La “tempesta perfetta” potrebbe arrivare anche prima del 2030: cominciamo a pensarci
Tuesday February 21st, 2012 | 06:07 pm | Dialoghi tra padre e figlio, Future, Books, Politica italiana
È ormai in circolazione da quasi un mese il libro che ho scritto con Gianluca Comin: 2030 La tempesta perfetta – Come sopravvivere alla Grande Crisi. L’accoglienza è stata ottima, com’è testimoniato dalle numerosissime recensioni. Mi sembra giunto il momento di tracciare un primo bilancio, anche perché Gianluca e io abbiamo fatto questo lavoro per stimolare il dibattito in Italia su temi importanti, sistematicamente accantonati di fronte alle emergenze. Vorrei sottolineare tre cose: le caratteristiche temporali del nostro discorso, la natura delle sfide che abbiamo di fronte e i ritardi, soprattutto nel nostro Paese, nell’elaborazione delle risposte.
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.
Riflessioni ferroviarie, dopo l’articolo del NYT
Saturday December 15th, 2007 | 08:08 pm | Uncategorized
“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 also bad behaviour by some citizens combine in a tangle very difficult to solve.
Smash: non ci resta che ridere
Monday December 10th, 2007 | 09:57 am | Uncategorized
The Italian Vips don’t accept humour and are ready to sue the journalists who criticize them. A book about them gives us, at least, a chance to laugh.
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”.
Viva la democrazia! Sì, ma quale?
Sunday November 11th, 2007 | 10:18 am | Uncategorized
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 very dangerous because the majority is uninformed and tends to decide without considering all the aspects of each issue. Other systems are under trial: “democracy by ballot” (a group of citizens is chosen to get informed and decide on each issue), “democracy by media”, mobilizing people through television or internet, or “primary voting” on very general issues, just to confirm a ruling class that has already been selected. Each system has its own defects. Probably the only possible, even if partial, answer is democracy through the multiplication of local initiatives offering to the citizens a place to debate, as once it happened in the party meetings. It’s a process just starting in Italy, but the demand for participation is high.
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.
Sabato mattina, alla Costituente Socialista…
Sunday October 7th, 2007 | 09:46 pm | Amarcord, Persone, Politica italiana
The new Partito Socialista celebrated yesterday its rebirth with a meeting in which its leaders showed courage, ideas and good will. My relations with the Socialists have not been easy, in the past, but I am ready to place faith on the new initiative.
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.
