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Per un’ONU più aperta e democratica

Un mondo interconnesso ha bisogno di più governance globale, spiega Riccardo Moschetti.

jeudi 17 juin 2021

For a more open and democratic UN

An interconnected world needs more global governance, argues Riccardo Moschetti.

mercredi 5 mai 2021

As von der Leyen builds her Commission, the divided European Parliament can be an opportunity

Summertime doesn’t mean holidays for everyone. Ursula Von der Leyen, President-elect of the European Commission, is travelling around EU capitals in an effort to uphold her first promise : gender balance among the Commissioners. After she has assembled the 27-piece puzzle, the European (…)

vendredi 9 août 2019

Fixing the Spitzenkandidaten system for a more democratic EU

After more or less a month from the elections, the ninth legislature of the European Parliament started the same day as the European Council met for the third time in a row in order to find an agreement on the so called ‘EU top jobs’ package. The most important debate was on the name of the (…)

lundi 15 juillet 2019

The paradox of the next European elections

The elections to the European Parliament will commence in less than 30 days. Due to the Brexit extension granted to the UK, for the first time in history we won’t know how many MEPs will be elected to the European Parliament until the day before the elections. At the same time, it was the (…)

mardi 30 avril 2019

Intervista a Mercedes Bresso, parlamentare S&D

Nel giugno 1979 i cittadini europei vennero chiamati al voto in occasione della prima elezione diretta del Parlamento Europeo. Il 62% degli elettori si presentarono alle urne, ed elessero 410 eurodeputati. Molte cose sono cambiate in questi quarant’anni. Un dato in particolare, però, sembra (…)

jeudi 14 mars 2019

Quand aucun parti européen ne répond aux attentes des citoyens, la voie est libre pour les populismes

Au début de la deuxième décennie du nouveau millénaire, avec la diffusion de la crise économique et financière à travers le monde, l’idée que la différence entre la gauche et la droite avait disparu a marqué la vie politique de plusieurs pays. Toutefois, la réalité est plus complexe.

samedi 16 février 2019

Prepararsi alle elezioni europee

A sinistra vedete la composizione del Parlamento Europeo (PE) dopo le elezioni del 2014, a destra una possibile proiezione del PE dopo l’appuntamento elettorale del prossimo maggio. A volte le immagini valgono più di mille parole. E questo ne è decisamente l’esempio. C’è un punto su tutti che (…)

vendredi 18 janvier 2019

When there are no European parties to respond to citizens’ demands, you get populism

At the beginning of the second decade of the new millennium, with the spread of the economic and financial crisis all over the world, the idea that the difference between the left and the right had vanished influenced national political arenas. The truth is a bit different, however.

mercredi 16 janvier 2019

Why the EPP Congress helped the party to win the next European elections

With 79% of the votes (492 out of 619 valid votes cast), on Thursday Manfred Weber became the lead candidate of the European People’s Party for the next European elections in May 2019. And, even if the campaign for the EP elections has just officially started, Weber is in fact the most likely man in Europe to win the Commission presidency as there’s no reason to doubt that the EPP will be, again, the largest group inside the European Parliament.

samedi 10 novembre 2018

The problem with modern democracies : Lack of global leadership

Riccardo Moschetti points to the lack of global governance as an issue for representative liberal democracy.

lundi 30 juillet 2018

How not to win the next European elections

Riccardo Moschetti warns against challenging populists to a referendum between today’s EU and no EU at all. Instead, he calls on parties to present their vision for a different Europe.

vendredi 27 juillet 2018

Riccardo Moschetti

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