“Italy is in a funk”, wrote the New York Times. In my opinion, something worse is happening, because Italians do not believe any more that the political class, any political class, will be able to solve their problems. Even the small ones, like the dirty toilets in the trains. Incompetence, unefficient or corrupted administration, but…
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…
How do we imagine democracy in the 21st century? I don’t think that the system of electing political representatives for four or five years, as envisaged two hundred years ago, is still satisfactory for the citizens of modern states. On the other hand the forms of direct participation, now technically possible through the Net, are…
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…
Seen from Italy, all the traditional political instruments look crumbling. The United Nations cannot be reformed and cannot cope with the worst crises, the European Union is paralyzed after its enlargement and should start anew from a smaller group of nations, in this country the unity between a North and a South that are more…
As a journalist, I spent most of my professional life writing, mainly about economics, statistics and their political implications. I started to have a blog in Italian one year ago, on the political website Terza Repubblica, but I realized that the only way to start a discussion on the topics which interest me is to write in English
