Brexiteers looking for Brexiteers looking for good-looking Brexit benefits
by Gabriele Bonafede ‘Government to hire adviser to identify post-Brexit benefits’, you can read in Bloomberg news. “Boris Johnson’s administration is recruiting an external...
Gabriele Bonafede
Master in Public Policy and Planning alla facoltà d’economia della Northeastern University di Boston, USA (1993), è dottore di ricerca in Pianificazione Territoriale (1994). Nel 1996 si è specializzato in Regional Studies in Developing Countries al MIT di Cambridge (USA). Dal 1992 lavora quale economista nell’ambito della cooperazione internazionale, principalmente per progetti e programmi di sviluppo finanziati da UE, GIZ, ADB, EBRD, EEA e altri donors internazionali. Ha pubblicato cinque saggi su temi d’economia e sviluppo e articoli accademici in italiano, inglese e portoghese.
Prima di creare e dirigere Maredolce.com (novembre 2015), ha pubblicato su vari quotidiani, tra i quali Il Mediterraneo, Il Giornale di Sicilia, LinkSicilia, Sì24, L’Ora. Oltre Maredolce, pubblica sul Gazzettino di Sicilia e, in inglese, su riviste e giornali online. Autore del romanzo sul Novecento "Appunti di una giovane anima. Alexandra Tomasi di Lampedusa" (2018) e di "Il Frate e la Rosa" (2020).
Lord Frost and the Game of the Brexit Goose
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by Gabriele Bonafede Lord Frost is now warning EU that the UK could soon take drastic action over the Northern Ireland Protocol, which, in...
A “Sense for Palermo”. The Teatro Massimo and Omer Meir Wellber
by Gabriele Bonafede Every Palermitan is proud of it. Every tourist is proud of a photo or a selfie in Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, in...
Pope Francis: dialogue and forgiveness to end conflict in Holy Land
by Gabriele Bonafede A horrible seventh day of renewed Israeli-Palestinian conflict fell on the catholic occurrence of Ascension. That is, for believers, the ascent...
Bank of England fails to spot Brexit storm in May 2021 Report
by Gabriele Bonafede In a nearly 50-pages Monetary Policy Report for May 2021 (here), the Bank of England (BoE) mentions the word “Brexit” just...
Brexiteers now acknowledging that Brexit is unsustainable
by Gabriele Bonafede Even Lord Frost, UK Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, is now acknowledging that Brexit is unsustainable. “It’s clear from...
Priti expensive. Indeed
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by Gabriele Bonafede “This is Priti Patel’s Home Office procurement card spending. This is incredible.” The story was first published a few weeks ago...
A dinosaur doubting dinosaurs is running to lead a party of dinosaurs
by Gabriele Bonafede A sectarian and untransparent party entered a forecastable crisis triggered by Brexit. It is the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) of Northern...
The huge difference between participative and imposed Unions
by Gabriele Bonafede As correctly commented by The Economist, the elections in Scotland are leading to a long institutional crisis within UK: “long Anglo-Scottish...
Landslide victory for SNP and Green in Scotland. Likely referendum in 2022
by Gabriele Bonafede By Friday night the SNP looked able to obtain a clear victory. Sturgeon’s party had already won Ayr – one of...
Johnson playing Mussolini. The building of a new empire of lies
by Gabriele Bonafede The UK fought against German Nazism and Italian fascism. Helped us Italians to get rid of fascism. It was a beacon...
The UK, a beacon for freedom and civilization falling in ruins
by Gabriele Bonafede The United Kingdom, the country of Churchill, is no longer Churchill’s nation. Now it is a country that betrayed the very...
Scottish Conservatives, defeat looming ahead in May election
by Gabriele Bonafede The current UK government does not seem to have learned anything from past experience. It wanted and implemented Brexit, triggering an...
Post-Brexit trade agreements. The UK holds no cards
by Gabriele Bonafede A few main points can summarize the current situation regarding post-Brexit trade agreements for UK. Firstly, with Brexit, the UK has...
Covid in India, un milione di casi in quattro giorni. Ospedali al collasso
di Gabriele Bonafede Quasi 315.000 nuovi casi in 24 ore, l’India segna purtroppo un nuovo, triste, record mondiale nella pandemia di Covid-19. L’ondata di...
Budapest e il memorandum dimenticato 
“Avventure postume di personaggi illustri”: quell’ossimoro di fondo 
Il Palermo festeggia il 125° compleanno con una manita al Pescara 
Sulla riforma Nordio e il referendum confermativo 