"If the EU is dead, why are Trump and Putin attacking it?". The philosopher Zizek speaks

“PutinHe’s not left-wing.Putin is a fascist“. This is stated clearly bySlovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek, guest yesterday in Rome in the Protomoteca room of the Campidoglio (the same one where on 25 March 1957 theTreaties of Rome), con la Nobel Peace PrizeUkraineOleksandra Matviichukthe PD deputy Lia Quartapelle, the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, and the director ofBerggruen Institute EuropeLorenzo Marsili.

E. Matviichukwarns: “IfPutinwill be successful, it will encourage others to do the same. THE’Russian occupationit is suffering for human beings. Ukrainians do not want to be occupied by Russia.Putin is not afraid of NATO, Putin is afraid of freedom“.

Zizek on Trump and hatred for Europe

Zizekhe has it for all autocrats, among whom he also includes the president of the United States: “Trump, Putin, Le Pen e Orbanthey have one thing in common: everyonethey hate Europe. Trumpwith its chaotic politics, is accelerating theUS decline. How can you say he might hit Kharg ‘just for fun’? WithTrumplet’s see abarbarization of public life. The right has taken over the theme of ‘freedom of speech‘. But for the Trumpians thefreedom of speechit is the right to vulgarly offend those who don’t think like you.”

“If the EU is dead, why are they attacking it?”

SecondSlavoj Zizek“from the new right to the left, it has become fashionable to declare that theEuropashe’s dead, but if she were really dead, why would the idea of ​​aUnited EuropeIs it being attacked from all sides? In an interview on July 15, 2018,Trump citò l’European Unionas the first on the list of ‘enemies‘ of theUnited Statesin front ofRussia e China. Instead of dismissing this statement as irrational, we should ask ourselves a simple question: what is so disturbingTrump dell’UE? It is theEuropa dell’transnational unityl’Europawho is at least vaguely aware that, to address thechallenges of our timewe must go beyond the constraints ofNational states; l’Europawhich tries, even desperately, to remain faithful to the old Enlightenment motto ofsolidarity with the victims; l’Europaaware that today thehumanityit is only one, that we are all on the samespaceship Earth“.

The meeting “If you want peace, prepare Europe”

The meeting’If you want peace, prepare Europe‘ was promoted byBerggruen Institute. The project takes as its symbolic horizon the2057the year of the centenary ofTreaties of Rome. Thirty years from that date,Europa2057opens a space for reflection on what theEuropacan become and what he needs to start doing today to get there.

Lorenzo Marsili’s vision for Europe

“The events of these days ask us Europeans for aclear choice“he saidLorenzo Marsilidirector ofBerggruer Institute. “Staying divided betweensmall homelandsand therefore remain servants of others, or do somethingEuropa una great world powercapable of guaranteeingfreedom and peace“.

Oleksandra Matviichuk: collapse of the world order

“I don’t know what future historians will call this period. But theworld orderbased onCharter of the United Nations e sul international lawit collapsed,” he saidOleksandra Matviichuk, Nobel Peace Prize. “This system was created afterSecond World Warto protect people from war and mass violence. Today, however, he got stuck, limiting himself to repeating ritual gestures. We will never go back to the status quo: thechangehas become thenew normality. L’Europait is less and less a question of geography and more and more ofvalueswhich define themodern society. Defendfreedom and democracy è la sua responsibility. It is the determination to act that gives a society afuture“.