Supercommissari per le tante spazzature del Sud
Tuesday January 8th, 2008 | 10:46 pm | Uncategorized
The scandal of garbage collecting in Naples shows the failure of the policies of the last decades in the South of Italy, where local politicians have received money and powers without being able to develop their territories and to defend the legal system. The South does not need only a “Supercommissioner” with special authority for the garbage of Naples: political powers should be given back to the central government in all activities infiltrated by the organized crime. But putting under tutorship the Regions of the South, while leaving autonomy to the other Regions, who have demonstrated that they can stand on their own, is impossible without a very strong political coalition.
Sei top down o bottom up?
Monday November 26th, 2007 | 10:33 pm | Uncategorized
You can stand on the right or on the left of the political circus, but a new dimension is now getting critical. There are people who believe in the political institutions and in the need to improve their functioning in order to control globalisation and others who think that the only useful political activity can be at the local level and that any valid change should come from the bottom. For me it’s obvious that local best practices, national politics, international governance are all necessary. It’s no use to play them one against the other, as if they were different ideologies. But more and more I meet people who are just “top down” or “bottom up”.
Primarie. Mi spiegate per che cosa si vota?
Thursday October 11th, 2007 | 07:52 am | Uncategorized
What are we supposed to vote for, in the primary elections of the new Partito democratico? If the event is just the choice of the internal structure and of its leader, I will not vote because I do not belong to this Party; and in any case, if I decided to vote, I would choose Enrico Letta, the most courageous in renovating the programs of the Party. On the other hand, if the electors are called to choose the future candidate of the Centre Left coalition, somebody who might have a chance to beat Silvio Berlusconi, then I will think that going to the polls is my right and my duty; but in that case the only realistic choice would be to vote for Walter Veltroni.
Mi chiamo Speroni, mio nonno era mugnaio sull’Olona, però…
Sunday September 30th, 2007 | 07:41 am | Amarcord, Europa, Nord e Sud
About the risk of secession in Italy, my family name, the hurried way in which people read articles on the screen…
Se il Belgio si divide l’Italia esplode
Sunday September 23rd, 2007 | 02:05 pm | Uncategorized
Italy like Belgium? In a recent comment on the Belgian crisis, The Economist wrote: “Sometimes it is right for a country to recognize that a job is done”. States are changing all over Europe, and secessions are not necessarily traumatic as they used to be. See Czechoslovakia. In Italy the North and the South are more and more apart, so a “divorce” becomes possible, even if it’s frightening for most of the population.
