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07/02/2021

From Eurosceptics to Europeanists: The pirouettes of politicians and public opinion

Livio Gigliuto, Vice President at Istituto PIepoli, guest, together with Giampiero Gramaglia, Journalist at Il Fatto Quotidiano, of Emanuela Bonchino during RaiNews24 evening press review to analyze Draghi's effect and the caravanserai that surrounds it.

Guests of Emanuela Bonchino during RaiNews24 evening press review, Giampiero Gramaglia, Journalist at Il Fatto Quotidiano and Scientific Advisor at IAI – International Affairs Institute – and Livio Gigliuto, sociologist, Vice-President at Istituto Piepoli, and Director of the National Observatory on digital communication, who – “polls in hand – shows how Italians – despite the result in the 2018 elections, in which they massively preferred those who did not have a curriculum to those who had one, the incompetent to the competent, choosing populists and sovereigns more than rigorous and pro-Europeans – now invoke competence and preparation. And they have also rediscovered Europe: who knows, maybe it is the first love that is never forgotten; or, perhaps, it’s the scent of money “..

Dragons Effect? Or it is Draghi the effect of the sudden evolution of public opinion? “Asks Giampiero Gramaglia, who continues:” It’s the story of the chicken and the egg. The fact is that, having experienced the incompetence, we have returned – apparently – to the cult of competence (until the next round). But not only that: we have become once again Europeans, as we had been for a long time before transforming ourselves, following very different magic pipers, like Grillo or Salvini, into Eurosceptics and sovereignists. That’s it. They, the pipers, have changed words and music; and we, diligent citizens of Hamelin, are following them ”.

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