The Globalist

The vicious circle of vested interests and low economic growth.

What lessons can be drawn from a big crisis 20 years ago to help overcome the current malaise in Europe?

Is Italy in for a renewed period of political turbulence — and delayed economic reforms?

Wouldn’t Slovenia be better off making critical business sector reforms on its own to improve its economic potential?

Is Jorge Bergoglio up to the task of reforming the Catholic Church without breaking it apart? Governance reforms are centuries overdue.

Italy has no choice but to build on Mario Monti’s achievements.

Will elections in February help change the country’s economic fortunes? Or will it take something far more radical?

Is Italy in danger of finding itself outside the umbrella of nations Germany and its partners are willing to support?

Will Francois Hollande choose to make France like Germany or to make France like Italy?

How did Silvio Berlusconi’s tenure as Italian prime minister resemble some of the more ruthless and business-savvy popes in history?