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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How effective will Italy’s ‘Sardine movement’ prove in the upcoming regional election?Crucially, the movement has contradicted Salvini’s assertion that he alone represents the true ‘will of the people’.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From sardines to a new language of politics? An interview with Paul GinsborgOn the doldrums in which the Italian Left has languished for many years, and the new democratic energies which have...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?50 years since the Piazza Fontana bombing and Italy is still facing-up to its ‘years of lead’Half a century has passed since one of the darkest moments in the history of the republic, yet the state’s own role...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s migration tourniquet comes full circleFor every asylum application that was accepted in the EU last year, two were rejected. Anti-migration rhetoric has...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Shared histories: Austria’s interest in Italy is still very much alive"Call it a Europe-building exercise imposed from above, if you must. For me, cynicism had no place on screen last night.”
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Walking on a thin lineThe game of Italian politics has never been so dangerous and high-stakes. Party leaders are willing to play.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?European identity and the paradox of anti-communismThe European Parliament’s conflation of Soviet Communism and Nazi-Fascism, says more about the present paranoia...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy – not all doom and gloom“Crimes reported in 2017 are down by more than 10 percent compared to 2016, while murders have almost halved in ten...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?We need to look in a different direction to solve the current crisis of liberalismCan liberalism be saved from obsolescence and does this really matter? Did the recent European elections spare us...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Shakespeare obliterates Greater Rome’s far-right slogansThe surprise was great… yet no one removed the sheets. Needless to say, they’ve now gone viral.
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Published in: 50.50The war on Europe’s women and LGBTIQ people has only just begunThe far right did not conquer the European Parliament – but this doesn’t mean the threats to our rights have...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s vote and Italy’s right-wing blocThe space for a populist policy that denies the ‘right-left’ divide has shrunk, confirming that such a project is...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Thoughts for my fascist brother in the North of Italy“Far from rejecting the ‘establishment’ they criticize, the League has always represented the interests of corporate...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Ius soli: Italy’s opportunity to harness much-needed talentIn the US, or anywhere else where there is birthright citizenship – a person like Great Nnachi would be American.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?It’s not so hilarious on the balconies of ItalyWhen a young woman embarrassed Matteo Salvini during another of his endless stream of selfies a week or so back: “do...
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Published in: 50.50Is your prosecco funding the far right?British restaurant critic Jay Rayner slams leading prosecco firm for sponsoring coalition of ‘racists, bigots and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?European citizenship for all residents in the EU? Let’s carry on the fightTwo stories about Salvini’s Italy explain why our transnational political community of Europe must include, on the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy: real weapons of mass distractionMatteo Salvini’s rhetoric is getting ever more worrying as we approach the EU elections.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How the 5-Star Movement is losing support over broken green promisesMore than 50 pages were dedicated to the environment in the M5S electoral programme, fruit of an online consultation...
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