Claudio Cerasa

In the 2022 general election, the centre-right had promised an ambitious reform: a presidential system. Over time, this idea was watered down, first into a semi-presidential system, then into a ‘premierato’ system, and finally into a reform that provides for the nomination of the prime ministerial candidate in the coalition’s manifesto.

Resilient democracies, growing economies, record-breaking trade and new frontiers in scientific research. At Il Foglio’s tenth Festival of Optimism, a guide to seeing the glass as half full. Because the future is built on facts, not on a culture of whingeing

It is more constructive to protest over rents and classrooms than to chant from the river to the sea. However, care must be taken not to pursue anti-capitalist battles that cast private individuals and their investments as part of the problem rather than part of the solution.

A one-sided look at the ‘Mamdani model’, at the activist and anti-capitalist left-wing movements that demonise Israel. The common-sense policies of the European left are ignored or rejected because they are ‘right-wing’. Is this to be the agenda of the broad coalition? 

The Prime Minister is engaging in a remote dialogue with the secretary of the PD; she is avoiding attacking her, avoiding undermining her authority, and doing everything she can to try to sideline her as leader of the opposition. There is a logic to all this

From ‘no to war’ (and Putin?) to ‘sacrosanct rights’ (and Iranian women?). How to refute the ‘indignados’ who are right at home not only in TV armchairs but also amidst the many shades of charlatanism offered up daily by moralists who sell their views by the kilo. Television and alarm bells