News - 7 Maggio 2020 What Will the Post-COVID19 World Be Like According to Commissioner Borrell The crisis will not change or delete those issues, but it will speed them up, reinforce and exacerbate them: “We will surely find that tomorrow’s world will be like today’s, only worse,” said Borrell.
News - 14 Giugno 2019 European Citizens Want to Protect and Change Europe The unexpected new thing revealed by the elections is the fact that political forces that are not against the institutional system (ALDE and the Greens) have been able to attract and provide political representation to the demand for (a better) Europe. It is to be hoped that this demand will not be betrayed. Europe needs profound innovation in a plurality of strategic fields of policy – the environment, the job market, the fight against inequalities, the economy, migration, social cohesion, trade, security and rights. It is to be hoped that the new political order emerging from the ballot box will enable the democratic forces to deal with this huge task adequately. The opportunities to learn from mistakes are infinite.
Arts - 8 Maggio 2019 BARCA NOSTRA, an Exhibition on Europe’s Migration Crisis at La Biennale Exactly four years after the tragic shipwreck that occurred on April 18th, 2015, the boat was released on April 18th, 2019, by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the Italian Ministry of Defense, to be handed over to the Commune of Augusta through the project BARCA NOSTRA. It was a bureaucratic odyssey riddled with obstacles, to clear the ownership and responsibilities regarding the shipwreck’s uncertain fate, and to prepare the boat for the continuation of its journey.
News - 19 Febbraio 2019 The De-Americanization of Europe: Two Continents Further Widened by Trump The two continents have decided to each go their own way. North America and Europe are separating: politically, militarily and culturally. A clear indication emerges from the recent Franco-German treaty signed at Aachen. It aims explicitly at the creation of two autonomous military alliances. French President Emmanuel Macron made this clear when he declared last […]
News - 27 Dicembre 2018 From Being Part of the Erasmus Generation to a Convinced Eurosceptic I had friends from all over Europe. We were young, but we still opened the door to the diversity that characterizes us in our adulthood. The Germans would quietly show off, they were the momentum of the European economy…
News - 18 Dicembre 2018 Identity? It Is like Drinking Coke When You Are Thirsty If a person is thirsty and all she/he can see is a glass of Coca-Cola, she/he will want to drink it, seeing it as the right way to quench their thirst. And yet we know that drinking a sugary drink like Coca-Cola only gives a momentary reprieve from thirst, after which it gets worse...
New York - 12 Ottobre 2018 Building the Bridge Between European and American Innovation in New York New York City finds itself, as is its nature, a patchwork of a thousand industries thriving together. In the City you’ll find as many fashion and design startups, as digital health and platform technologies. True to its nature, New York City provides a platform for all European startups who seek to expand, and more often than not, this can be achieved through these startups’ own government, and the connections it has striven to achieve in recent years.
News - 20 Agosto 2018 Orban & Co.: The Siren of Identity That Is Seducing Europe Before this anthropological more than political drift, the temptation many contemporary liberal thinkers – be they from the left or right – is to adopt a defensive position. Yet, in so doing what is fostered is, paradoxically, the “we/them” juxtaposition and with it the consequent militarization of affects that is the fuel of the ultra-right project
Mediterranean - 5 Luglio 2018 Migrants, Europe Needs Vision, not Tactics Last 28th and 29th June there was an important political meeting of the European Council, focusing on migration. The Council was held in a very polarized and bewildering scenario. Despite many observers fully expecting it to fail, it was able to reach an agreement, but a real, shared solution is still faraway
Mediterranean - 8 Giugno 2018 The Reform of Dublin III: the cul-de-sac of the European Migration Policy The Rule defines the distribution of responsibilities among EU states regarding asylum seekers. But the reform proposal that tries a compromise between the Dublin III Rule and the request to introduce compulsory quotas didn't reach an agreement among Member States