It's time to change our attitude in the face of populism because one-way openings have not paid off: this is what former DC Marco Follini suggests. Not without reason
GDP down in 2023, auto industry in severe pain, Bayer in crisis and struggling with cuts. An aspirin won't be enough to cure the country. And an economy that is struggling to grow fuels social conflicts: a threat at the heart of the EU
Gone are the days when Segolene Royal was a hope of the French socialists: now the lady wants to stand as a candidate in the European elections with the populist Melenchon under the banner of sovereignty who sympathizes with Putin and hates Zelensky
From the extra tax on banks to the shadow of the assets and the return of the Treasury to Telecom, not to mention the new rules of big finance, the summer has laid bare all the approximation and amateurism of the Meloni government with a marked propensity…
Antics of the Five Stars on public funding for parties: first they open to its reintroduction but then they immediately reverse. The virus of populism is hard to defeat
The vice president of the European Commission and father of the Green Deal will lead the coalition between Socialists and Greens. The future of the country poised between unity and political fragmentation
The populist ghosts of the last electoral campaign present the bill and the prime minister must find a way to exorcise them in order to sign the Mes without losing face. But it's sure to happen. It's just a matter of image and time.…
Berlusconi lightly and ambiguously rode the anxious feeling of the Italians that paved the way for populism and when he tried to pull the brake it was late: it is the judgment of those who knew him well like Marco Follini, first ally and…
INTERVIEW WITH BENEDETTO DELLA VEDOVA, SECRETARY PIU' EUROPE FEDERATA WITH ACTION BY CARLO CALENDA: “This legislature can be considered a half-miracle. We are working to ensure that the next Parliament can cast a clear majority in favor of continuing the Agenda…
Will we end up removing the works of Pablo Picasso from museums or tearing down the statues of Christopher Columbus according to the mainstream of our times? The Economist asks it in an editorial, of which we publish the Italian version, which…
According to the French economist Thomas Piketty, the progressives of our times conquer the educated electorate but the conservatives keep the wealthy ones: this is why according to his recent working paper which has attracted the attention of the Economist of which we report the Italian version
Even if Trump were to leave the White House, he would not really have been defeated because Trump's season remains the embodiment of the populist scheme that drives the United States and which it was not the current president who created
In his new book against the tide, Stefano Cingolani had the courage to go against common sentiment speaking of good Capitalism, refuting the most widespread clichés and identifying a great value in its ability to renew itself, fundamental in a…
Courtesy of the author, we publish the foreword by the former editor of Corriere della sera and del Sole to the new book by Lino Terlizzi "No fear", whose subtitle "Facts and economic data for a counter-narrative in opposition to sovereignty and populism"…
The new book by Salvatore Rossi and Ferruccio de Bortoli analyzes the reasons and errors that have led to sovereignty and populism but also the country's recent signs of resistance. Businesses, banks, media, companies have their own responsibilities…
On September 19, 1955, the Argentine Armed Forces carried out, with the support of conservatives and socialists, the coup d'état that overthrew the controversial president Juan Domingo Peron who in 1946 had given birth to the so-called Peronism, a movement now…
To revitalize democracy undermined by populism, it is essential to recover the role of the so-called intermediate bodies of society
Riccardo Chiaberge, director of the Book of the Year published by Treccani, explains that an ancient tradition is hidden behind sovereign and populist slogans: "The archetype of Us against Them"
Rony Hamaui's latest book written with Andrea Boitani, entitled "Excuse me prof, what is populism?" was presented at the Trento Festival of Economics. - The paradox of anti-establishment movements which, however, then become establishments themselves.
In his new book "Ci salveremo" the former director of Corriere della Sera and Sole 24 Ore launches an appeal against indifference in the face of obscurantism that undermines our democracy but remains convinced that Italy can do it
INTERVIEW with LINDA LANZILLOTTA, former minister and vice-president of the Senate. "ENA has become the symbol of caste, which is why Macron wants to abolish it and bring the administration closer to the citizens" - "It is necessary to react to the progressive demolition of representative democracy" - "In Italy…
In his book "The 10 lies", Alessandro Barbano explains how populism and sovereignty were not born by chance, but from the mistakes of the ruling classes - However, the illusion of solving complex problems by taking shortcuts is proving to be catastrophic - Reacting is…
Fake news also existed at the beginning of the twentieth century and ended up accompanying the advent of Fascism - The news reported here is taken from Giampaolo Romanato's book "A different Italian. Giacomo Matteotti" published by Longanesi in 2011
In his essay "Counter-Revolution. The defeat of liberal Europe" Jan Zielonka, convinced liberal, professor at Oxford and student of Dahrendorf questions the crisis of liberalism and the rise of anti-establishment movements and argues that only through a profound self-criticism of liberalism…
Brexit and Trump's rise to the White House have upended the paradigms of political science - Now the Israeli scholar Yuval Noah Harari, who leads the bookshop, suggests in a new book published by goWare a new post-liberal order…
“The future ahead. Uncertainty, fear and the populist drug” is the title of the latest book by Ferruccio Cappelli, director of the Casa della Cultura in Milan: the author tries to classify a heterogeneous concept such as that of populism, which has become the political form…
Today a conference in Rome on participation and direct democracy - The leader of the fim-Cisl: "Free democracy is in crisis but national populism gives the wrong answers"
The social partners are increasingly irrelevant in the public confrontation on the economic maneuver but the responsibility for their decline lies solely with them - If many workers today vote for Lega or Cinque Stelle, the union should have the courage to recognize…
Against galloping sovereignty and populism, the most brilliant think tank in the world - that of the London magazine The Economist - rethinks liberalism and launches a manifesto to revitalize it by adapting it to our times
The global crisis has displaced not only liberalism but also liberalism and paved the way for protectionism and populism - This is why The Economist has opened a debate on the future of modern liberalism by revisiting some thinkers of the…
Ungoverned globalization has produced wealth but has upset the social balance of the West, putting the ruling classes in crisis - The technological revolution can be an opportunity to get out of the corner, provided that...
With Renzi's intervention at the Pd assembly, the opposition seems to wake up from the shock of the electoral defeat, but the democratic alternative to populism will remain a dream if it does not elaborate a convincing political platform or if it dusts off the recipes of the past, as it seems to propose …
Italy is the largest European country led by a government that publicly declares itself populist and anti-system and can act as a pole of attraction for regressive tendencies in the Old Continent and in the world, but there is a stone guest…
The Bank of Italy correctly photographs an Italian economy that has never been so good in the last 10 years but the country is once again in the financial storm and social suffering turns against the elite - Populism is the last…
The IAI organized an interesting debate on "Crisis-justice-democracy for Europe and Latin America" from which it emerged that both the crises and the populisms of the two continents present, beyond appearances, many more differences than similarities -…
From the United Kingdom to the United States, the populist wave is putting the independence of central banks to the test - What will happen in Italy after the electoral success of the Five Stars and the League who would like to put the Supervision of the Bank of Italy under…
INTERVIEW OF THE WEEKEND WITH LEONARDO MORLINO, Professor of Political Science at Luiss - "National political forces no longer have the power to manage major transformations and so sovereign ideologies arise that only fuel new illusions" -…
The parliamentary commission of inquiry into the banking system is not even a distant relative of the prestigious commissions of the past but, set up a few months before the elections, it risks only becoming an absurd "people's court", pushed by the transversal party of populism, for…
The parliamentary commission of inquiry into the banks risks becoming an ordeal between the political parties chasing electoral consensus with great benefit of the most vulgar and justicialist populism - But luckily the end of the legislature is near.
We are publishing a chapter of the report with which the general secretary of the FIm-Cisl, Marco Bentivogli, opened the national congress of his organization in Rome in front of a thousand delegates - Attached is the FULL TEXT OF THE REPORT.
WEEKEND INTERVIEW with former premier ROMANO PRODI - By courtesy of the publisher il Mulino and the author, we are exceptionally publishing a small excerpt from Prodi's new book "The Inclined Plane" which focuses not only on the urgency …
2016 saw a 14% increase in terrorist attacks worldwide - The increase in Western countries is 174%, with 96 attacks in 2016 compared to 35 in 2015 - 2017 is the first year of the last…
The Dutch vote banishes Europe's nightmares: Wilders' populism and anti-Europeanism seduce less than expected - Winders fails to make it and Prime Minister Rutte is preparing to remake the government - Boom of the Greens - Very high participation
In the latest issue of "Global Macro Shifts", the Templeton Global Macro team analyzes populist experiments in Latin America with particular reference to Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela - In this article, Michael Hasenstab summarizes the full article written from his team…
From the online magazine Affarinternazionali.it - Populist parties and movements tend to simplify reality by providing unique answers to complex questions, dividing society between honest citizens and corrupt elites and aiming for forms of direct democracy but there is no…
Gustavo Visentini, illustrious jurist, Luiss professor and lawyer, explains the reasons that lead him to vote YES in the next referendum on the constitutional reform and the risks one runs if the NO wins - A vote for the strengthening…
The re-nomination of Angela Merkel to lead Germany is a choice of courage and farsightedness which, beyond the dissent on the austerity policy, marks the continuity of Europe on the values of acceptance and integration in response to Brexit…
Lombard Odier Investment Managers' comment on the American elections: here's what the repercussions could be on investments and savings.
The economist and guru who anticipated the great crisis of 2008 was a guest of the Global Thinking Foundation in Milan. The analysis of possible scenarios in case Trump wins and the impact of a possible Clinton victory amidst populist thrusts…
The EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs: "These flexibilities are precise, limited and clearly explained" - No less important is the support for Renzi on a general political level: "In Italy there is a populist threat, and that is why we support the…
Mario Monti deserves gratitude for saving Italy from bankruptcy in 2011 but his scathing attack on Renzi on European politics reveals that, as the story of Civic Choice also demonstrates, politics is not his thing…
