Gianni Pittella's articles

Today, the European Council will meet in an extraordinary session to discuss the mid-term revision of the EU’s long-term budget for 2021-2027

Who commands in Europe? In the pantheon of European builders, we find, not by chance, Kohl and Mitterrand, Colombo, Delors, Monnet, and Spinelli, and in more recent times, Merkel, Macron, and Draghi.

In the unresolved issues that will also be faced in 2024, the EU, says Pittella, needs an authoritative leader, like Mario Draghi.

Thanks to my former political advisor Francesco Ronchi, I have rediscovered the Account of the meeting with Jacques Delors

No good decision is ever made unanimously. (David Fincher).

What’s going to happen in the next months in Europe. The political analysis to understand facts and opinions in Europe.

But the victory is there, and it is the result of an electoral campaign based on stopping the invasion of migrants and asylum seekers, holding a referendum to leave the EU, fighting Islamism, and reducing the cost of living.

“Who does not expect the unexpected will not find the truth.” This quote by Heraclitus aptly describes the feeling of those looking at this quarter-century.

To this contradiction of our time, which is the real cause of the crisis of liberal democracies, Jan Zielonka dedicates his latest book “Myopic Democracy.”

On June 20, the European Commission requested member states to provide an extraordinary contribution to the Union’s multiannual financial framework totaling 65.8 billion euros

Giuliano Amato in his interview with Repubblica and Mario Draghi in his speech at the Miriam Pozen Prize reception developed analyses and considerations all very interesting, but there are two that have an indirect correlation with the upcoming arrangements of European institutions.

The upcoming European elections are likely to produce an outcome that, in my view, makes it unlikely for the majority of the Parliament to be held by a coalition of the EPP and ECR.