Month: December 2018

Italy: the next Eurozone crisis looms

In June, when Italy’s populist 5-Star Movement (M5S) and the Northern League agreed to form the republic’s 61st post-WWII government, a conflict with the [...]

Change we don’t believe in

Change. It’s a political buzzword. Even though there is broad consensus in western countries that the modern, democratic welfare state is the optimal way to [...]

Politics is wrecking civil society

Representative democracy in one form or another has been the norm in Western societies since the post-industrial revolution years. The idea of one man, one [...]