The Oscar of fear goes to Romano Prodi. The Professor, twice prime minister, interviewed by Repubblica comments with terror on the success of Alternative für Deutschland in the elections in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. “It is a fact of colossal dimensions. Other definitions would not seem adequate to the seriousness of the situation. For the first time since the end of the war, a party of subversive right that openly evokes Nazism wins. And it wins with 45% of the votes. The second party is 25% behind. Do we need anything else to be alarmed?”
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The question, of course, is rhetorical since Prodi’s pessimism is leopardian, “cosmic”: “The fact that the outcome of the vote actually does not even surprise – he adds – makes the issue even more serious. And we are not surprised because the vote follows a movement of authoritarianism that is crossing the world, from Trump to Putin, and that is slowly eroding European democracies. And a weaker Europe, these days, is not disliked either in the east or in the west.” In short, we are near the great encirclement.
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Moreover, admits the Professor, “being Europe unable to decide, it has lost all attractiveness. So why vote to defend it, if it serves no purpose? The outcome of the referendum in Iceland was also a signal going in this direction. And that too was underestimated.”
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“Europe – Prodi continues – does not react because the countries that are part of it have no intention of reacting, make no mistake. Everyone knows that the veto right should be overcome, and when Orbán lost the elections the opportunity to do so was at hand. But no one, Italy first, wanted to take an initiative in this sense. They prefer a powerless Europe. Honestly, I was surprised by Forza Italia. Which in theory is really a pro-European party, or at least it has always defined itself as such and sometimes also distinguished itself. It seems to me it is living a truly dramatic contradiction within itself.”
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