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Guido Montani


Guido Montani is professor of international political economy at the University of Pavia. He is a former president of the European Federalist Movement in Italy. He founded in 1987, in Ventotene, the Altiero Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies. His latest book is Anthropocene and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Europe and the New International Order (Routledge, 2024).

Guido Montani

Europe’s Last Chance: Unite or Fall Apart

Guido Montani 5th March 2025

As global tensions rise, Europe faces a stark choice—build a defence force and reshape global finance or risk irrelevance.

A Vanguard for European Defence

Guido Montani 4th December 2024

Rising conflicts and EU aspirations for autonomy revive the call for a European defence force

Kant, Einstein and ‘perpetual peace’

Guido Montani 5th September 2024

In today’s runaway world, Einstein’s ideal of ‘abolishing war’ becomes unavoidable rather than impractical.

European election: defence and a European constitution

Guido Montani 6th May 2024

Europe’s electoral contestants must address the pressing need for a defence union and a democratic constitution.

European constitutional reform hangs in the balance

Guido Montani 7th December 2023

The EU needs more coherent governance not just to accommodate its enlargement but to assume its global responsibilities.

We only have one planet left to save

Guido Montani 14th July 2023

The ecosystem is a global public good. Partisan European divisions on the nature-restoration law cannot be justified.

The new European civil war

Guido Montani 6th February 2023

However the war in Ukraine ends, a new iron curtain will follow unless the EU lives up to its ‘geopolitical’ aspirations.

A European initiative for a global green deal

Guido Montani 7th November 2022

COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh is now open but the European Union does not seem to have the will to achieve serious goals.

A new Atlantic Charter

Guido Montani 8th June 2022

Ending the war in Ukraine and establishing a lasting peace in Europe require a new security architecture.

Young people and planetary justice

Guido Montani 14th September 2021

Ultimately, resolving the collective-action dilemma of preserving a liveable planet will require a UN ‘constitution of the Earth’.

The European Union and global governance

Guido Montani 13th April 2021

The EU’s strategic ambition must not be just to carve out a niche for itself among the major powers but to reshape global governance.

The supermarket of citizenship and European democracy

Guido Montani 28th July 2020

European citizenship must be invested with more political significance—and never treated as a commodity for sale.

A federal budget for European citzens

Guido Montani 20th May 2020

The proposal by the French president and the German chancellor for a €500 billion recovery fund refocuses attention on the EU budget—but that raises wider issues.

Save European citizens, and save the union

Guido Montani 3rd April 2020

In the face of the momentous internal and external threats facing European citizens, a merely intergovernmental European Union will fail to match them.

The Green Deal and a disordered world

Guido Montani 16th January 2020

The European Green Deal is a ray of hope but it faces two huge challenges: it must go global and the finances must be found.

The scramble for Europe

Guido Montani 24th September 2019

The European Union needs to lead the world towards a secure, multipolar future. If not, it will fall victim to the law of the political jungle.

Social discontent and democracy in the EU

Guido Montani 19th February 2019

Europe’s citizens stand restive at a crossroads. After the May parliamentary election, democracy in the EU can take a leap forward—or the populists can reprise a dark history. Peaceful protests are legitimate, and politicians have a duty to listen and respond to them. The recent social revolts in Europe, however, have deep roots. They are […]

For a democratic European government

Guido Montani 21st January 2019

The election to the European Parliament in May has one major flaw: it cannot lead to the election of a democratic European government. There is one issue which cannot be ignored by parties intending to take part in the forthcoming European election—the absence of a democratic European government. This is the main cause of the […]

A Joint Programme for Progressive Parties in the European Elections

Guido Montani 22nd November 2018

The forthcoming European Parliament (EP) election is destined to be make-or-break for the EU, determining whether Europe will continue on the path towards “an ever-closer union”, or be taken over by sovereigntist forces seeking to reduce it to a “League of Nations”. The growing support for nationalist parties in crucial countries such as Germany, France […]

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Since President Trump’s inauguration, the US – hitherto the cornerstone of Western security – is destabilising the world order it helped to build. The US security umbrella is apparently closing on Europe, Ukraine finds itself less and less protected, and the traditional defender of free trade is now shutting the door to foreign goods, sending stock markets on a rollercoaster. How will the European Union respond to this dramatic landscape change? .


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