The challenge of the destiny that awaits us
Antonio Padoa-Schioppa’s latest book is a lucid summary of the issues that Europe needs to address.
Crisis, full stop? Or crisis and ways to emerge from it? These questions have obvious answers, but truly demand a guide organised by subject and stages. This is what Antonio Padoa-Schioppa has attempted with his Destini incrociati. Europa e crisi globali (Destinies intertwined: Europe and global crises), a book which has just been published. In its first pages, it expresses a “feeling of trust, but made up of responsibility” to convey “to the youngest readers” first and foremost, but which it would do everyone good to receive.
The author addresses crises starting from 10 words and from Europe. The first are: climate, energy, defence, reforms, budget, taxation, inequality, West, East, United Nations. The European Union, on the other hand, is the leading player today called upon to address these issues, which are all challenges to overcome.
Ten issues for negotiation between Europe and the planet make up the same number of chapters in Padoa-Schioppa’s book, which ends with a letter to the confirmed EC President Ursula von der Leyen.
The author leads the reader along a path that sees Europe as an extraordinary place of converging interests and values, a path punctuated by the themes identified by the different words which summarise them. However, the path leads to the question of whether the EU will truly be able to remain a global reality, whether it will truly succeed, even in the face of today’s crises, in continuing to institutionalise its peace and whether, finally, it will prove capable of leading Europe into the future.
This all reaches its conclusion in a letter to the President of the Commission – an act of trust and not naivety, Padoa-Schioppa clarifies. One of the letter’s final passages says: “Crises represent the origins of turning points; they birth them. And it is leadership that seizes on and promotes their potential. And finally, it’s the grassroots pressure (…) that provides the leadership with the necessary consensus support, which unfortunately is not enough on its own.” Democracy and unity therefore appear to be the real resources available for overcoming even such a difficult period as this.
Antonio Padoa-Schioppa’s book is a must-read for all: by those who are “merely” members of the public and those with decision-making responsibilities in businesses and institutions.
Destini incrociati. Europa e crisi globali
Antonio Padoa-Schioppa
il Mulino, 2024
Antonio Padoa-Schioppa’s latest book is a lucid summary of the issues that Europe needs to address.
Crisis, full stop? Or crisis and ways to emerge from it? These questions have obvious answers, but truly demand a guide organised by subject and stages. This is what Antonio Padoa-Schioppa has attempted with his Destini incrociati. Europa e crisi globali (Destinies intertwined: Europe and global crises), a book which has just been published. In its first pages, it expresses a “feeling of trust, but made up of responsibility” to convey “to the youngest readers” first and foremost, but which it would do everyone good to receive.
The author addresses crises starting from 10 words and from Europe. The first are: climate, energy, defence, reforms, budget, taxation, inequality, West, East, United Nations. The European Union, on the other hand, is the leading player today called upon to address these issues, which are all challenges to overcome.
Ten issues for negotiation between Europe and the planet make up the same number of chapters in Padoa-Schioppa’s book, which ends with a letter to the confirmed EC President Ursula von der Leyen.
The author leads the reader along a path that sees Europe as an extraordinary place of converging interests and values, a path punctuated by the themes identified by the different words which summarise them. However, the path leads to the question of whether the EU will truly be able to remain a global reality, whether it will truly succeed, even in the face of today’s crises, in continuing to institutionalise its peace and whether, finally, it will prove capable of leading Europe into the future.
This all reaches its conclusion in a letter to the President of the Commission – an act of trust and not naivety, Padoa-Schioppa clarifies. One of the letter’s final passages says: “Crises represent the origins of turning points; they birth them. And it is leadership that seizes on and promotes their potential. And finally, it’s the grassroots pressure (…) that provides the leadership with the necessary consensus support, which unfortunately is not enough on its own.” Democracy and unity therefore appear to be the real resources available for overcoming even such a difficult period as this.
Antonio Padoa-Schioppa’s book is a must-read for all: by those who are “merely” members of the public and those with decision-making responsibilities in businesses and institutions.
Destini incrociati. Europa e crisi globali
Antonio Padoa-Schioppa
il Mulino, 2024