Editorials
What use is Europe to Europeans?The astronomical distance between those who live and those who decideAbstention: the vote betrayed by inactionVoters do not ask for miracles: they ask that whoever blocks a public decision must step into the light.Brain drain: keep them, bring them back, attract them from the worldItaly does not lose its brains: it gives them away. And they call it fateMEPs: the bill we do not seeNot just salaries: every European seat activates a spending machine citizens pay for but struggle to scrutiniseDoes the law still serve the common good?The Strasbourg precedentFor the first time the Union puts a party’s values on trial through an administrative process. The target has made itself indefensible; the instrument will remain for everyone.Europe is not yours to remakeWelcoming people does not mean being changed by them: newcomers must respect the language, laws, work and civilisationThe workshop and the machineWhy artificial intelligence continues the history of labour automation and, for the first time, can help to improve itselfThe centrifugal force of a wealth taxWho really pays the bill when high incomes and wealth are taxedPolitics has only one programme: beating the other sideCitizens’ welfare comes later. Defeating the opponent comes first.The state that taxes you twiceSecurity, pensions, healthcare: you pay the state for entitlement, then pay privately to avoid going without. Filling the gaps has become the system.Meloni and the state that does not obey the ballotSea arrivals down, returns up, cities still vulnerable: the problem is not only who governs, but the machinery that really governsNeighbourhood shops: Italy behind shuttered windowsThe loss of civic outposts and the geography of our memoryDo not let them teach you to settle for lessItaly means value, quality and craft. Excessive competition becomes dangerous when it teaches young people that only price, speed and quantity matter.A people’s first law: mutual trustPatience, unlike the law, cannot be extended by decree.Returns and security: a law against impunityItaly turned into a permanent waiting roomPublic healthcare: rights can be the death of usItaly’s National Health Service costs over 140 billion a year. Those who work fund it, then often pay again for treatment. Are full rights without proportionate duties still sustainable?Italian schools: the false dilemma of 4+2It is not time that needs cutting, but the emptiness within it
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