Lorenzo Marsili is a philosopher, activist, author and director of the Berggruen Institute Europe
June 2024
Macron and Meloni appear poles apart – but what if they joined forces to save Europe?
Lorenzo Marsili
Centrists and pragmatic rightwing parties could at least compromise on the most urgent global threats
January 2024
War gave us the Red Cross. Now climate disaster means we need a Green Cross too
Lorenzo Marsili
As floods, fires and storms escalate, the world needs a body with the expertise and resources to protect people and the planete, says philosopher and activist Lorenzo Marsili
November 2023
European citizenship for people from Turkey, Ukraine and the UK? Why not?
Lorenzo Marsili
The EU could welcome individuals as well as countries – and create a new kind of citizenship for the modern world, says philosopher Lorenzo Marsili
June 2023
This is Europe
What will life after globalisation look like? The Venice Biennale may hold the answer
Lorenzo Marsili
Cultural colonialism has rightly been rejected – but China’s protest shows that authoritarians can also weaponise tradition, says philosopher Lorenzo Marsili
February 2023
62 people are dead off the coast of Italy. How many more will anti-migrant policies kill?
Lorenzo Marsili
This is Europe
Europe’s big players should copy Joe Biden’s green deal – not revert to old ways
Lorenzo Marsili
October 2022
This is Europe
There is now a way for the UK to rebuild its bridges with the EU – Labour should take the lead
Lorenzo Marsili
A new community could help to bring EU countries closer to the rest of Europe, says Lorenzo Marsili
September 2022
This is Europe
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni is no Mussolini – but she may be a Trump
Lorenzo Marsili
There’s nothing nostalgic about the far-right political space that the country’s new leader is trying to carve out in Europe, says philosopher Lorenzo Marsili
July 2022
This is Europe
Italy’s loss of Mario Draghi is a warning to progressives across Europe – and to the EU
Lorenzo Marsili
The prospect of the far right taking power underlines the failure of technocratic government – and the need for true alternatives, says Italian philosopher Lorenzo Marsili
February 2021
This is Europe
Italians want Mario Draghi to deliver 'normality' – and therein lies the danger
Lorenzo Marsili
The problems Europe faces require the overhaul of a bankrupt system, says philosopher Lorenzo Marsili
May 2020
This is Europe
Elites have failed us. It is time to create a European republic
Lorenzo Marsili and Ulrike Guérot
After the pandemic, EU citizens must build a democracy of equals, say the writers and activists Lorenzo Marsili and Ulrike Guérot
May 2018
Italy’s belligerent new coalition is bad news for the EU
Lorenzo Marsili
The EU is in desperate need of reform. But it’s unlikely to get help from Italy’s inward-looking new rulers, says writer and philosopher Lorenzo Marsili
March 2018
Two anti-elite parties have divided Italy between them. What now?
Lorenzo Marsili
With the League dominating the north and Five Star Movement the south, the political landscape is in a state of flux, says the writer and philosopher Lorenzo Marsili