The current political-institutional conditions – or, better, the persistent “embarras de la souveraineté”, in the words of Jacques Delors, then President of the European Commission (1985 – 1994) – do not seem to allow Europe to develop and implement the tools and measures needed to tackle decisively the most serious post-war economic crisis. And this Europe in the ford of the great crisis will be the focus of the annual conference of the Italcementi Foundation to be held tomorrow morning (January 19) at the Bergamo Fair: the objective is to analyze the crisis of the euro and of the European economies, and how this impasse can become an element of acceleration and of proposing solutions that would otherwise be difficult to share, avoiding the risk of a community "big bang" and the inexorable slide of the concept of Europe towards a mere synonym of austerity, sacrifice and rescue measures.
The discussion, which will make use of the analyzes and data illustrated by the Istat president, Enrico Giovannini, and by the president Ipsos, Nando Pagnoncelli, will see the participation of some of the major protagonists and observers of the academic, economic and institutional world, from the Minister of European Affairs, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, to the economists Luigi Zingales (included in the Top 100 Global Thinkers 2012 by the American magazine Foreign Policy), Hans-Werner Sinn (among the authors of the open letter to Chancellor Merkel on direct aid from the bailout fund) and Ramon Marimon (professor at the European University Institute financed by 20 Member States and former Secretary of State of the Spanish Government), at the entrepreneur Andrew Moltrasio (formerly vice president of Confindustria for Europe). He moderates the director of "La Stampa" Mario Calabresi.
