Geopolitics
A personal essay on what it means to feel European today, written from three years spent studying between London, Madrid and Paris, and what that distance revealed about home, identity and where Italy fits into it all.
Geopolitics
In the second half of the book Draghi stops diagnosing and asks European politics to choose: remain a large regulated market, or finally become a state
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In 1861 seven states with seven currencies, seven armies and seven fiscal systems became one nation. It was painful, it left wounds that exist to this day. But it worked. And the process that led to Italian unification resembles, more than one might think, what Europe has yet to complete.
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Draghi does not describe a Europe in difficulty. He describes a Europe with too many divergent directions, none of which leads anywhere useful. The technological gap with the United States is not inevitable: it is the result of the wrong choices, repeated for twenty years.
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There is a negotiation underway in Brussels that will decide what Europe looks like for the next seven years. It receives little attention, which tells me a great deal about where we stand.
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Europe's five largest military powers are in Berlin today. Rutte is on video from Washington, with Trump. Five countries trying to speak with one voice ahead of Ankara, without the institutions to back it up.
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Germany's rearmament is a budget figure, not an alarmist projection. But Europe has yet to decide whether it wants to contain it within a common framework or let the continent's largest industrial power rearm alone
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Trump told Italian television that Meloni had begged him for a photograph at the G7. Hegseth called Europe's leaders shameful. This is not a diplomatic crisis. It is a war over what the word "West" still means.
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Europe's mainstream right is chasing the far right on immigration and calling it a European project. It is not. And the difference is everything.
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Trump, Netanyahu, Iran and the collapse of American deterrence
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I studied international relations. I read Brzezinski, Mearsheimer, Kissinger. They told me the Middle East was chaotic but legible, a puzzle with fixed pieces, held in place by American weight. That world is gone. What we are watching now is not a crisis. Crises resolve. This is a restructuring. And
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There is a question circulating for months in the corridors of international diplomacy: why won’t Israel stop? The official answer speaks of security, deterrence, Hamas to be eliminated. The real answer is more uncomfortable: because stopping would mean bringing down the government. Benjamin Netanyahu, three decades of power, open