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This essay aims to analyze the power system conceived by Viktor Orbán – the current Hungarian Prime Minister and historical leader of the Fidesz party – and his propaganda. To do so, all main topics of Orbán’s rhetoric will be examined: national sovereignty, the threat posed by migratory flows, the “enemies of the Homeland” – as George Soros – the fight against liberalism. Moreover, the conflict between Hungarian Government and the European Institutions will be described, as well as the confrontation between Fidesz party and the EPP. Fidesz originated in the late 80s as a progressive movement. In the first half of the following decade, though, it became a conservative party, following Viktor Orbán’s political calculations. Nowadays, it has become the tool for Orbán to take the lead of the European conservative field, ready to replace, if necessary, the EPP.

From the second half of the 19th century, China began to be incorporated into a multi-state informal imperialist system, in the form of a network of territorial concessions: specifically port, railway and mining ones. Meanwhile, Chinese legal institutions underwent a profound transformation toward Western legal principles, thanks to both the internal pressure of reformist officials and the external pressure of foreign powers, whose goal was to make Chinese market malleable and widely accessible. The first half of this essay consists in a general introduction to the system of the mining concessions in China and to the Chinese mining code's reform. The second half - through a case study, the Zhejiang concession - aims to show how the reform of Chinese mining law has been exploited to make Chinese mines less accessible and to put them under the sovereign protection of the state.

A mineralization method HCl-free for heavy metals analysis in sediments and soils by DRC-ICP-MS was developed. The procedure, which uses concentrated nitric, hydrofluoric acid and hydrogen peroxide, was applied for the analysis of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, nickel and vanadium. The same samples were then analyzed, as pressed pellets, by wavelength dispersive X ray fluorescence (WD-XRF) using the dedicated PANalytical Pro Trace solution for the determination of trace elements. Comparison of ICP and XRF data showed good agreement for the elements under investigation, unless for chromium in soils, which recovery was not complete.