Fabrizio Tassinari is Head of Foreign Policy and EU Studies at the Danish Institute for International Studies. His next book is called North Star: How to Advance when the West Declines.
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Fabrizio Tassinari
Commentaries by Fabrizio Tassinari
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Mario Monti’s Nordic Dream
ROME – Mario Monti, Italy’s prime minister, is a self-styled German among Italian economists. As the European Union’s top competition offici…
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Hail to the Technocrats
COPENHAGEN – Is the European Union’s supposed “democratic deficit” now spreading to individual European countries in the wake of the soverei…
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Tunisia’s Evolutionary Revolution
TUNIS – Ten months after the collapse of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s authoritarian regime, Tunisia has produced a remarkable balancing act bet…
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The Unraveling of Europe’s Peace
COPENHAGEN – The European Commission recently unveiled long-awaited measures to bring neighboring countries in the Mediterranean and the for…
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Berlusconi’s Private Diplomacy
ROME – On the Web site of the Italian Foreign Ministry, Tunisia is praised for its “ideal features” and “political and social stability.” Af…
Mario Monti’s Nordic Dream
Nils-Göran Areskoug: A Counterpoint from Stockholm. The egalitarian model of the Nordics does not imply wealth equality but only relative income equality. The latter is a prerequisite for the well-functioning social pr…
Mario Monti’s Nordic Dream
Paolo Magrassi: People, including our excellent author here, are always impressed by headlines saying that «the combined wealth of the ten richest Italians equals that of three million of their poorest countrymen». H…