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  • Rome
    • 1 March 2011
     
     

    Information services in the security sector: protecting Italy’s national interest

      Discussions at this National Roundtable commenced with an acknowledgement by the participants that the global economic arena is no longer characterized by competition played out solely between businesses, but rather sees national economies pitched against each other ever more fiercely.

      This trend has led to a gradual widening of the concept of “national security”, with many States now including economic and financial security within the ambit of this term.

    • Rome
      • 27 April 2011
       
       

      Information services in the security sector: protecting Italy’s financial and industrial system

        The participants at this National Roundtable opened the discussion by observing that following the reform of the Italian intelligence services, the activities of the relevant agencies are no longer confined to the protection of the political and military interests of the country, but also extend to defending its “economic, scientific and industrial” interests.

      • Rome
        • 12 October 2011
         
         

        Culture, politics, the economy: Italy’s national interest, from the country’s unification to the present day

          In the beginning, there was the catch-cry of “liberty and independence”: the Risorgimento ideal par excellence, expressing the longing of generations of those aspiring for an Italian nation, who – from the Congress of Vienna to 1861, as well as in the bellicose sequels of the following decade – devoted their thoughts and deeds and blood and hopes to the unification of Italy.