lunch with them on Friday, who both work in the US, and they said, somebody shouted at them on the street, Americans go home. Which I'd never heard, honestly, in Paris. And they shouted back, we're not American, which is a defense that doesn't work if you are American. So that is not nice. But my sense of Americans who live here is that the presumption of French people is always that if you're an American who lives here, you're not a Trumpist. Just like 20 years ago, if you are an American lives here you're not a supporter of George W. Bush. So there is a great amount of awareness that there are Americans and Americans that actually the most critical response I heard to my article was from Europeans. So I got a lot of Americans saying, yeah, yeah. I agree. I want to get out of here. I heard quite a lot of Europeans say, for God's sake, don't encourage them all to come here because they'll drive up prices and so on, which you can already see elements of, and particularly in Barcelona or in Venice, basically almost nobody lives in Venice except which Americans now, but in Barcelona where.Andrew Keen: Only rich Americans in Venice, no other rich people.Simon Kuper: It has a particular appeal to no Russians. No, no one from the gulf. There must be some there must be something. They're not many Venetians.Andrew Keen: What about the historical context, Simon? In all seriousness, you know, Americans have, of course, fled the United States in the past. One thinks of James Baldwin fleeing the Jim Crow South. Could the Americans now who were leaving the universities, Tim Schneider, for example, has already fled to Canada, as Jason Stanley has as well, another scholar of fascism. Is there stuff that American intellectuals, liberals, academics can bring to Europe that you guys currently don't have? Or are intellectuals coming to Europe from the US? Is it really like shipping coal, so to speak, to Newcastle?Simon Kuper: We need them desperately. I mean, as you know, since 1933, there has been a brain drain of the best European intellectuals in enormous numbers to the United States. So in 1933, the best university system in the world was Germany. If you measure by number of Nobel prizes, one that's demolished in a month, a lot of those people end up years later, especially in the US. And so you get the new school in New York is a center. And people like Adorno end up, I think, in Los Angeles, which must be very confusing. And American universities, you get the American combination. The USP, what's it called, the unique selling point, is you have size, you have wealth, you have freedom of inquiry, which China doesn't have, and you have immigration. So you bring in the best brains. And so Europe lost its intellectuals. You have very wealthy universities, partly because of the role of donors in America. So, you know, if you're a professor at Stanford or Columbia, I think the average salary is somewhere over $300,000 for professors at the top universities. In Europe, there's nothing like that. Those people would at least have to halve their salary. And so, yeah, for Europeans, this is a unique opportunity to get some of the world's leading brains back. At cut price because they would have to take a big salary cut, but many of them are desperate to do it. I mean, if your lab has been defunded by the government, or if the government doesn't believe in your research into climate or vaccines, or just if you're in the humanities and the government is very hostile to it, or, if you write on the history of race. And that is illegal now in some southern states where I think teaching they call it structural racism or there's this American phrase about racism that is now banned in some states that the government won't fund it, then you think, well, I'll take that pay cost and go back to Europe. Because I'm talking going back, I think the first people to take the offer are going to be the many, many top Europeans who work at American universities.Andrew Keen: You mentioned at the end of Europe essay, the end of the American dream. You're quoting Trump, of course, ironically. But the essay is also about the end of the America dream, perhaps the rebirth or initial birth of the European dream. To what extent is the American dream, in your view, and you touched on this earlier, Simon, dependent on the great minds of Europe coming to America, particularly during and after the, as a response to the rise of Nazism, Hannah Arendt, for example, even people like Aldous Huxley, who came to Hollywood in the 1930s. Do you think that the American dream itself is in part dependent on European intellectuals like Arendt and Huxley, even Ayn Rand, who not necessarily the most popular figure on the left, but certainly very influential in her ideas about capitalism and freedom, who came of course from Russia.Simon Kuper: I mean, I think the average American wouldn't care if Ayn Rand or Hannah Arendt had gone to Australia instead. That's not their dream. I think their American dream has always been about the idea of social mobility and building a wealthy life for yourself and your family from nothing. Now almost all studies of social ability say that it's now very low in the US. It's lower than in most of Europe. Especially Northern Europe and Scandinavia have great social mobility. So if you're born in the lower, say, 10% or 20% in Denmark, you have a much better chance of rising to the top of society than if you were born at the bottom 10%, 20% in the US. So America is not very good for social mobility anymore. I think that the brains that helped the American economy most were people working in different forms of tech research. And especially for the federal government. So the biggest funder of science in the last 80 years or so, I mean, the Manhattan Project and on has been the US federal government, biggest in the world. And the thing is you can't eat atom bombs, but what they also produce is research that becomes hugely transformative in civilian life and in civilian industries. So GPS or famously the internet come out of research that's done within the federal government with a kind of vague defense angle. And so I think those are the brains that have made America richer. And then of course, the number of immigrants who found companies, and you see this in tech, is much higher than the number percentage of native born Americans who do. And a famous example of that is Elon Musk.Andrew Keen: Yeah, and you were on the show just before Christmas in response to your piece about Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid in South Africa. So I'm guessing you don't want the Musks and Thiels. They won't be welcome in Europe, will they?Simon Kuper: I don't think they want to go. I mean, if you want to create a tech company, you want very deep capital markets. You want venture capital firms that are happy to bet a few billion on you. And a very good place to do that, the best place in the world by far, is Silicon Valley. And so a French friend of mine said he was at a reception in San Francisco, surrounded by many, many top French engineers who all work for Silicon Valley firms, and he thought, what would it take them to come back? He didn't have an answer. Now the answer might be, maybe, well, Donald Trump could persuade them to leave. But they want to keep issuing visas for those kinds of people. I mean, the thing is that what we're seeing with Chinese AI breakthroughs in what was called DeepSeek. Also in overtaking Tesla on electric cars suggests that maybe, you know, the cutting edge of innovation is moving from Silicon Valley after nearly 100 years to China. This is not my field of expertise at all. But you know the French economist Thomas Filippon has written about how the American economy has become quite undynamic because it's been taken over by monopolies. So you can't start another Google, you can start another Amazon. And you can't build a rival to Facebook because these companies control of the market and as Facebook did with WhatsApp or Instagram, they'll just buy you up. And so you get quite a much more static tech scene than 30 years ago when really, you know, inventions, great inventions are being made in Silicon Valley all the time. Now you get a few big companies that are the same for a very long period.Andrew Keen: Well, of course, you also have OpenAI, which is a startup, but that's another conversation.Simon Kuper: Yeah, the arguments in AI is that maybe China can do it better.Andrew Keen: Can be. I don't know. Well, it has, so to speak, Simon, the light bulb gone off in Europe on all this on all these issues. Mario Draghi month or two ago came out. Was it a white paper or report suggesting that Europe needed to get its innovation act together that there wasn't enough investment or capital? Are senior people within the EU like Draghi waking up to the reality of this historical opportunity to seize back economic power, not just cultural and political.Simon Kuper: I mean, Draghi doesn't have a post anymore, as far as I'm aware. I mean of course he was the brilliant governor of the European Central Bank. But that report did have a big impact, didn't it? It had a big impact. I think a lot of people thought, yeah, this is all true. We should spend enormous fortunes and borrow enormous fortunes to create a massive tech scene and build our own defense industries and so on. But they're not going to do it. It's the kind of report that you write when you don't have a position of power and you say, this is what we should do. And the people in positions of power say, oh, but it's really complicated to do it. So they don't do it, so no, they're very, there's not really, we've been massively overtaken and left behind on tech by the US and China. And there doesn't seem to be any impetus, serious impetus to build anything on that scale to invest that kind of money government led or private sector led in European tech scene. So yeah, if you're in tech. Maybe you should be going to Shanghai, but you probably should not be going to Europe. So, and this is a problem because China and the US make our future and we use their cloud servers. You know, we could build a search engine, but we can't liberate ourselves from the cloud service. Defense is a different matter where, you know, Draghi said we should become independent. And because Trump is now European governments believe Trump is hostile to us on defense, hostile to Ukraine and more broadly to Europe, there I think will be a very quick move to build a much bigger European defense sector so we don't have to buy for example American planes which they where they can switch off the operating systems if they feel like it.Andrew Keen: You live in Paris. You work for the FT, or one of the papers you work for is the FT a British paper. Where does Britain stand here? So many influential Brits, of course, went to America, particularly in the 20th century. Everyone from Alfred Hitchcock to Christopher Hitchens, all adding enormous value like Arendt and Ayn Rand. Is Britain, when you talk of Europe, are you still in the back of your mind thinking of Britain, or is it? An island somehow floating or stuck between America, the end of the American dream and the beginning of the European dream. In a way, are you suggesting that Brits should come to Europe as well?Simon Kuper: I think Britain is floating quite rapidly towards Europe because in a world where you have three military superpowers that are quite predatory and are not interested in alliances, the US, China and Russia, the smaller countries, and Britain is a smaller country and has realized since Brexit that it is a small country, the small countries just need to ally. And, you know, are you going to trust an alliance with Trump? A man who is not interested in the fates of other countries and breaks his word, or would you rather have an alliance with the Europeans who share far more of your values? And I think the Labor government in the UK has quietly decided that, I know that it has decided that on economic issues, it's always going to prioritize aligning with Europe, for example, aligning food standards with Europe so that we can sell my food. They can sell us our food without any checks because we've accepted all their standards, not with the US. So in any choice between, you know, now there's talk of a potential US-UK trade deal, do we align our standards with the US. Or Europe? It's always going to be Europe first. And on defense, you have two European defense powers that are these middle powers, France and the UK. Without the UK, there isn't really a European defense alliance. And that is what is gonna be needed now because there's a big NATO summit in June, where I think it's going to become patently obvious to everyone, the US isn't really a member of NATO anymore. And so then you're gonna move towards a post US NATO. And if the UK is not in it, well, it looks very, very weak indeed. And if UK is alone, that's quite a scary position to be in in this world. So yeah, I see a UK that is not gonna rejoin the European Union anytime soon. But is more and more going to ally itself, is already aligning itself with Europe.Andrew Keen: As the worm turned, I mean, Trump has been in power 100 days, supposedly is limited to the next four years, although he's talking about running for a third term. Can America reverse itself in your view?Simon Kuper: I think it will be very hard whatever Trump does for other countries to trust him again. And I also think that after Trump goes, which as you say may not be in 2028, but after he goes and if you get say a Biden or Obama style president who flies to Europe and says it's all over, we're friends again. Now the Europeans are going to think. But you know, it's very, very likely that in four years time, you will be replaced by another America first of some kind. So we cannot build a long term alliance with the US. So for example, we cannot do long term deals to buy Americans weapons systems, because maybe there's a president that we like, but they'll be succeeded by a president who terrifies us quite likely. So, there is now, it seems to me, instability built in for the very long term into... America has a potential ally. It's you just can't rely on this anymore. Even should Trump go.Andrew Keen: You talk about Europe as one place, which, of course, geographically it is, but lots of observers have noted the existence, it goes without saying, of many Europe's, particularly the difference between Eastern and Western Europe.Simon Kuper: I've looked at that myself, yes.Andrew Keen: And you've probably written essays on this as well. Eastern Europe is Poland, perhaps, Czech Republic, even Hungary in an odd way. They're much more like the United States, much more interested perhaps in economic wealth than in the other metrics that you write about in your essay. Is there more than one Europe, Simon? And for Americans who are thinking of coming to Europe, should it be? Warsaw, Prague, Paris, Madrid.Simon Kuper: These are all great cities, so it depends what you like. I mean, I don't know if they're more individualistic societies. I would doubt that. All European countries, I think, could be described as social democracies. So there is a welfare state that provides people with health and education in a way that you don't quite have in the United States. And then the opposite, the taxes are higher. The opportunities to get extremely wealthy are lower here. I think the big difference is that there is a part of Europe for whom Russia is an existential threat. And that's especially Poland, the Baltics, Romania. And there's a part of Europe, France, Britain, Spain, for whom Russia is really quite a long way away. So they're not that bothered about it. They're not interested in spending a lot on defense or sending troops potentially to die there because they see Russia as not their problem. I would see that as a big divide. In terms of wealth, I mean, it's equalizing. So the average Pole outside London is now, I think, as well off or better than the average Britain. So the average Pole is now as well as the average person outside London. London, of course, is still.Andrew Keen: This is the Poles in the UK or the Poles.Simon Kuper: The Poles in Poland. So the Poles who came to the UK 20 years ago did so because the UK was then much richer. That's now gone. And so a lot of Poles and even Romanians are returning because economic opportunities in Poland, especially, are just as good as in the West. So there has been a little bit of a growing together of the two halves of the continent. Where would you live? I mean, my personal experience, having spent a year in Madrid, it's the nicest city in the world. Right, it's good. Yeah, nice cities to live in, I like living in big cities, so of big cities it's the best. Spanish quality of life. If you earn more than the average Spaniard, I think the average income, including everyone wage earners, pensioners, students, is only about $20,000. So Spaniards have a problem with not having enough income. So if you're over about $20000, and in Madrid probably quite a bit more than that, then it's a wonderful life. And I think, and Spaniards live about five years longer than Americans now. They live to about age 84. It's a lovely climate, lovely people. So that would be my personal top recommendation. But if you like a great city, Paris is the greatest city in the European Union. London's a great, you know, it's kind of bustling. These are the two bustling world cities of Europe, London and Paris. I think if you can earn an American salary, maybe through working remotely and live in the Mediterranean somewhere, you have the best deal in the world because Mediterranean prices are low, Mediterranean culture, life is unbeatable. So that would be my general recommendation.Andrew Keen: Finally, Simon, being very generous with your time, I'm sure you'd much rather be outside in Paris in what you call the greatest city in the EU. You talk in the piece about three metrics that show that it's time to move to Europe, housing, education, sorry, longevity, happiness and the environment. Are there any metrics at all now to stay in the United States?Simon Kuper: I mean, if you look at people's incomes in the US they're considerably higher, of course, your purchasing power for a lot of things is less. So I think the big purchasing power advantage Americans have until the tariffs was consumer goods. So if you want to buy a great television set, it's better to do that out of an American income than out of a Spanish income, but if you want the purchasing power to send your kids to university, to get healthcare. Than to be guaranteed a decent pension, then Europe is a better place. So even though you're earning more money in the US, you can't buy a lot of stuff. If you wanna go to a nice restaurant and have a good meal, the value for money will be better in Europe. So I suppose if you wanna be extremely wealthy and you have a good shot at that because a lot people overestimate their chance of great wealth. Then America is a better bet than Europe. Beyond that, I find it hard to right now adduce reasons. I mean, it's odd because like the Brexiteers in the UK, Trump is attacking some of the things that really did make America great, such as this trading system that you can get very, very cheap goods in the United States, but also the great universities. So. I would have been much more positive about the idea of America a year ago, but even then I would've said the average person lives better over here.Andrew Keen: Well, there you have it. Simon Cooper says to Americans, it's time to move to Europe. The American dream has ended, perhaps the beginning of the European dream. Very provocative. Simon, we'll get you back on the show. Your column is always a central reading in the Financial Times. Thanks so much and enjoy Paris.Simon Kuper: Thank you, Andrew. Enjoy San Francisco. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

The John Batchelor Show
#ITALY: TRUMP-WHISPERER MELONI. LORENZO FIORE

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2025 8:54


#ITALY: TRUMP-WHISPERER MELONI. LORENZO FIORE 1700 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

Global News Podcast
Trump and Meloni talk up chances of US trade deal with Europe

Global News Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 31:29


US President Donald Trump says he's 100% sure that he'll strike a trade deal with the European Union, after hosting the Italian PM Giorgia Meloni in Washington. Also: Rico the sloth gets surgery to cure toothache.

Rich Zeoli
Trump Says “There Will Be a Trade Deal, 100%” with European Union

Rich Zeoli

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 173:42


The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (04/17/2025): 3:05pm- According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, President Donald has had private discussion about firing Chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell—accusing Powell of “playing politics” with interest rates. 3:10pm- On Thursday, President Donald Trump hosted Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House where the two discussed a potential trade agreement. While answering questions from the press, Trump insisted “there will be a trade deal, 100%” with the European Union before his 90-day tariff suspension ends. During another notable moment, Trump called Italy “one of our great allies” and joked that there are a lot of Italian Americans and “they like Trump and they voted for Trump.” 3:30pm- Rich shows off a Zeoli Army action figure that was made for him years ago—although, his daughter ripped the head off. Plus, listener Minnie reveals an action figure of Matt—complete with McDonald's and Coca Cola as accessories. 3:40pm- United States District Court Judge James Boasberg has found “probable cause” to hold several Trump Administration officials in criminal contempt over their removal of dangerous migrants who entered the U.S. illegally. 4:05pm- Christopher Ruddy—CEO of Newsmax Media—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his friendship with President Donald Trump and the likelihood we'll soon see fair trade agreements with other countries. Plus, who is the leader of the Democratic Party right now? 4:30pm- Police officials are providing an update on the shooting that occurred at Florida State University. FSU Chief of Police Jason Trumbower confirmed that two people have died, and six others are at a local hospital with gunshot wounds. The shooter was also taken to the hospital. Despite initial reports that there were two shooters, police confirmed the shooter acted alone and there is no further threat to the community. 4:50pm- In posts to social media, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) documented his trip to San Salvador, El Salvador where he hoped to negotiate the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. During an interview with Fox News, Attorney General Pam Bondi emphasized that Abrego Garcia is not a “Maryland man” as the “liberal media” continues to insist. She continued: “He's a guy from El Salvador who is a part of one of the most violent gangs in our country.” 5:00pm- On Thursday, President Donald Trump hosted Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House where the two discussed a potential trade agreement. While answering questions from the press, Trump insisted “there will be a trade deal, 100%” with the European Union before his 90-day tariff suspension ends. During another notable moment, Trump called Italy “one of our great allies” and joked that there are a lot of Italian Americans and “they like Trump and they voted for Trump.” Meanwhile, Meloni told reporters the alliance between Italy and America is important and she hoped to “Make the West Great Again.” 5:20pm- According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, President Donald Trump rejected the idea of assisting Israel with a strike against Iranian nuclear sites. Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Willes “voiced doubts about the attack.” Although expressing some skepticism, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was more open to the idea. 5:40pm- During a “Fight Oligarchy” event, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) unveiled a brand-new fake accent! 6:00pm- Police officials provided an update on the shooting that occurred at Florida State University. FSU Chief of Police Jason Trumbower confirmed that two people have died, and six others are at a local hospital with gunshot wounds. The shooter was also taken to the hospital. Despite initial reports that there were two shooters, police confirmed the shooter acted alone and there is no further threat to the community ...

Rich Zeoli
Meloni: I Want to “Make the West Great Again”

Rich Zeoli

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 43:32


The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: 5:00pm- On Thursday, President Donald Trump hosted Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House where the two discussed a potential trade agreement. While answering questions from the press, Trump insisted “there will be a trade deal, 100%” with the European Union before his 90-day tariff suspension ends. During another notable moment, Trump called Italy “one of our great allies” and joked that there are a lot of Italian Americans and “they like Trump and they voted for Trump.” Meanwhile, Meloni told reporters the alliance between Italy and America is important and she hoped to “Make the West Great Again.” 5:20pm- According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, President Donald Trump rejected the idea of assisting Israel with a strike against Iranian nuclear sites. Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Willes “voiced doubts about the attack.” Although expressing some skepticism, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was more open to the idea. 5:40pm- During a “Fight Oligarchy” event, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) unveiled a brand-new fake accent! Weekday afternoons on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, Rich Zeoli gives the expert analysis and humorous take that we need in this crazy political climate. Along with Executive Producer Matt DeSantis and Justin Otero, the Zeoli show is the next generation of talk radio and you can be a part of it weekday afternoons 3-7pm.

Mock and Daisy's Common Sense Cast
Van Hollen Befriends MS-13, Horrors At FSU, & Austin Metcalfe's Dad At Karmelo Anthony's Presser

Mock and Daisy's Common Sense Cast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 78:21


We dive into the shocking FSU shooting and the media's absolutely gross response, call out CBS for their shameless spin, and break down why Carmelo Anthony's latest drama has us all scratching our heads. We talk Kyle Rittenhouse, Kyle's critics, and the gang affiliations Democrats really don't want to talk about. We're also calling out AOC's wild new accent (seriously, what is happening?), Van Hollen's margarita diplomacy, and the absolute race-baiting queen Rep. Crockett. Plus, Mark Carney can't define gender, Washington State wants to parent your kids, and J.K. Rowling is once again the voice of reason. We've got Joy Reid cult talk, George Clooney's terrible face, and David Hogg whining about sleepy Democrats. 00:00Good morning2:57FSU shooting latest9:35First Fidelity10:54Disgusting spin by MSM13:40Carmelo Anthony press conference descends into chaos24:45Blackout Coffee26:51Dem Senator goes to El Salvador31:35Scott Jennings reacts32:50Dems cannot read a poll41:02Ad41:03Canada PM goes full Bud Light44:11Washington politician is gross and woke47:35Is J.K. Rowling is hateful?49:10Tish James speaks out52:00Ad52:01Melania gets put on a magazine cover52:39Trump and Meloni meet in the White House54:34Lisa Murkowski tries to console57:46Joy Reid dumps on MAGA59:00Clooney takes an interview in a theater and looks sickly61:29Ad61:30David Hogg is in hot water66:34Comedian has beef with Gutfeld70:30Bill Gates' wife speaks out72:01Ad72:02Thank yousSecure your silver today with First Fidelity Reserve. Get your one-ounce .999 fine American Silver Eagle for only $33 + free shipping. Call 800-336-1630 and visit https://www.FirstFidelityReserve.comStart your morning with Blackout Coffee and The Chicks! Bold brews and SO MANY flavors — Blackout with us! Visit https://Blackoutcoffee.com/CHICKS  and use code CHICKS at checkout for 20% off your first order.Visit https://Readywise.com and use code CHICKS10 for 10% off your entire purchase. Prepare when times are good, before things turn bad. Ready Wise Emergency Food.

Trish Intel Podcast

The Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni meets with President Donald Trump at the White House sparking talk of a European Union break up. We have the details. Meanwhile, we knew President Trump was cleaning house… and now, he’s reportedly looking to ditch the Federal Reserve Chief, Jerome Powell! What will THAT mean for markets? We have a look. Remember to get my financial research newsletter and model portpolios at https://76portfolios.com. Meanwhile, George Clooney really knows how to make an A$$ of himself, don’t you think? CNN is rather good at it too.. .and the two of them just teamed up for a new interivew to talk about that now infamous op-ed that ‘took Biden out.’ (Yours truly suspects the CNN anchor had a small hand in it too!) More on those stories plus the latest on the Maryland deportation saga. Join me! LIVE! SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL: https://Youtube.com/TrishReganChannel Become a TEAM MEMBER to get special access and perks: ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/join

Politics Politics Politics
How Should We Describe Trump's First 100 Days? (with Gabe Fleisher)

Politics Politics Politics

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 63:16


In a recent Oval Office meeting, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sat across from Donald Trump as part of a European Union effort to navigate the ongoing trade turbulence. The meeting was cordial enough. Meloni emphasized transatlantic unity and expressed hope for deeper economic collaboration. Trump, however, was unmoved. He praised Meloni personally, but made his stance clear: the U.S. is not in a rush to finalize trade deals. According to him, tariffs are “making the United States rich,” and other countries want deals more than he does.This exchange happened during the 90-day pause in Trump's Liberation Day tariffs — a moment intended, at least in theory, to give global leaders time to negotiate. But what the meeting really signaled is that Trump views this pause as leverage, not compromise. Yes, he did lower EU import tariffs from 20% to 10%, but that move was largely a reaction to bond market jitters. When it comes to negotiating with Europe, he's staying firm.Meloni's presence is notable. She's a controversial figure in Europe — once derided by the American press as a far-right nationalist and compared to Mussolini. But in this moment, she's being positioned as the EU's Trump whisperer. She attended Trump's inauguration. He's reportedly fond of her. He even accepted an invitation to visit Rome. But none of that moved the needle in this meeting.What Trump wants is access to European markets. But in European politics, protectionism isn't just a policy — it's a survival tactic. Leaders there know that anything perceived as selling out local interests could cost them their jobs. Italy, for example, has a trade surplus with the U.S., not because of anything shady, but because Americans genuinely love Italian exports: high-end fashion, food, luxury goods. We buy a lot from them. They don't buy much from us. That's not an imbalance that tariffs alone can fix.So the real question is: what happens next? Trump has all but said he's happy to wait everyone out. That leaves European economies in a holding pattern. It leaves small and medium U.S. businesses — especially those tangled up in international supply chains — in limbo. And it leaves Meloni with the unenviable job of being the friendly face of a negotiation that isn't really moving.Chapters00:00:00 - Intro00:03:13 - Interview with Gabe Fleisher00:23:00 - Update00:23:36 - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Visit00:27:44 - Birthright Citizenship Arguments00:30:05 - FSU Shooting00:31:47 - Interview with Gabe Fleisher, con't00:59:13 - Wrap-up This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/subscribe

Woman's Hour
Meloni meets Trump, Eczema, Girl choristers, Singledom

Woman's Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 57:31


Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni - the first woman to occupy that role - has faced one of her biggest international tests yet. She is the first European leader to go to Washington to meet President Trump since his recent announcement of new tariffs on the EU. So how did Meloni's meeting with Donald Trump go, and how is Giorgia Meloni being seen back home, particularly by Italian women? Kylie Pentelow is joined by Laura Gozzi, Senior News and Foreign Affairs Journalist at the BBC.For the first time in its 900 year history, girls will be singing in the choir at St Paul's Cathedral on Easter Sunday. We hear from some of the girl choristers, and Kylie speaks to Dr Katherine Hambridge, Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Durham and Carris Jones, Vicar Choral and Girls' Voices Project Manager at St Paul's Cathedral about the significance of this moment.Eczema is a complex long-term condition involving the immune system, genetics, skin barrier and the environment. 1 in 5 children and 1 in 10 adults have it. With NHS waiting times for dermatology appointments varying widely depending on location - many young women have taken to social media to talk about the condition, their own skin journeys and share photographs. Kylie is joined by two of them, Chloe Tatton and Katie Mackie, who both grew up with eczema; and Dr Tess McPherson, Consultant Dermatologist from the British Association of Dermatologists and the author of Skin Conditions in Young People.In Emma Gannon's new novel Table for One, the main character Willow learns to embrace the benefits of her new-found singledom after years of being in a relationship - and that includes learning to do typical couple activities, like going out for dinner, alone. Emma joins Kylie to discuss this, alongside expert on all things self-care, psychologist Suzy Reading. Presenter: Kylie Pentelow Producer: Rebecca Myatt

O'Connor & Company
Google Loses in Court, Bernie's Jet-setting Oligarchy Tour, Italian PM Meloni at White House, Catholic Convert Trend

O'Connor & Company

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 28:45


In the 6 AM hour, Larry O’Connor and Emily Domenech discussed: Google Broke the Law to Keep Its Advertising Monopoly, a Judge Rules Bernie Sanders Spent $221K on Private Jets Amid 'Fighting Oligarchy' Tour Trump says '100%' chance US will strike trade deal with Europe as Meloni visits DC Meloni and Musk meet up at the White House Young people are converting to Catholicism en masse — driven by pandemic, internet, ‘lax’ alternatives Where to find more about WMAL's morning show: Follow podcasts on Apple, Audible and Spotify Follow WMAL's "O'Connor and Company" on X: @WMALDC, @LarryOConnor, @JGunlock, @PatricePinkfile, and @HeatherHunterDC Facebook: WMALDC and Larry O'Connor Instagram: WMALDC Website: wmal.com/oconnor-company Episode: Friday, April 18, 2025 / 6 AM HourSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NTD News Today
US Will Drop Ukraine Peace Efforts If No Progress in Coming Days: Rubio; Meloni Meets Vance in Rome

NTD News Today

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 52:36


The United States is optimistic it can put an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine, Vice President JD Vance said on Friday as he met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for the second time in 24 hours. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States may “move on” from trying to secure a Russia–Ukraine peace deal if there is no progress in the coming days. “It's not our war,” Rubio said. “We have other priorities to focus on.” He said the U.S. government will decide its course “in a matter of days.”More than 10,000 pages of previously classified government records related to the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy were released by the Trump administration on Friday.

The Newsmax Daily
Two Dead, Six Injured in FSU Shooting | The NEWSMAX Daily (04/18/25)

The Newsmax Daily

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 23:34


Today's 20-min top headline news brief includes: -Shooters know what they're going to do in advance: Charles Marino [Newsmax Breaking] -President Trump comments on deadly shooting at FSU. [Newsmax Breaking] -'Make the West Great Again': Trump and Meloni talk Ukraine, trade deals in Oval Office. [Newsmax Breaking] -Rachel Morin's mother speaks out with pointed message for MSM. [Finnerty] -Rob Schmitt: Democrats “tethering identity” to protect deported criminal alien. [Rob Schmitt Tonight] Listen to Newsmax LIVE and see our entire podcast lineup at http://Newsmax.com/Listen Make the switch to NEWSMAX today! Get your 15 day free trial of NEWSMAX+ at http://NewsmaxPlus.com Looking for NEWSMAX caps, tees, mugs & more? Check out the Newsmax merchandise shop at : http://nws.mx/shop Follow NEWSMAX on Social Media:     • Facebook: http://nws.mx/FB     • X/Twitter: http://nws.mx/twitter    • Instagram: http://nws.mx/IG     • YouTube: https://youtube.com/NewsmaxTV     • Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsmaxTV     • TRUTH Social: https://truthsocial.com/@NEWSMAX     • GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/newsmax     • Threads: http://threads.net/@NEWSMAX      • Telegram: http://t.me/newsmax      • BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/newsmax.com     • Parler: http://app.parler.com/newsmax Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monocle 24: The Monocle Daily
United States hosts Meloni and La Force pops by Midori House

Monocle 24: The Monocle Daily

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 34:15


We assess the economic indicators taking place in the United States, how Donald Trump received Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and musical artist La Force pops by for a chat. Plus: Andrew Mueller tells us what he learned this week.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cinco continentes
Cinco Continentes - Vance y Meloni se vuelven a ver en Roma

Cinco continentes

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 49:03


Giorgia Meloni es a día de hoy probablemente la única líder de un peso pesado de la UE que tiene buena relación con Donald Trump y su equipo. La sintonía de la primera ministra italiana con la administración estadounidense quedó ayer patente en la Casa Blanca y hoy se ha vuelto a ver cuando ha recibido en Roma al vicepresidente estadounidense JD Vance.En el programa de hoy hablaremos de Ucrania, con un preacuerdo que podría rubricarse definitivamente los próximos días entre Washington y Kiev por los minerales del país ucraniano.También de Yemen, donde se ha registrado un nuevo bombardeo estadounidense contra los hutíes; Sabremos lo mal que lo están pasando los cristianos palestinos en Jerusalén y otras ciudades israelíes, y tendremos una entrevista en la que sabremos que son los informes no nombrados de las dictaduras de Argentina y de Uruguay.Escuchar audio

SBS Italian - SBS in Italiano
Giorgia Meloni a Donald Trump: "Make West Great Again"

SBS Italian - SBS in Italiano

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 14:07


Concluso il bilaterale USA - Italia a Washington: per il giornalista Carlo Fusi "bilancio positivo per la Meloni, nonostante le incertezze della vigilia".

C-SPAN Radio - Washington Today
Mass shooting at FSU; Pres. Trump meets Italian PM Meloni at White House on tariffs; Pres. Trump not saying if he will try to remove Fed Chair

C-SPAN Radio - Washington Today

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 55:13


Mass shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee; President Donald Trump meets Italian PM Georgia Meloni at the White House to discuss trade and tariffs;President Trump is asked about his social media post that Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell's "termination cannot come fast enough", after the Fed Chair said that larger than expected tariffs may cause difficult economic conditions that do not warrant interest rate cuts; President Trump's tariffs are dominating the Canadian national elections debate. We will talk about the state of that race with Reuters Canadian Correspondent David Ljunggren (27); Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says he tried to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the El Salvador prison he was deported to from the U.S., but was denied; Supreme Court says it will hear oral argument next month in a case challenging President Trump's executive order to end 14th Amendment birthright citizenship for the children of people in the U.S. illegally; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attends Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Myer's reenlistment into the U.S. Marines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Al Jazeera - Your World
Italy's Meloni visits the White House, Xi Jinping in Cambodia

Al Jazeera - Your World

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 2:07


Your daily news in under three minutes. At Al Jazeera Podcasts, we want to hear from you, our listeners. So, please head to https://www.aljazeera.com/survey and tell us your thoughts about this show and other Al Jazeera podcasts. It only takes a few minutes! Connect with us: @AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Threads and YouTube

MG Show
A Mother's Pain: Whose Side Are You On?; Trump and Meloni in the Oval Office.

MG Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 115:06


Brace for an explosive episode as @intheMatrixxx and @shadygrooove dive into the heart-wrenching story of a mother's pain, exposing how Democrat policies on illegal immigration fuel tragedies like the murder of Kayla Hamilton by an MS-13 gang member. They challenge listeners: Whose side are you on—victims or the deep state's open-border agenda? Plus, they unpack Trump's powerhouse Oval Office meeting with Italy's Giorgia Meloni, revealing their shared America First and Italy First vision to combat globalist schemes. With the constitution as your weapon, this episode arms you to confront the truth and defend sovereignty. The truth is learned, never told—tune in to the MG Show to expose the real enemies of freedom. Keywords Kayla Hamilton, MS-13, illegal immigration, Democrat policies, Trump, Giorgia Meloni, America First, Italy First, deep state, proven conspiracies, Oval Office, globalism, truth, constitution, @intheMatrixxx, @shadygrooove, MG Show Tune in weekdays at 12pm ET / 9am PST, hosted by @InTheMatrixxx and @Shadygrooove. Catch up on-demand on [Rumble](https://rumble.com/mgshow) or via your favorite podcast platform. **Where to Watch & Listen** - Live on [Rumble](https://rumble.com/mgshow) - [Red State Talk Radio](https://mgshow.link/redstate) - X: [@intheMatrixxx](https://x.com/inthematrixxx) - Backup: [Kick](https://kick.com/mgshow) - PODCASTS: Available on PodBean, Apple, Pandora, and Amazon Music. Search for "MG Show" to listen. **Engage with Us** Join the conversation on [MG Show Channel](https://t.me/mgshowchannel) and participate in live voice chats at [MG Show Chat](https://t.me/MGShow). **Social & Support** - Follow us on X: @intheMatrixxx and @ShadyGrooove - Join our listener group on X: [X Group](https://mgshow.link/xgroup) - Support the show: - Fundraiser: [GiveSendGo](https://givesendgo.com/helpmgshow) - Donate: [Support Page](https://mg.show/support) - Merch: [Merch Store](https://merch.mg.show) - MyPillow Special: Use code MGSHOW at [MyPillow](https://mypillow.com/mgshow) for savings! - Crypto donations: Bitcoin: bc1qtl2mftxzv8cxnzenmpav6t72a95yudtkq9dsuf Ethereum: 0xA11f0d2A68193cC57FAF9787F6Db1d3c98cf0b4D ADA: addr1q9z3urhje7jp2g85m3d4avfegrxapdhp726qpcf7czekeuayrlwx4lrzcfxzvupnlqqjjfl0rw08z0fmgzdk7z4zzgnqujqzsf XLM: GAWJ55N3QFYPFA2IC6HBEQ3OTGJGDG6OMY6RHP4ZIDFJLQPEUS5RAMO7 LTC: ltc1qapwe55ljayyav8hgg2f9dx2y0dxy73u0tya0pu **All Links** Find everything on [Linktree](https://linktr.ee/mgshow)

Monocle 24: The Globalist
Italy's Meloni meets Trump in Washington

Monocle 24: The Globalist

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 58:57


Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is headed to the White House to meet with US president Donald Trump. Can she walk the diplomatic tightrope amid trade tensions? Then: we look at how Europe’s security priorities have shifted as the Swiss Army trains abroad for the first time in 30 years. Plus: Singapore’s general election, how tariffs are affecting air travel and why “slow TV” is on the rise in the Nordics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Met het Oog op Morgen
Met het Oog op Morgen 16-04-2025

Met het Oog op Morgen

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 51:11


Met vandaag: Akkoord over voorjaarsnota na marathonoverleg | De speciale band tussen het Italië van Meloni en de VS van Trump | Zit er nieuwe informatie in de beelden van de Nederlandse aanval op Hawija? | Theu Boermans en Ramsey Nasr over hun nieuwe film ‘Praten met de Nachtwacht'| Presentatie: Rob Trip

The John Batchelor Show
#ITALY: MELONI TO THE OVAL OFFICE. LORENZO FIORI.

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2025 8:54


#ITALY: MELONI TO THE OVAL OFFICE. LORENZO FIORI. 1943 POPE PIUS XII

Pat Gray Unleashed
Trump's Liberation Day: A New Era of American Trade Begins Today | 4/2/25

Pat Gray Unleashed

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 100:46


Happy "Liberation Day," as Trump's tariffs begin. The Trump administration makes an error in deporting a man to the EL Salvador supermax prison. Split in the Republican House of Representatives over the issue of proxy voting for new moms. Actor Val Kilmer passes away at 65. After last night's elections, the GOP lead in the House stands at 220-213. Gas prices just spiked … but why? College football program offering free concessions at home games this season! Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees announced. Senator Cory Booker ranted for 25 hours in the U.S. Senate. Karoline Leavitt and her very good hair day. CBS wild mass shooting claim and other mainstream media lies. Flat Earth disproved? Muslim compounds popping up nationwide … especially in Texas. 00:00 Pat Gray UNLEASHED 01:43 Trump Admin. Makes a Mistake 03:59 Karoline Leavitt Explains Illegal Deportation 10:07 Voting by Proxy 22:09 Rest In Peace Val Kilmer 31:19 Chewing the Fat 48:18 Cory Booker Slams Trump for 25 Hours 50:49 Cory Booker: Are you Better off Today? 53:30 Cory Booker: Where Were You in History? 56:22 Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell UPDATE 1:03:43 Bill Maher Meets with Trump at White House 1:05:08 White House Explains Tariffs That Starts Today 1:09:37 Houthi Attack Update from Karoline Leavitt 1:12:07 Another Made Up Statistic from the Left 1:16:14 Dragon Capsule Shows Earth's Poles 1:21:01 What Happened to Amy Coney Barrett? 1:25:07 Meloni is Mad with Macron? 1:27:16 A New Josephine, TX Muslim Community 1:32:29 Pakistan Day in Texas  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The John Batchelor Show
#ITALY: PM MELONI IS THE BRIDGE TO THE EU. LORENZO FIORI

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2025 8:57


#ITALY: PM MELONI IS THE BRIDGE TO THE EU. LORENZO FIORI 1920 THE VATICAN