Jean Monnet, one of the founding fathers of Europe, said that in addition to uniting states, it is necessary to unite people, European nations.. Now, forty-four years after the first elections to the European Parliament, Europe finds itself in a paradoxical situation: Member countries were united, but not enough to form what many of the Founding Fathers had dreamed of, namely the United States of Europe; cumbersome and inefficient European governance did provide answers to citizens, but often less punctually; European sentiment has certainly grown over the years, especially with the advent of powerful financial instruments such as Pnrr, or during crises such as the crisis associated with the Covid pandemic or the war in Ukraine, but it has also grown since the great financial crisis of the last decade , sovereignist, nationalist and populist movements which, especially when they have come to govern their countries, act and act as a brake on the resolution of important structural crises (i.e. what is happening is Lampedusa is the last smoking gun).
This Europe at a crossroads, which is preparing to lead its citizens to the elections of a new European Parliament next June, is what we will try to tell on this daily page that we dedicate to it.. With their strengths and weaknesses, with their hopes and fears, with their hundreds, thousands of contradictions. Europe’s Green Deal, its desire to lead the fight against climate change at a global level, but also its inability to take companies, agricultural and otherwise, by the hand and help them through the transition.
A Europe whose flag flies proudly in the rioting squares of Georgia, but which cannot play an independent role in the international crisis that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.. A Europe that knows how to save lives at sea and knows how to welcome, but which is bogged down in the management of migrants, dragging behind it those who, on the one hand, would only like to build walls, and on the other, those who would like to open ports indiscriminately . The European dream still exists: it has been partially realized, but much remains to be done and there are serious dangers on the doorstep.
And if you are, like us, pro-European, if you are madly in love with the idea of Europe, but also realize that it will take a lot of determination (and a lot of political smarts) to overcome the obstacles we face, all you have to do is write to us and offer your contribution.
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