US and Europe increasingly distant: this is how the world is experiencing a real revolution

A climate, this, in which Vice-President JD Vance is the leading political figure. And in Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal, the grey eminence.

Europe itself, in any case, is shot through with nationalist impulses that produce political effects in every country. 'All this,' Fabbrini explained, 'with a basic contradiction. No European country can compete alone with the US or China. Those who want to defend individual national interests should, therefore, look to the European dimension as a natural instrument to achieve their own results. It is precisely the European Union, after all, that was born as an antidote to tragic and sterile nationalism and has saved us from wars and conflicts'.

"This at a time when the US," remarked Castagnoli, "sees Europeans as the ones who robbed the Americans, forgetting the US's overwhelming power in the interchange of digital services and that the EU is the main funder of the considerable US public debt. It is clear, therefore, that we are moving through a phase of transformation in which new powers, such as Turkey, are emerging and relationships that appeared to be consolidated over time are changing. Europe has, for example, the need to redefine relations with China, which is increasingly presenting itself as a reliable and respectful subject for other countries. And to position itself, precisely as Europe, as a point of reference for the global South in the construction of equal relations that, for example, we have been able to create between our countries'.

In the background is the war in Ukraine that is staining the European continent with blood and seems to have reached a crossroads between possible American disengagement and the need to avoid a Russian political-military triumph with a new European role.

'In Ukraine,' Fabbrini said, 'the future of Europe is at stake. But here the issue of European defence returns. With the need for better rules for decision-making and a decisive role for the leadership'.

'It is a matter of defending from threats,' Castagnoli explained, 'those countries that are closest to Russia and have memories of past Soviet rule. Certainly the Russian invasion of Ukraine has strengthened NATO with new entrants, but the future, given the American political evolution, really lies in a European defence'.