Fabrizio Tassinari
@fabriziotassinari.bsky.social
Executive Director EUI.eu/STG. Boards: EMIFund.eu and IAI.it. Latest book: “Pursuit of Governance” https://bit.ly/3V3pv2V. Columns: Il Riformista http://bit.ly/4j0cza2. Views my own.
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Wonderful gift from @lemonde.fr
for such thoughtful profile of our Florence School of Transnational Governance @eui-stg.bsky.social
for such thoughtful profile of our Florence School of Transnational Governance @eui-stg.bsky.social
50 years ago today died Pier Paolo Pasolini, hands down Italy’s greatest modern public intellectual. RIP.
November 2, 2025 at 6:06 AM
50 years ago today died Pier Paolo Pasolini, hands down Italy’s greatest modern public intellectual. RIP.
The latest fallout of the “negotiations” with Russia should show European leaders that their adulation of Trump’s foreign policy is not delivering.
My latest in Il Riformista this morning.
My latest in Il Riformista this morning.
October 22, 2025 at 5:36 AM
The latest fallout of the “negotiations” with Russia should show European leaders that their adulation of Trump’s foreign policy is not delivering.
My latest in Il Riformista this morning.
My latest in Il Riformista this morning.
An informal European council takes place tomorrow in Copenhagen, while Denmark is under an unusual amount of pressure from the west (Trump, Greenland) and from the east (drones). Why?
My column in Il riformista this morning.
My column in Il riformista this morning.
September 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM
An informal European council takes place tomorrow in Copenhagen, while Denmark is under an unusual amount of pressure from the west (Trump, Greenland) and from the east (drones). Why?
My column in Il riformista this morning.
My column in Il riformista this morning.
The great @nilsgilman.bsky.social of the equally great @berggruen.org published an insightful comment to the Le Monde profile, outlining the broader intellectual implications of what we are doing in Florence. Well worth a read:
open.substack.com/pub/nilsgilm...
open.substack.com/pub/nilsgilm...
September 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The great @nilsgilman.bsky.social of the equally great @berggruen.org published an insightful comment to the Le Monde profile, outlining the broader intellectual implications of what we are doing in Florence. Well worth a read:
open.substack.com/pub/nilsgilm...
open.substack.com/pub/nilsgilm...
Wonderful gift from @lemonde.fr
for such thoughtful profile of our Florence School of Transnational Governance @eui-stg.bsky.social
for such thoughtful profile of our Florence School of Transnational Governance @eui-stg.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Wonderful gift from @lemonde.fr
for such thoughtful profile of our Florence School of Transnational Governance @eui-stg.bsky.social
for such thoughtful profile of our Florence School of Transnational Governance @eui-stg.bsky.social
Always a special feeling to co-author with a philosopher. Over at @projectsyndicate.bsky.social I partner with the great @daniel-innerarity.bsky.social on digital technocracy and future-less autocracies.
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
September 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Always a special feeling to co-author with a philosopher. Over at @projectsyndicate.bsky.social I partner with the great @daniel-innerarity.bsky.social on digital technocracy and future-less autocracies.
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
Albania has appointed an AI bot as minister, showing how digital technocracy is hollowing out democracy. My editorial with the great @daniel-innerarity.bsky.social. For Il Riformista this morning.
September 16, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Albania has appointed an AI bot as minister, showing how digital technocracy is hollowing out democracy. My editorial with the great @daniel-innerarity.bsky.social. For Il Riformista this morning.
Sunset jog after the storm in Florence. Beat that.
September 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Sunset jog after the storm in Florence. Beat that.
Last weekend, the Wizard of the Kremlin premiered at the Venice film festival with young Putin played by Jude Law.
I loved the novel but I wonder why we are so captivated by brutal figures and I worry that works like the Wizard help cultivate their myth.
My column in Il Riformista
I loved the novel but I wonder why we are so captivated by brutal figures and I worry that works like the Wizard help cultivate their myth.
My column in Il Riformista
September 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Last weekend, the Wizard of the Kremlin premiered at the Venice film festival with young Putin played by Jude Law.
I loved the novel but I wonder why we are so captivated by brutal figures and I worry that works like the Wizard help cultivate their myth.
My column in Il Riformista
I loved the novel but I wonder why we are so captivated by brutal figures and I worry that works like the Wizard help cultivate their myth.
My column in Il Riformista
It was bound to happen sooner or later… my interview on Alexander Stubb’s worldview, diplomacy and on our friendship. In Il Riformista this morning.
www.ilriformista.it/la-sorpresa-...
www.ilriformista.it/la-sorpresa-...
August 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
It was bound to happen sooner or later… my interview on Alexander Stubb’s worldview, diplomacy and on our friendship. In Il Riformista this morning.
www.ilriformista.it/la-sorpresa-...
www.ilriformista.it/la-sorpresa-...
Reposted by Fabrizio Tassinari
Love this article...
Europe without a contrast is disparate, a family constantly at each other’s throats, but with Trump to reflect on, it realizes what bonds it and even in the aftermath of Putin’s best laid Brexit, even the UK speaks as one with its brothers and sisters.
Europe without a contrast is disparate, a family constantly at each other’s throats, but with Trump to reflect on, it realizes what bonds it and even in the aftermath of Putin’s best laid Brexit, even the UK speaks as one with its brothers and sisters.
Donald Trump is becoming the greatest unifier of Europe since the end of the cold war | Fabrizio Tassinari
Donald Trump is becoming the greatest unifier of Europe since the end of the cold war | Fabrizio Tassinari
The US president may be helping Putin to destroy the west, but his vanity is causing Europeans to speak with one voice in defence of Ukraine, says Fabrizio Tassinari of the European University Institute in Florence
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Love this article...
Europe without a contrast is disparate, a family constantly at each other’s throats, but with Trump to reflect on, it realizes what bonds it and even in the aftermath of Putin’s best laid Brexit, even the UK speaks as one with its brothers and sisters.
Europe without a contrast is disparate, a family constantly at each other’s throats, but with Trump to reflect on, it realizes what bonds it and even in the aftermath of Putin’s best laid Brexit, even the UK speaks as one with its brothers and sisters.
Irrespective of its outcome, the Washington summit showed that Europe still needs the “Other” to shape its identity. My (debut) take in The Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Donald Trump is becoming the greatest unifier of Europe since the end of the cold war | Fabrizio Tassinari
The US president may be helping Putin to destroy the west, but his vanity is causing Europeans to speak with one voice in defence of Ukraine, says Fabrizio Tassinari of the European University Institu...
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Irrespective of its outcome, the Washington summit showed that Europe still needs the “Other” to shape its identity. My (debut) take in The Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Fabrizio Tassinari
Donald Trump is becoming the greatest unifier of Europe since the end of the cold war | Fabrizio Tassinari
Donald Trump is becoming the greatest unifier of Europe since the end of the cold war | Fabrizio Tassinari
The US president may be helping Putin to destroy the west, but his vanity is causing Europeans to speak with one voice in defence of Ukraine, says Fabrizio Tassinari of the European University Institute in Florence
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Donald Trump is becoming the greatest unifier of Europe since the end of the cold war | Fabrizio Tassinari
Reposted by Fabrizio Tassinari
Good to see a piece about the EUI in The Economist. But this is a hatched job, with little resemblance to reality. Charlemagne is usually excellent, so this is odd. Can only think that @spignal.bsky.social talked to people who don't really know what's going on.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Europe’s Hogwarts has a new Dumbledore
Patrizia Nanz is trying to make the European University Institute relevant
www.economist.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Good to see a piece about the EUI in The Economist. But this is a hatched job, with little resemblance to reality. Charlemagne is usually excellent, so this is odd. Can only think that @spignal.bsky.social talked to people who don't really know what's going on.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Reposted by Fabrizio Tassinari
EU top court toughens migration rules on ‘safe countries’ https://on.ft.com/44XJvw7
EU top court toughens migration rules on ‘safe countries’
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni must justify why nations are deemed safe and allow legal challenges to that decision, says ECJ
on.ft.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
EU top court toughens migration rules on ‘safe countries’ https://on.ft.com/44XJvw7
Shopping when in Rome…
July 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Shopping when in Rome…
Italy just cancelled a concert by conductor and Putin ally Valery Gergiev. Yet last year alone, it issued over 150.000 visas to Russian tourists.
This morning for Il Riformista on the paradox of Italy’s attitudes toward Russia.
This morning for Il Riformista on the paradox of Italy’s attitudes toward Russia.
July 23, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Italy just cancelled a concert by conductor and Putin ally Valery Gergiev. Yet last year alone, it issued over 150.000 visas to Russian tourists.
This morning for Il Riformista on the paradox of Italy’s attitudes toward Russia.
This morning for Il Riformista on the paradox of Italy’s attitudes toward Russia.
I am neither a literary critic nor a fortune teller, but a couple of months ago I reviewed for my newspaper the novel that yesterday won Italy’s most important literary award, the Strega prize. Well worth reading (the novel).
www.ilriformista.it/andrea-bajan...
www.ilriformista.it/andrea-bajan...
Andrea Bajani in corsa per il Premio Strega con "L'anniversario": se ogni famiglia è felice a modo suo
La recensione de L’Anniversario, il breve racconto di Andrea Bajani candidato al Premio Strega. Ogni famiglia oggi è felice a modo suo
www.ilriformista.it
July 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I am neither a literary critic nor a fortune teller, but a couple of months ago I reviewed for my newspaper the novel that yesterday won Italy’s most important literary award, the Strega prize. Well worth reading (the novel).
www.ilriformista.it/andrea-bajan...
www.ilriformista.it/andrea-bajan...
Reposted by Fabrizio Tassinari
The Italian government decided to issue 500,000 permits for migrant workers for the period 2026–2028.
This is slightly higher than 450,000 in the current period and significantly higher than the annual ≈70,000 permits per year under previous governments.
www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6550...
This is slightly higher than 450,000 in the current period and significantly higher than the annual ≈70,000 permits per year under previous governments.
www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6550...
Italy: Government approves 500,000 work visas over next three years
The Italian government has approved the legal entry of an additional 500,000 migrant workers for the three-year period 2026-2028. An increase on the current period. Between 2023-2025, it authorized 4...
www.infomigrants.net
July 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The Italian government decided to issue 500,000 permits for migrant workers for the period 2026–2028.
This is slightly higher than 450,000 in the current period and significantly higher than the annual ≈70,000 permits per year under previous governments.
www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6550...
This is slightly higher than 450,000 in the current period and significantly higher than the annual ≈70,000 permits per year under previous governments.
www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6550...
Reposted by Fabrizio Tassinari
Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.
That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:
Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:
Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
June 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.
That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:
Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:
Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
“How inclusive, really, is this widely accepted fantasy of a country perpetually frozen in the 1950s, that foreigners and Italians alike consume with such gusto?”
Well said. This is an opportunity for those privileged with the right to vote to prove that they care as much about the future of Italy as many migrant-residents do.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Italy’s citizenship referendum could make the country fairer. It's a miracle it's happening at all | Jamie Mackay
For decades, the state has been tightening its rules so that fewer and fewer are eligible. This is a chance for Italians to change the narrative, writes Jamie Mackay
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 6:21 AM
“How inclusive, really, is this widely accepted fantasy of a country perpetually frozen in the 1950s, that foreigners and Italians alike consume with such gusto?”
Good news is no news, but the USIP website back online is definitely something to celebrate.
2 cheers for the rule of law and peace research. ✊
2 cheers for the rule of law and peace research. ✊
June 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Good news is no news, but the USIP website back online is definitely something to celebrate.
2 cheers for the rule of law and peace research. ✊
2 cheers for the rule of law and peace research. ✊
Shall henceforth be known as Pearl Harbor with a cause.
on.ft.com/3FIxDnM Ukraine stages audacious attack on airfields deep in Russian territory
on.ft.com/3FIxDnM Ukraine stages audacious attack on airfields deep in Russian territory
Ukraine stages audacious attack on airfields deep in Russian territory
Strikes come as Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he will send delegation to Turkey for peace talks this week
on.ft.com
June 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Shall henceforth be known as Pearl Harbor with a cause.
on.ft.com/3FIxDnM Ukraine stages audacious attack on airfields deep in Russian territory
on.ft.com/3FIxDnM Ukraine stages audacious attack on airfields deep in Russian territory
For Ukraine it was the month of the Leopard: everything changed in order for things to remain tragically the same.
My frontpage editorial on il riformista this morning
My frontpage editorial on il riformista this morning
May 27, 2025 at 6:19 AM
For Ukraine it was the month of the Leopard: everything changed in order for things to remain tragically the same.
My frontpage editorial on il riformista this morning
My frontpage editorial on il riformista this morning
Wished someone in Europe said enough with flooding the zone, rather than falling over each other to please him.
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on.ft.com/4jhKtr0
Trump plans to impose 50% tariff on EU imports from next month
US president accuses bloc of taking advantage of US on trade
on.ft.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Wished someone in Europe said enough with flooding the zone, rather than falling over each other to please him.
on.ft.com/4jhKtr0
on.ft.com/4jhKtr0