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Lorenzo Marsili

Lorenzo Marsili is a philosopher, activist, author and director of the Berggruen Institute Europe

June 2024

  • Giorgia Meloni and Emmanuel Macron in Rome, Italy, 26 September 2023

    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

  • Egyptian rescue workers in Derna, Libya, September 2023

    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 Commission president Ursula von der Leyen at a meeting on EU enlargement in Brussels, Belgium, 8 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

  • Visitor views the installation Ghebbi by AD-WO at the 2023 Venice Biennale

    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

  • Italian authorities at the scene of a shipwreck in which at least 62 people died at Steccato di Cutro, Calabria, on 26 February 2023.

    62 people are dead off the coast of Italy. How many more will anti-migrant policies kill?

    Lorenzo Marsili
  • Joe Biden

    This is Europe
    Europe’s big players should copy Joe Biden’s green deal – not revert to old ways

    Lorenzo Marsili

October 2022

  • Emmanuel Macron and Liz Truss

    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

  • ITALY-POLITICS<br>Leader of Italian far-right party "Fratelli d'Italia" (Brothers of Italy), Giorgia Meloni reacts as she holds a placard reading "Thank You Italy" after she delivered an address at her party's campaign headquarters overnight on September 26, 2022 in Rome, after the country voted in a legislative election. - Italian far-right leader Giorgia Meloni and her allies began on September 27 what is likely to be a weeks-long process of forming a new government, with crises looming on several fronts. (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP) (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)

    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

  • Mario Draghi waves to lawmakers at the end of his speech to the Chamber of Deputies

    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

  • Mario Draghi and an honour guard at the Chigi Palace in Rome

    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

  • A crowd on top of the Berlin wall in 1989

    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

  • Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte press conference, Quirinale Palace, Rome, Italy - 23 May 2018<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Camilla Morandi/REX/Shutterstock (9692081f) The new Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte attends a press conference Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte press conference, Quirinale Palace, Rome, Italy - 23 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

  • ‘The Five Star Movement, led by Luigi Di Maio [pictured], reached a whopping 32% and enshrined its position as Italy’s largest party by far.’

    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