April 29, 2022

We are back with a brand new season of freshly-minted interviews with Italian business leaders and newsmakers and... we are especially thrilled to welcome Alexis Christoforous on board as our new host for this season. Here is Alexis in action in the hallowed halls of the oldest University in the world, where some very 21st century business learning is taking place!

This week, as the war in Ukraine drags on, we highlight an opinion piece from Politico, which probes the complications and contradictions of detaching from a once-close ally and trading partner.

And continuing on our theme of the "Draghi Effect", here is a surprisingly optimistic analysis of the Technocrat PM's handling of the dissolution of the notoriously cash-hemmoraghing Alitalia, the ashes from which ITA has risen - which MAYBE, just possibly could be on the verge of turning a profit.

The pandemic era had a silver-lining for many Venetians: for 2 years the venerable lagoon-city was almost free of the hordes of tourists that pack into the vaporetti and create human traffic jams in its narrow alleyways and foot bridges. No longer. Easter 2022 has seen record numbers of visitors return, and in response, Venice is following through on its long-threatened plan to borrow a page from Disney's theme parks: an entrance fee.

And lastly, as this is Alexis's first week, we end on another interview she did from Italy's Motor Valley outside Modena. Energica is an exciting young company that is emblematic of a new generation of Italian entrepreneurs who are embracing new digital eco-friendly technologies, and also learning how to break-free of the traditional family owned business paradigm, and open up to outside equity investors like the US E-tech company Ideanomics.

See you next week!

Fernando Napolitano,
Founder and CEO

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