The Euro and More Nonsense
This was the second article by Antonio Martino which I had translated into English. The article was a critique of an editorial which Angelo Panebianco , an important Italian editorialist and a professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna , published on the Corriere della Sera , the most widely read Italian newspaper. Angelo Panebianco Martino's critique is important because it points out the main flaw that unfortunately, I think, mars the thinking of many European and especially Italian intellectuals. That is, the contradictory idea that overarching super-national structures are needed to guarantee democracy and that the self-determination, the freedom and the well being of the European people depend on transnational organization which are nearly unaccountable to voters.. It is symptomatic of a certain attitude and distrust for democracy, which is found among too many Italian intellectuals. Since the end of the second world war, argues Paneb