Europe that betrays itself (Marco Emanuele)

We can say everything about Europe except that it is a "political community". Today's Europe demonstrates, once again, that history is not "teacher of life."

If there was really a european citizenship, if we had politicians able to have strategic visions and not only tactics limited to the eternal present, we could say that Europe is an extraordinary experiment of "supranational democracy"; unfortunately, we are "prisoners" of too many "if."

Europe is increasingly characterized by "walls" (material and cultural) that, wanting to defend the security of peoples, sacrifice their freedom. Rather than rethink the "good government", in the "political vacuum" of this historical time it seems to win leaders who seeking consensus in the "instincts" of the masses instead dialoguing with the "reason" of the citizens.

Europe could be a laboratory of the "complex politics" that has sense, dignity and ability to understand and to govern the vital historical processes that, beyond the technocrats and the most different populists, are inescapable and ask a new realism, a return to the reality of the worlds-of-life.