Italy: a ‘post-fascist’ assault on democratic checks
The Meloni government in Italy is betting everything on radical and polarising constitutional reforms.
Italy’s election: a far-right high, on a low budget
The honeymoon for a Meloni-led, right-wing government may prove to be shortlived.
Draghi’s resignation: what next?
Valerio Alfonso Bruno and Vittorio Emanuele Parsi
Only one political figure will benefit from chaos in Italy. He is in Moscow, not Rome.
Ukraine and Europe’s defence spending
Valerio Alfonso Bruno and Adriano Cozzolino
Europe’s reaction to the Ukraine crisis will do much to define what kind of Europe it is to be.
Matteo Salvini’s League and the price of unbridled populism
Valerio Alfonso Bruno and Vittorio Emanuele Parsi
The strength of populism is its simple message that ‘the people’ are traduced by an ‘elite’ linked to ‘foreign’ interlopers. That’s also its weakness.
Science and politics: a new alliance?
The pandemic has brought science and expertise to the fore in the public sphere, as an anchor of trust—and put the populists on the back foot.
Lobbying In The EU: An Often Unholy Alliance
With movies such as Inside Job and Thank you for Smoking or TV series like House of Cards, the US model of influencing decisions and
Towards The Disappearance Of Politics?
The crisis of political debate within contemporary democracies Exactly sixty years ago, in 1958, Hannah Arendt published The Human Condition. In her philosophical masterpiece, Arendt
The Production Of Fear. European Democracies In The Age Of Populisms And Technocracies
Populisms and Technocracies: mastering the art of evoking fears In Europe, home to one of the most ambitious political and institutional experiments in recent history,