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Giorgia Meloni’s government is still supporting Ukraine and backing NATO. Italy’s aerospace and defence sectors help explain why.

Both Meloni’s government and the opposition have put forward complicated if not unrealistic proposals for the war in Ukraine, such as a UN peacekeeping mission after a ceasefire, and repeatedly reaffirmed their commitment to NATO.

mediafaro.org/article/20250324

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni leaves EU headquarters at the end of the special European Council meeting on continued support for Ukraine and European defence, in Brussels on 6 March 2025. | NicolasTucat/AFP
The Conversation Europe · Giorgia Meloni’s government is still supporting Ukraine and backing NATO. Italy’s aerospace and defence sectors help explain why.By Jean-Pierre Darnis
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> Jingye, the Chinese steel group that owns the plant, blamed #DonaldTrump as it announced plans to shut key operations, putting up to 2,700 jobs at risk. It said the “imposition of #tariffs” had made the blast furnaces and steel making operations “no longer financially sustainable”. The closures signal the end of steel production in the #UK after more than 150 years. archive.is/2025.03.28-222848/h
#economy #brexit #steel #G7 #industry #China #MAGA

British Steel: Scunthorpe furnaces to close ending 150 years of UK production

> British Steel blames #DonaldTrump as it announces plans to shut Scunthorpe blast furnaces

> The closure will signal the end of virgin steel production in Britain, following the end of primary steel making in Port Talbot last year. Britain has been producing the alloy since the 1850s, with the metal playing a key role in the industrial revolution.

archive.is/bk1uX
#UK #economy #brexit #steel #G7 #industry

Book industry fears Canada's proposed counter-tariffs against U.S.-printed books will do more harm than good
Publishers, booksellers, authors and libraries — basically anyone involved in Canada’s book world — are worried countertariffs, proposed by the Canadian government on U.S.-published works, will do irreversible damage to the industry as we know it.
#book #industry #trade #politics #Canada #US
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col