(Article published in The Economist, insert of Il Reformista)
There is little to celebrate. We do not live on memories even if there are decades of peace at the assets of European institutions. The world has changed and changes quickly and this quarter of a century that we are experiencing is very different from what we had foreseen after the collapse of the Berlin wall, the long -awaited magnificent fate of humanity have been surrogated by a globalization process which, not adequately governed by supranational institutions and by a declining policy, has produced new imbalances and new losers. The failure to govern immigration and the cult of austerity have given the wind to the sails of populism which, here with us, triggered to increase Eurosceptic and anti -European movements and parties.
And now Trump has arrived, but before there were already the Putin and the many too many aids who think of subjugating democracy and subverting the liberal order. This is the great challenge of today, relaunch liberal democracy by subtracting it from too many conservatism, the power of veto, the very slow times that alienate the trust of citizens. Democracy Versus Autocracy, open company Versus Closed Company, Ponti Versus Barriere, Diplomacy Versus Forza Bruta. This is the great challenge of today. Europe doesn’t have much time. Within himself, populism and fears push the radical and anti -European rights, not those of Merkel or De Gasperi.
And outside, characters who bring the United Kingdom to the barter of Brexit, that Nigel Farage that rises to the real alternative of conservatives and Labors, are excited by Trumpism. It is necessary to hurry: to equip yourself with a common security and defense policy, and a common foreign policy, open to Eurobonds to finance sustainable growth and increase and rise the internal demand against the danger of recession of internship and give itself a unitary government policy of migratory flows and asylum seekers based on the principle of reception and fair distribution on all the countries that will share it. Will it be possible to make these things do to 27?
I don’t think. Therefore the “willing” and have the courage to proceed as on the euro as on Schengen, the others will come if they arrive if they arrive.
