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Defensive Euro: The Currency That Finances EU Security

In a context of global stress, the dollar is strengthening as a safe-haven asset, while the euro remains high not through performance, but through constraint. For those who follow the exchange rate, the stakes are no longer strictly the leu-euro...

American hegemony, strangled by China-supported multipolarity: Probability, timeline, consequences

Western hegemony - primarily the U.S., but also the EU - is being challenged and besieged by China, backed by the BRICS bloc and part of the Global South, which promote multipolarity as an alternative. Pressure also comes from states hit by the...

ECA Report: EU loses global semiconductor race

The European Union appears to have overestimated its chances of becoming a major player in the global microchip industry, according to a report published yesterday by the European Court of Auditors (ECA), which claims that the community bloc will...

CIA Director William J. Burns: "To be an effective 21st century intelligence agency, the CIA must combine a mastery of emerging technologies with the interpersonal skills and individual daring that have always been at the heart of our profession. That means to equip operations officers with the necessary tools and equipment to conduct espionage in a world where technological surveillance is a constant, and to provide analysts with sophisticated AI-based models that can synthesize vast amounts of information." (Photo source: https://www.cia.gov/about/director-of-cia/)

The head of the CIA: "We are in competition with China for the use of new technologies in the activity of espionage"

The CIA is competing with China for the use of new technologies in espionage, especially since the Asian republic poses the greatest threat to the United States in the long term, says CIA chief William J. Burns...

Bidding for life - the inequality of access to the Covid vaccine

The great race for the anti-Covid vaccination is in full swing across the whole world. Millions of people are hoping that the vaccine will end the pandemic and we will be able to return to normal. At the same time, many people are of two minds,...

Night of the living banks

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of books such as "The Black Swan" and "Antifragile" that set the benchmark on discussing the fragility of the banking system, recently wrote on his Twitter account: "I wasn't worried about...