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Ippolito, Luigi
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Weapons won't solve Libya conflict
The military chief of the Libyan rebels, Abdel Fattah Junes, was killed under as yet unexplained circumstances on Thursday. This shows once more that the West will not be able to topple the Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi militarily, writes the liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera: "Nine plus nine equals zero in the case of Libya. Nine billion from Nato to get rid of Gaddafi and nine billion from the ruler to hold his ground. ... With the result that the Libyan leader has good chances of remaining in his country. After four and a half months and the effective withdrawal of the US, which has exposed the Europeans' inadequacies, it's obvious that the political goal won't be reached simply by the use of weapons. The European governments have considered the compromise solution of leaving Gaddafi in the country but deprived of his power. Whatever one may think of this about-turn, if an even half-way honourable way out of this mess is to be found, now is the time. Nine plus nine equals zero threatens to become an equation that no one can accept."
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Katyn tragedy without impact
Fortunately for Europe, the Katyn effect presidential candidate Jarosław Kaczyński had been counting on has not materialised, the liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera writes: "The weakening of Jarosław Kaczyński is good news for Europe. Warsaw will stop rowing against the European Community as President Lech Kaczyński [who died near Katyn] did. Right up until the last moment he tried to throw a spanner in the works of the Lisbon treaty. And it's also good news for European-Russian relations. With their anti-Russian stance the Kaczyński brothers have driven a wedge between the EU and the Kremlin. Even the ceremony commemorating the Katyn massacre two months ago with its tragic end was basically an 'alternative' to the ceremony the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin attended only a few days earlier. ... A liberal victory in Warsaw will help to relax the atmosphere on the continent all the way to the Ural."
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