Andrea Dagnino

🇮🇹in🇪🇸 = 🇪🇺 / Referente Spagna e Sud Europa @ORA_italia / Associato @LiberiOltre + @Ass_Coscioni

[Andrea Dagnino @AndyDagnus]

“Democracies die not only when people are not free to talk but also when people are not willing or able to listen.” (Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus)

#demagonia

[Andrea Dagnino @AndyDagnus]

@matteorenzi @ItaliaViva Piers Morgan non è una delle voci della destra americana Matteo. Bah

[alberto bisin @albertobisin]

E due (con Venezia, ma ce ne saranno altre che non ho notato) ... il centro sono io ... è apparentemente il motto di @CarloCalenda.

Ora, io ho votato Calenda - con @matteorenzi - temendo il narcisismo e egocentrismo di entrambi ... è andata peggio di quanto mi aspettassi ma ancora peggio sta succedendo oggi.

Il centro è luogo duro dove stare - lo capisco - ma ci sono dei limiti. Peccato - Renzi e Calenda hanno avuto delle opportunità e le hanno sprecate - quasi 10 anni gettati per il paese. Non solo colpa loro, ci mancherebbe, ma hanno contribuito a fare del centro un luogo ancora meno ospitale di quello che era.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime

https://t.co/yfMCWUFk34

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

France moved 129 tonnes of gold from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to Paris between July 2025 and January 2026. Every ounce of French sovereign gold is now stored on French soil. The Banque de France sold non-standard legacy bars held in New York at record prices and simultaneously purchased equivalent compliant bars in Europe, booking a capital gain of 12.8 billion euros without changing its total reserves of 2,437 tonnes by a single gram. The transaction was described as operational, not political. But the outcome is political regardless of the motive: a founding NATO ally has removed 100 percent of its gold from American custody.

Germany did this between 2013 and 2017. Now France. The pattern is consistent: Western central banks are bringing their gold home from New York, quietly, without fanfare, while publicly maintaining that the moves are routine. Nobody repatriates 129 tonnes of sovereign metal across an ocean because the storage fees were inconvenient. They do it because the world that made New York the safest vault on earth is the same world that froze $300 billion in Russian reserves in 2022, and every central bank on the planet watched.

China has purchased gold for 16 consecutive months. February 2026 was the latest: one tonne, modest, disciplined, bringing total reserves to 2,308 tonnes valued at $387.6 billion, approximately 10 percent of total foreign exchange reserves. China has simultaneously reduced its US Treasury holdings by $638 billion. The buying is not speculative. It is architectural. Every tonne purchased and every Treasury sold moves the centre of gravity of China’s reserve portfolio from an asset that can be frozen to an asset that cannot.

India repatriated 274 tonnes to domestic vaults, bringing 66 percent of its gold home. It reduced US Treasury holdings by 18 percent in 2025. Poland added 20 tonnes in February alone and is targeting 700 tonnes total. Uzbekistan added 8 tonnes. The structural bid from central banks that watched the 2022 freeze is running at 863 tonnes per year with no sign of slowing.

Then there are the sellers. Russia sold 6 tonnes in February and approximately 15 tonnes in the first two months of 2026, the largest drawdown since 2002. The country that triggered the global repatriation movement by getting its reserves frozen is now selling gold to fund the war deficit that the freeze was supposed to prevent. Turkey sold 8 tonnes in February and utilised approximately 50 tonnes in March for lira defence and liquidity operations. The irony is precise: the war that proves gold’s value as a sanctions-proof reserve is simultaneously forcing the countries most exposed to sanctions to liquidate their gold to survive the war’s economic consequences.

The net global position remains positive. Central banks added 19 tonnes in February despite Russia and Turkey selling. The buyers outweigh the sellers. But the composition tells the story. The buyers are countries building sovereignty: China, India, Poland, Uzbekistan. The sellers are countries defending survival: Russia funding a war, Turkey defending a currency. And the repatriators are countries hedging trust: France and Germany bringing metal home from the vault of the ally whose financial weapons they watched deployed in 2022.

Gold is at $4,676 tonight and down 8 percent from its January high. The correction is the trade. The repatriation is the structure. And the structure says that the world’s central banks, collectively, have decided that the safest place for sovereign gold is no longer New York. It is home.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

JD Vance is heading to Hungary to endorse Viktor Orban. Here is a description of the corrupt regime, and the bizarre, post-reality campaign, that the US administration now supports:
https://t.co/2Hx9Ow1dfV

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

from @CatherineBelton, on why Vance is going to Budapest
https://t.co/lrBs6hepVU

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

For weeks, we’ve been receiving warnings from multiple sources that, after previous failed false-flag operations and a drop in Fidesz’s support, Viktor Orbán - allegedly with Serbian and Russian assistance - may be planning to cross another line.
Many people have suggested that something might “accidentally” happen in Serbia, possibly involving a gas pipeline, around Easter, one week before the Hungarian elections.
And now it has.

I call on the Prime Minister to immediately inform the public about these developments and to invite me to the meeting of the Defense Council, as whoever organized this provocation, the resulting situation will have to be resolved by a TISZA government.
I further call on Viktor Orbán to stop - at least during the holiday - spreading panic and causing disruption, as planned by his Russian advisors.

I also want to make it clear that he will not be able to prevent next Sunday’s election. He will not be able to stop millions of Hungarians from bringing to an end the most corrupt two decades in our country’s history.
The Hungarian people’s trust in the country’s security services has been legitimately shaken by the series of intelligence-related scandals uncovered in recent weeks. Hungarians have every reason to fear that the outgoing Prime Minister, following the advice of Russian agents, is attempting to instill fear in his own people through false-flag operations.

If @PM_ViktorOrban and his propaganda machine use this provocation for campaign purposes, it will amount to an open admission that it was a pre-planned false-flag operation.
A TISZA government will conduct a comprehensive and transparent investigation to uncover who was politically responsible for, and who carried out, these crimes against our country.

Under the TISZA government, there will once again be order, peace, security and prosperity in Hungary. The Orbán "be afraid!" culture will be replaced by a culture of
"do not be afraid!" The TISZA government will be able to ensure Hungary's security within the European Union and NATO alliance system - the very alliance system that the Fidesz and Mi Hazánk parties are planning to leave.

I wish everyone a peaceful Easter holiday!
Truth and love ultimately always win.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Two weeks ago, the Hungarian opposition was bracing for a false flag operation, an "emergency" that would allow Viktor Orban to turn the tide or even cancel an election he is losing. Now it appears to have arrived

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Hungarians chanted "Russians Go Home" in 1956 too

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

"This isn’t cowardice. It’s a calculation: If allied leaders thought that their sacrifice might count for something in Washington, they might choose differently."
But most of them know that Trump will not even remember that it happened.

https://t.co/sPR7wLEMmF

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Trump has insulted and tariffed his European allies, persuaded Denmark to prepare for a US invasion and, by pressuring Ukraine and not Russia, encouraged Putin to keep fighting. All of which he has forgotten.
https://t.co/GhDO27FyxK

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

"La Russia non sta vincendo, in Ucraina, ha anche perso terreno" https://t.co/g55oupDLzG

[Federal Reserve @federalreserve]

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: https://t.co/5dfrkByGyX

[Liberi, Oltre le Illusioni 🇺🇦🇪🇺 @liberioltre]

Libertà per l'Iran! 📢
Liberi Oltre le Illusioni ha partecipato ieri, sabato 10 gennaio, alla manifestazione "ENOUGH" che si è tenuta a Milano, in sostegno alla libertà del popolo iraniano.

A portare in piazza la voce e il supporto della nostra associazione all'Iran e a tutte le popolazioni oppresse è stato il presidente @DeShindig.

#liberioltreleillusioni #liberioltre #iran

[Andrea Savi @AndreaSavi3]

Ancora una volta, noi di @ora_italia siamo stati i primi a criticare l’uso strumentale e politico del Golden Power. Il ddl di conversione del dl 175/2025 ne riforma l’uso e chiarisce le competenze UE. Segue un thread sul comparto bancario italiano 🧵

https://t.co/HJEnSpQ7j2

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Christmas Eve bombings, orchestrated by Putin. He is mocking everyone who believes he is the leader of a Christian country

[Andrea Dagnino @AndyDagnus]

Another deal done!

#corporatefinance #financialadvisory

https://t.co/9OYKHCm6sf

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
https://t.co/bLuBqKRrAd

[Andrea Dagnino @AndyDagnus]

@anneapplebaum It would be interesting to have @CarloCalenda on @PiersUncensored debunking some other shameful pro-Putin propagandists.

What do you think @piersmorgan ? For once that we have a true pro-european liberal from Italy!

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

About time