The Gist - Freedom in Focus
ENG The Gist podcast delivers daily intelligence briefings through AI hosts John and Mary. Essential global news analyzed from a distinctly European liberal perspective—cutting through noise to focus on what matters for individual freedom and democratic progress. ITA Il podcast The Gist offre briefing quotidiani con gli host AI John e Mary. Notizie globali essenziali analizzate da una prospettiva liberale europea—eliminando il rumore per concentrarsi su ciò che conta per la libertà individuale e il progresso democratico.
Episodes
La Verkhovna Rada voterà oggi il più ampio rimpasto di guerra: via quattro ministri economici, dentro tecnocrati vicini alla Banca Mondiale. Crollo di alleanze a Gerusalemme
Un altro tassello salta nella maggioranza di Benjamin Netanyahu: il partito unitari nazional-religioso ha abbandonato la coalizione, che passa d...
Ukraine will vote today on merging its finance, economy and infrastructure portfolios into a “war cabinet” and elevating central-bank chief Andriy Pyshnyy to deputy PM, the broadest shake-up since the Feb 2022 invasion. Tel-Aviv Draft Rift
Israel’s coalition shrank to 63/120 Knesset seats after the National Unity faction...
Israel’s coalition dropped from 64 to 59 seats after a second ultra-Orthodox party bolted over mandatory conscription (Bloomberg). Paris–Berlin reboot chips drive
Germany’s Lars Klingbeil and France’s Éric Lombard agreed to table a joint “Competitiveness Compact” in October that earmarks €8 bn for next-gen semicond...
Secondo Goldman Sachs, l’indice MSCI Asia ex-Japan Tech ha guadagnato +27 % da gennaio; Timothy Moe parla di “slancio strutturale sull’AI” grazie a investimenti dei colossi cloud cinesi e ai sussidi di Seoul sui semiconduttori. Armi e deterrenza
Trump ha confermato che «i primi lanciatori Patriot sono già partiti...
Goldman Sachs flags a “multi-year super-cycle” as Asian equities tied to artificial-intelligence added $480 bn in market cap in 2024, up 32 % year-to-date (Bloomberg/Refinitiv). US “Crypto Week” Sputters – Brussels Quietly Wins
Thirteen GOP rebels sank a House procedural vote, freezing three overhaul bills Trump touted as making t...
Former President Trump is signalling he would again press the Federal Reserve to cut rates and weaken the dollar; historians remind that every White House attempt since LBJ’s brow-beating of Chair William Martin backfired by stoking inflation and market distrust (WSJ, FT). Trump’s “Euro-paid” Patriots
Washington flipped ag...
François Bayrou will unveil on Tuesday a plan to carve €40 billion out of France’s 2026 budget—equal to roughly 1. EU Tries Tariff-Proof Supply Chains
Brussels is sketching a “Tariff-Safe Corridor” with Mexico, Australia and Türkiye to reroute key inputs—steel, lithium, semis—to bypass possible U.
Brussels has hit the snooze button on retaliation against Washington, extending its suspension of counter-tariffs to 1 Aug (Politico, Bloomberg). Symbol Policing in the Reichstag
Bundestag president Julia Klöckner ordered MPs to strip rainbow flags from office windows, citing “political neutrality” rules (DW).
President Trump lobbed a fresh trade grenade, slapping a 30 % blanket tariff on EU and Mexican goods from 1 Aug (Bloomberg, FT). Tariff Theatrics Go Live
Washington’s overnight order slaps a blanket 30 % levy on €480 bn worth of EU exports from 1 Aug (DW/Reuters).
Washington pushed its tariff deadline on Canadian steel to 1 Aug, giving Ottawa a breather and shelving its own C$15 bn retaliation list (Politico, Reuters). Rome chips at Golden Power
The Lazio TAR voided two pillars of the Meloni cabinet’s April 2024 “golden-power” decree on UniCredit’s €9.
A Brussels delegation touting a new €1 bn North Africa migration plan was ambushed in Benghazi when strongman Khalifa Haftar barred cameras and recast the visit as an endorsement of his rule (Politico, AFP). Polish Fighters Up, NATO Radar Hot
Overnight, Moscow fired 28 cruise missiles + 41 Shahed-136 drones at ...
BP warned investors that Q2 profit will be “materially lower” after Brent crude averaged $79/bbl, down 7 % vs Q1, chopping into trading margins even as output rose 3 % (FT, Reuters). Brussels Mulls ‘Vice’ Levies
The Commission, scrambling for fresh “own resources” post-2027, is weighing an extra excise of €0.
The S&P 500 closed up 0. Paris-London tighten the screws on Moscow
Macron and Starmer, chairing the “cease-fire coalition,” agreed to draft a “Phase-4” sanctions list targeting Russian LNG swap trading and $120 bn worth of VTB and Rosneft euro-bond holdings (Elysée, UK FCDO).
Brussels finally unveiled its voluntary “AI Code of Practice”, demanding risk audits, traceable data sets and realtime incident reporting within 72 h; non-compliance could trigger fines already embedded in the forthcoming AI Act (FT, Reuters). Italian Industry Grabs Reconstruction Steering-Wheel in Kyiv
Confindustria secured...
Brazil’s President Lula dismissed Washington’s latest tariff gambit—an across-the-board 25 % levy on $50 bn of Brazilian exports (WSJ, FT)—intended by President Trump to pressure Brasília over the Bolsonaro corruption probe. French Treasury Burn-out: A Data Point for EU Workforce Policy
Thirteen suicides and eight attempts sin...
Merck is paying $10 billion in cash for UK-listed Verona Pharma to secure a late-stage COPD drug as Keytruda patents start to expire in 2028 (Bloomberg). Italy’s Paycheck Drought Deepens
OECD’s Employment Outlook flags Italian real wages at -7.
Il Bundesrechnungshof accusa Berlino di «massive Überbeschaffung»: durante il picco Covid furono acquistati 6,4 miliardi di mascherine per circa 5,9 miliardi di euro; l’83 % giace ancora nei magazzini mentre lo smaltimento costerà altri 400 milioni.
A CBI-Oliver Wyman taskforce says Britain must give industry a 10-year, £15-20 bn spending map to unlock private co-investment in munitions, drones and cyber (FT, Bloomberg). Berlin’s Pandemic Bill Comes Due
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Il tweet notturno di Elon Musk – “serve un nuovo partito per rompere il one-party system” – è costato caro: il titolo Tesla ha perso -8,6 % a Wall Street (FT, Bloomberg). Energia europea in equilibrio
Ad Amsterdam il TTF ha chiuso a 33,62 €/MWh (+0,4%), livello ancora inferiore del 65% rispetto al picco del 2022.
Germany’s justice ministry has 48 hrs to draft a law letting unmarried biological fathers demand legal parenthood after Karlsruhe ruled the current veto-by-mother rule “unconstitutional” (BVerfG, 7 July).
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