In the tragedy of history, the history of Europe is a tragedy. This is the harsh reality whose admission will never happen because the presumption of its architects cannot reveal the great bluff born in a hybrid construction site where finance and markets ate the political thickener, that is, the heart of any institutional project. Without politics there is no society, there are no citizens, there is no vision of what is beyond the graphs and stock market trends. After decades of rhetoric, all pillars of the narrative are falling apart: from an inflation-protected currency to a flexible but inclusive labor market, especially for young people; from the abolition of borders to a pro-European sentiment that transforms into citizenship. Until the guarantee of peace: Europe as a guarantor of peace, after the short century marked by world wars. And instead, we are faced with a war in the East that will lead nowhere militarily, but from which we don’t know how to get out, and another – devastating – that we still don’t know how it will accelerate. In the middle, the fear that everything will come together in yet another global drama. The conflict in Ukraine speaks to Europe, it smells of Europe, it enters Europe, but Europe doesn’t know how to get out, how to speak, how to move. A stunning failure, certainly the result of an inadequate ruling class, but also of a design flaw in the European Union itself.
In the enormous tragedy of Hamas’ attack on Israel, there is that usual area of the Mediterranean that seethes with ancient hatreds, but which a courageous handshake between Rabin and Arafat could cool. In that Mediterranean where Oslo’s best intentions were blowing, Europe should have demonstrated its political potential, increasing the role that Clinton had at the time, that is, America. Because either you play as a big global player or this “thing” that presumes to be called Europe doesn’t make sense. Today we can say: Europe makes no sense. But it will continue due to inertia, moving us further and further away from the clearinghouses where Politics really counts, as a regulator of growing asymmetries fueled by the greed of a financial elite that presents itself as power. Europe knows nothing about its center of gravity, the Mediterranean; he is unable to divide it into its areas, from the one facing the Middle East to the other African part; it knows nothing about the balance of diplomatic relations, about which we have lost the entire plot, except for sending an emergency when too many migrants arrive.
Thirty years passed between the Oslo and Abraham Accords: where was the much-hyped Europe? Not received. Without a position capable of having a function. The Italy of the First Republic, from Mattei to Craxi, had considerable weight in these areas, so powerful that it allowed the first to negotiate with Iran and the second to justify in parliament the PLO’s right to wage its armed battle (without sharing its interests). politicians). which means “because it will not lead to any solution”). Today it is difficult to move forward independently because we are in a European context; but Europe does nothing. If you don’t absorb everything that happens like a sponge.
Source: IL Tempo

Emma Fitzgerald is an accomplished political journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in political science and international relations, she has a deep understanding of the political landscape and the forces that shape it.