The Europe of the “united states”
The present and future of the EU outlined in a newly published book
The European Union has been, and still is, many things: project and ideal, hope and (for some) danger, construction project and challenge. And it is something that even today (maybe more today than in the past) should be protected and defended, also because of its economic significance, as well as cultural and social. Knowing its history and current affairs is of benefit to everyone. In the year of the European elections, Gianluca Passarelli – who teaches Political Science at the Sapienza Università di Roma – adopts a combined historical, cultural and political science approach to narrate its rough path in a new book that has just been published.
Without defence or rhetoric, Stati Uniti d’Europa. Un’epopea a dodici stelle (United States of Europe: a 12-starred epic), analyses not only united Europe’s problems but above all its prospects and the path remaining to be taken to finally achieve the ‘United States of Europe’. And it is precisely the future that Passarelli considers most carefully. The book also analyses the main challenges facing Europe: the economic crisis, inequalities between member states, the shadow of war, the threat of nationalism and populism, the enigma of a foreign and defence policy still too unbalanced between states and exposed to decisions by NATO and the USA. Added to these are the economic tensions between North and South and political tensions between Eurosceptics and those who support closer union. All these issues are important not only for individual citizens, but also for those who – in the business world – are responsible for their strategies and development.
The vision to strive for, in the author’s view, is that of “a Union united and common above all with regard to democracy, the true strength of its identity”, but also with regard to the business system and the very culture that has to characterise production organisations.
Gianluca Passarelli’s book is a good tool for better understanding of the state of the European Union and, therefore, forming the store of knowledge required to be an informed member of today’s economic and social system.
The opening of the book is admirable: “The greatest institutional, political, social and economic construction of the last 5000 years to be built by humanity on planet Earth: that’s the European Union.”
Stati Uniti d’Europa. Un’epopea a dodici stelle
Gianluca Passarelli
EGEA, 2024
The present and future of the EU outlined in a newly published book
The European Union has been, and still is, many things: project and ideal, hope and (for some) danger, construction project and challenge. And it is something that even today (maybe more today than in the past) should be protected and defended, also because of its economic significance, as well as cultural and social. Knowing its history and current affairs is of benefit to everyone. In the year of the European elections, Gianluca Passarelli – who teaches Political Science at the Sapienza Università di Roma – adopts a combined historical, cultural and political science approach to narrate its rough path in a new book that has just been published.
Without defence or rhetoric, Stati Uniti d’Europa. Un’epopea a dodici stelle (United States of Europe: a 12-starred epic), analyses not only united Europe’s problems but above all its prospects and the path remaining to be taken to finally achieve the ‘United States of Europe’. And it is precisely the future that Passarelli considers most carefully. The book also analyses the main challenges facing Europe: the economic crisis, inequalities between member states, the shadow of war, the threat of nationalism and populism, the enigma of a foreign and defence policy still too unbalanced between states and exposed to decisions by NATO and the USA. Added to these are the economic tensions between North and South and political tensions between Eurosceptics and those who support closer union. All these issues are important not only for individual citizens, but also for those who – in the business world – are responsible for their strategies and development.
The vision to strive for, in the author’s view, is that of “a Union united and common above all with regard to democracy, the true strength of its identity”, but also with regard to the business system and the very culture that has to characterise production organisations.
Gianluca Passarelli’s book is a good tool for better understanding of the state of the European Union and, therefore, forming the store of knowledge required to be an informed member of today’s economic and social system.
The opening of the book is admirable: “The greatest institutional, political, social and economic construction of the last 5000 years to be built by humanity on planet Earth: that’s the European Union.”
Stati Uniti d’Europa. Un’epopea a dodici stelle
Gianluca Passarelli
EGEA, 2024