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Romano, Andrea
5 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Downing Street's uncertain future
Neither a coalition between the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats nor a Conservative minority government would last for long, the business paper Il Sole 24 Ore comments in view of the stalemate situation in the British general election: "At one of the most difficult moments in recent European history the UK has decided not to decide. ... Generally, lack of experience [on the part of the Liberal Democrats] and the ability to govern don't coincide, particularly if the Liberal Democrats' programme could be scribbled on the back of a paper napkin after a pleasant dinner among friends, as Prime Minister Brown claims. ... Even in the case of a minority government of the Conservatives, David Cameron's task would be limited to leading a transitional government with a double negative impact: He would waste the potential of a young, conservative leader and significantly reduce the UK's ability to react to the European crisis."
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Cameron in the lead with Blair's ideas
The latest polls point to a victory for the Conservatives in the UK's general election tomorrow. The business paper finds this is paradoxical because Conservative party leader David Cameron has picked up on a number of the Labour Party's achievements and ideas: "The [positive] aspects of the thirteen-year long Labour government are also clearly visible in the country, even on the eve of the highly probable defeat of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Because precisely now British politics seems to have taken a highly progressive course. The leader of the Conservatives [David Cameron] has words of high praise for the National Health Service - the Labour Party's sacrosanct success. Moreover he has announced a multi-ethnic policy, which represents an absolute novelty in the history of the Conservatives. And a Liberal Democrat [Nick Clegg] is boasting that he has inherited the best of the Labour tradition. The progressive transformation of the British political zeitgeist is perhaps New Labour's greatest achievement."
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Walter Veltroni, a political model?
"Walter Veltroni, the leader of the new left-wing party in Italy [PD, democratic party], is being given an enthusiastic welcome by both his friends and his foes", notes the editorialist Andrea Romano. Veltromania is at last a solution to the fatal crisis of Italian political parties. ... Unlike in Italy, parties created during the 20th century in the rest of the world or at least in Europe, have managed to function. In the UK and in France, Germany and Spain, big organisations, both progressive and conservative, have managed to impose their leadership and adopt innovative political programmes through traditional, though vital mechanisms: the confrontation of ideas, militant participation, personal selection and the evacuation of losers. These mechanisms were wiped out in Italy in the early 1990s and were never been revived."
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Europe lacks coherence facing Russia
"Putin is leaving Europe speechless", complains the journalist Andrea Romano, criticising the disunity displayed by Europeans regarding Russia. "The authoritarian style that Vladimir Putin has given to Russian power is once again showing up the great weakness of Europe. This time, however, we are not caught up in the usual lack of a common foreign policy and the habitual lamenting of a European headlong rush forwards. This is a far graver weakness because it comes from the failure of different EU policies that have been applied towards Russia these past ten years. ... If Europe doesn't manage to make itself heard in Russia, Putin's Russia will continue to play a perturbing role in our zone. We would do well to remember this the next time we ostentatiously celebrate the anniversary of the Union."
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Will the Berlin Declaration take the EU to 2009?
The editorialist Andrea Romano deplores certain passages of the Berlin declaration, notably the part that says, "The European model combines economic success with social solidarity". "These banalities don't even feature in manifestoes of well-to-do associations. They can only serve to once again gloat over having been born in this blessed part of the globe ... . Europe has chosen the comfort of rhetoric, running the risk that the European Union might, like the Amish, close in upon itself, blissfully contemplating its luck and benefiting from its security while the motor of the community shows more and more signs of fatigue. And yet the world all around us is in need of more leadership and commitment from Europe".
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