Sovranismo europeista o "inter-nazionalismo" European?
by Fabio Falchi

Source: Fabio Falchi
A SHORT REPLY TO FRANCO CARDINI
“For a pro-European sovereignism”* by Franco Cardini (one of the most lucid and capable Italian intellectuals) It is certainly an article worth reading, since, as well as highlighting the serious limits of a "sovereignism" which risks configuring itself as a form of "incapacitating" nationalism in the current multipolar phase**, offers the opportunity for critical reflection on the question of building an authentic European geopolitical pole. Indeed, they can also be done in Cardini – and they must – address several criticisms. Let's look at some of them briefly
1) Hinges (but he is not the only one) it seems not to take into account that civilization and culture are on a distinct level (although not unrelated) from the geopolitical one. For example, Greek civilization and culture were based on the poleis which continued to wage war even after the Peloponnesian War, until the poleis had to recognize the supremacy of the Macedonian kingdom.
In short, civilization and culture (european) they are not enough to give life to a geopolitical subject (European).
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