We open this number, the first of 2012, with the Antonello Montante interview, entrepreneur engaged with Confindustria and promoter of the “transparency effect” of the companies of Italian brand. In Forum, national experts exchange opinions on the subject of tax evasion which, from a secondary offense, has now become a real National emergency, also because of a possible strange interweaving with recycling.
The articles are devoted to: the Central Guarantee Fund , which supports the small and medium-size businesses in the grip of a now globalized economic crisis; Bioterrorism and the potential use of harmful biological agents; the discipline of the ‘discriminating’ of the legitimate use of arms; ‘crowd sourcing’ for the Intelligence, and a reflection on the youth problems – poised between flexibility and job insecurity.
The Columns Section includes: for the space devoted to ‘A chat with ….’, a meeting with the Under-secretary of the Interior, Carlo De Stefano; for the ‘Mediterranean Observatory’, the Syrian uncertainty; for the ‘Archives’, the anti-evasion suggestions of a willing contributor and for the ‘Anecdotes’, the Venlo incident.
In the space devoted to ‘Studies of Intelligence’, we present a close examination on the Word Economic Forum Report on the risks of 2012. In closing, reviews of the books: “La memoria del testimone” “Soldi Sporchi” and “11 settembre 2021” , and lastly, the account of the reflections of two Mafiosi, father and son, transplanted to Milan.

Francesco La Motta