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Strategy of tension
You can like them or not, but an attack which is carried at the core of the governing institutions of a country is always quite shocking. This is why some people are suggesting that today’s shooting is...
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Get to know each other
These two political leaders met tonight. My Belgian friends probably won’t know the guy on the right; my Italian friends probably won’t know the guy on the left. Elio di Rupo is the prime minister of...
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Autonomie speciali
Quello che penso sulle autonomie speciali sta racchiuso in una citazione dal libro di Walter Micheli. Le autonomie speciali delle regioni di confine devono essere elementi di forza per la riforma...
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Elio di Rupo
Simone é il ragazzo che si sporge accanto a Elio di Rupo nella foto qui sotto, che ho rubato dal suo profilo Facebook. Simone scrive: Forse il Belgio non è il paese migliore del mondo, però il fatto di...
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In defense of Henry
Henry Kissinger is turning 90 today. You can admire him or hate him, but he is one of the most intriguing political figures who have ever lived. In this and in many other senses, he is closely...
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Una pubblica ordalia
Non avrei immaginato di trovarmi a prendere le parti del M5S, una novità della politica italiana cui guardo con critica curiosità. Le mie opioni in merito risalgono a febbraio, sono qui e qui e nel...
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Meanwhile in Italy
Italy’s center-left demolished center-right Silvio Berlusconi’s coalition in all the administrative elections for the mayor of 16 major Italian municipalities, including Rome. The center-left candidate...
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Was Cheney right?
After Barack Obama was elected to his first term as President but before he took the oath of office, Vice-President Dick Cheney gave an exit interview to Rush Limbaugh. Under George W. Bush, Cheney was...
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They should never have been allowed the join
As part of the Schengen agreements, restrictions on people from Romania and Bulgaria wanting to come to the UK will be lifted from the end of the year, prompting some to fear a major influx of migrants...
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Moral suasion
The Catholic Church and the Trade Unions are two institutions apparently very different from each other. But they share a fundamental similarity: they are meant to play an essential role in promoting...
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Sulla situazione politica italiana
Dell’ennesimo harakiri del Partito Democratico nazionale – che segue a stretto giro quello del Partito Democratico locale – l’unico commento possibile é quello di Guido. Stanotte avevo caldo e sono...
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Perché la sinistra italiana fa pena
Ho alcuni amici che stanno provando a mettere in piedi una lista politica per le prossime elezioni provinciali in Trentino. Credo che uno degli obiettivi fosse quello di unire i rappresentanti di vari...
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Fraught with blind spots
On yesterday’s printed copy of La Repubblica, Barbara Spinelli, a well-known journalist and the daughter of Altiero, reflects on the role of Germany in Europe. What I found most interesting is her...
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Left-wing moralism
Guido Barilla, who controls the fourth-generation Barilla Group family business with his two brothers, sparked outrage among activists, consumers and some politicians when he said he would not consider...
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On faces. And ideas.
The more indifferent people are to the common good, the more obsessed they become with their own faces. This is what Kundera calls the individualism of our time. You can see the results in everyday...
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Morality and politics
Bettino Craxi is one of the most widely admired Italian politicians of all the times, in spite of the fact that his entire system of government was based on corruption. Benedetto Croce used to say that...
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Exit
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970) is a notorious treatise in which Albert O. Hirschman hinges on a conceptual ultimatum that concerns any form of human grouping. The idea is that people have essentially...
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Elezioni a Trento
A una settimana esatta dalle elezioni, un commento veloce sul voto in Provincia di Trento. Io ho votato Partito Democratico e ho espresso tre preferenze personali. Ha vinto Ugo Rossi, il candidato...
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Che fare?
Una seconda – e ultima – riflessione sulle elezioni in Trentino. Maurizio Teli - che non ho mai conosciuto personalmente anche se ci saremo pur incrociati qualche volta – scrive una lettera aperta alle...
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Non dirmi cosa, dimmi come
Leggo su Politica Responsabile le riflessioni di Luca Paolazzi su PD e prospettiva territoriale. Bene: condivido le sue idee. Ma poi mi chiedo: come? A Luca, a chi parla di “interloquire con tutti i...
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