‘ …le aziende
taiwanesi detengono circa il 65% dello share globale (dei microchip) e oltre il 90% per quanto riguarda le tecnologie più avanzate.’
https://www.wired.it/article/chip-taiwan-tsmc-produzione-stati-uniti-germania/
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‘ …le aziende
taiwanesi detengono circa il 65% dello share globale (dei microchip) e oltre il 90% per quanto riguarda le tecnologie più avanzate.’
https://www.wired.it/article/chip-taiwan-tsmc-produzione-stati-uniti-germania/
https://rm.coe.int/as-pol-2024-27-draft-report-the-need-for-a-renewed-rules-based-interna/1680b2c73e
https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22378.doc.htm
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/eu-peace-security-and-defence_en
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/05/09/the-liberal-international-order-is-slowly-coming-apart
https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/challenges-to-a-rules-based-international-order/
https://www.gcsp.ch/publications/reforming-global-security-architecture
https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/2025/01/07/davos-wef-mckinsey-barometer/
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/global-cooperation-flatlined-how-reinvent-it/
https://www.ispionline.it/en/publication/to-watch-in-2025-european-defense-and-security-194905
Growing
competition for rare earths
https://www.ispionline.it/en/publication/scramble-africas-rare-earths-china-not-alone-30725
https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/why-world-turning-to-greenlands-rare-earth-metals/32694/
its
lack of an adequate command and control system, compared to NATO.
It
lacks an adequate, autonomous satellite system, intelligence system and
logistics.
'The European Union (EU) does not have
a permanent military command structure along the lines of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization's (NATO) Allied Command Operations (ACO).'
https://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/analyses/europe-at-war-and-european-defence-the-same-as-ever/
https://ip-quarterly.com/en/lost-space-europes-role-spatial-defense
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2024/762855/EPRS_STU(2024)762855_EN.pdf
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/strategic-compass-security-and-defence-1_en
https://www.bruegel.org/first-glance/case-european-defence-compact
‘L’Italia vanta infatti all’attivo più di 40 missioni nel
2024, posizionandosi come gli Usa – quindi primo tra gli
europei – e primo tra i contributori occidentali alle missioni delle Nazioni
Unite.’
Military personnel: ‘NATO (5.170), ONU (2.764) e UE (742).’
‘primo contributore per le operazioni dell’Ue, secondo
contributore della Nato dopo.’
See
also:
https://www.analisidifesa.it/2024/04/le-missioni-militari-italiane-allestero-nel-2024/
https://www.difesa.it/operazionimilitari/index/26771.html
https://www.geopop.it/quante-e-quali-sono-le-missioni-e-le-basi-militari-italiane-allestero/
‘Operazioni Militari - L'Italia è impegnata in 39 missioni e operazioni internazionali, di cui 3
nazionali. Il
contingente massimo autorizzato per le missioni internazionali è di circa
13.800 unità, mentre l'impiego medio all'estero è di circa 6.800 unità.’
Defence spending
The Roma people in the EU
I rom nell'UE
Background
https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/the-roma-europe-forgotten-people
https://www.auschwitzinstitute.org/news/2024-international-roma-genocide-remembrance-day
https://www.errc.org/news/2024-errc-news-review-police-violence-against-roma
https://eeb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/roma-report-WEB-1.pdf
https://www.unicef.org/innocenti/media/8211/file/UNICEF-Innocenti-Roma-Children-Report-2024.pdf
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2021/690629/EPRS_BRI(2021)690629_EN.pdf
https://fra.europa.eu/en/project/2024/roma-survey-2024
https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-2022-roma-survey-2021-main-results2_en.pdf
Where we are in Europe on this question, September 2024
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52024DC0422
Cybersecurity
https://youngdip.blogspot.com/2024/10/artificial-intelligence-and.html
Italy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenzia_per_la_Cybersicurezza_Nazionale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Operations_Command_(Italy)
https://www.sicurezzanazionale.gov.it/
https://www.sicurezzanazionale.gov.it/chi-siamo
https://www.sicurezzanazionale.gov.it/chi-siamo/organizzazione/dis
https://www.sicurezzanazionale.gov.it/chi-siamo/organizzazione/aise
https://www.sicurezzanazionale.gov.it/chi-siamo/organizzazione/aisi
https://www.acn.gov.it/portale/home
https://www.acn.gov.it/portale/strategia-nazionale-di-cybersicurezza
https://www.cybersecurity360.it/outlook/sviluppo-capacita-cyber-italia-a-che-punto-siamo/
https://www.acn.gov.it/portale/pnrr
https://www.esteri.it/it/politica-estera-e-cooperazione-allo-sviluppo/temi_globali/cybersicurezza/
https://www.esteri.it/en/politica-estera-e-cooperazione-allo-sviluppo/temi_globali/cybersecurity
/https://www.esteri.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Italian-Position-Paper-on-International-Law-and-Cyberspace.pdf
https://www.cybersecurity360.it/news/italia-cybersecurity-220-milioni-2024/
https://www.lokky.it/blog/news/cybersecurity-pnrr-legge-di-bilancio-2023
The EU
https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/2024-report-on-the-state-of-the-cybersecurity-in-the-union
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cybersecurity-policies
https://www.enisa.europa.eu/events/cybersecurity_standardisation_2025
https://www.enisa.europa.eu/news/eus-first-ever-report-on-the-state-of-cybersecurity-in-the-union
https://www.enisa.europa.eu/topics/cyber-threats/threat-landscape
background: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/IT/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52020JC0018&from=EN
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52020JC0018&from=EN
NATO
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_78170.htm
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_219728.htm
background https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_133177.htm
current https://www.act.nato.int/activities/cyber/
Cyber Attacks
https://konbriefing.com/en-topics/cyber-attacks.html
https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/enisa-threat-landscape-2024
https://www.itgovernance.eu/blog/en/data-breaches-and-cyber-attacks-in-2024-in-europe
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/cyber-threats-eu/
file:///C:/Users/Pc/Downloads/ENISA%20Threat%20Landscape%202023.pdf
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-union-china-ukraine-disinformation-cyberattacks-war-russia/
https://www.reuters.com/technology/italys-industry-ministry-reports-heavy-cyberattack-2023-05-26/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_by_Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_by_China
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/china-disrupt-us-infrastructure/
Cyber/Digital
Diplomacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_diplomacy
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/digital-diplomacy_en
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/our-stakes-digital-diplomacy_en
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/power-potential-digital-diplomacy-global-diplomatic-forum
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/digital-diplomacy-vital-competency-diplomats-21st
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cyber-diplomacy
https://www.affarinternazionali.it/diplomazia-genere-e-diversita-nel-cyberspazio/
http://rjea.ier.gov.ro/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Art.-5_Digital-diplomacy_Frey_2024_final.pdf
https://www.diplomacy.edu/topics/digital-diplomacy/
an Italian
initiative– watch the videos
Digital Diplomacy at the Italian Embassy in Washington DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-yG-to-RpA&t=10s
http://www.twiplomacy.it/highlight.html
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DffaLQLu7Bk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws6w6-N4zXY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DffaLQLu7Bk
The Bretton Woods institutions
https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2014/09/the-decline-of-the-bretton-woods-institutions?lang=en
Global order and governance
https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22109.doc.htm
https://press.un.org/en/2024/ga12630.doc.htm
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/un-new-league-nations-organization-facing-decline-its-agostini-u5hpe
https://www.sei.org/perspectives/transitioning-to-a-new-global-order/
The EU and Greenland
The
EU and Canada
https://www.eeas.europa.eu/canada/european-union-and-canada_en?s=220
Response
to Trump
https://globalnews.ca/news/10947034/donald-trump-greenland-not-for-sale/
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/europe-reacts-to-trumps-threat-to-greenland/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/europe-pushes-back-trump-greenland-military-threat-rcna186744
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/07/congress/very-serious-tariffs-00196878
https://apnews.com/article/trump-gulf-of-mexico-bc438f4feca1234475a1adef99344da7
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/08/politics/donald-trump-mexican-cartels/index.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/16/politics/donald-trump-immigration-plans/index.html