It began with the crisis in Greece, then the maxi-shield by 750 thousand € against stock speculation, then the black days with repeated attacks to the squares of Milan and Madrid and then again the reforms and the "controlled regime" of the public accounts of nation-states. What is happening to Europe? It is because of some careless finger on the terminals of Wall Street? Blame the invisible rating agencies or a plot of the speculative market against the single European currency? On the ground all of the virtual global finance seems to have moved the offensive to the real economy of the "sovereign states" of Europe in an attempt to break the bank. This time you play with hedge funds betting on a wicked-designed for the collapse of the euro debt. That Greece was just the tip of the iceberg it was understood by the fact that after the go-ahead to aid the stock markets had continued their dangerous descent and show divisions within the member countries, including the hesitation a bit 'snooty of Germany, gave the confirmation of the amount received in the sanctuaries of finance: the political weakness of the European Union.
The genetic defect of the European Union lies in its construction which resulted in a currency, the euro, without condition and without a government. Maastricht with its exclusion clause has proved to be a cage and the Stability Pact nothing but a set of directions without any real supervisory authority. In the world risk society, where every country is connected, there are elites who are saved, among other things, throwing overboard the ballast, such as Germany had planned to do if greek. The Old Continent is thus found entangled in other logics than that democratic visionary project that the fathers of Europe had supported and partially realized. From
manifesto Ventotene of Spinelli to the Black Friday stock market seems to end a season that began with the dream of a common democratic values \u200b\u200band inspired by high end nell'euroscetticismo of "small homelands" dominated by big egos. The impasse of a union of nation states could be resolved only found in a single project, a challenge of which he speaks Joschka Fischer, German Foreign Minister when he raises the idea of \u200b\u200bthe state in Europe, a geopolitical entity in a position to defeat the inequalities and discrimination in a shared design involving citizens and politics, not stranded in the shallows of the market or the bureaucrats of the building. In short, the fear of collapse seems to push Europe towards that great and ancient dream of a real "government" of the single currency. Only then jammed the way the Union would find its recovery. That nation states should cede their power and slices of who undertook to fill the uneven political, economic and cultural eurozone, launching strategies for action inspired by cooperation rather than the mere particular. The draconian measures in the financial field unless called on Member States is not so virtuous a punishment imposed by the states "virtuous and industrious. Even Jacques Delors, the father of Europe considers the lack of cooperation the real Achilles' heel of Europe. In fact, the current climate is for everyone to limit Europhobia: the disenchanted British, Germans and French on the ropes and practically everywhere small triumph of nationalism and ancient prejudices. In the history of the Union, the euro from the womb to the looming crisis has always weighed the ethnic factor, the anthropological and cultural difference between the states "virtuous" and were lax (the "PIIGS"), so on one hand the Nordic with their severity and the other Greek, Portuguese, English, Italian fraud by vocation, genetically prepared approximation. As long as these prejudices and stereotypes will find fertile ground, supported by a review public fodder for shortsighted political leaders who ride the fear and selfishness, and truly shared nothing lasting can take place in Europe. The laboratory is Europe back on track soon and because member states are well aware that, as stated in the Manifesto Ventotene: "The way ahead is not easy or safe - but should be covered and it will be."
Angela Poli
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