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As we know, June 4 to 7 are called as Italian citizens to vote for the renewal of our Members of Parliament.
Unfortunately in Italy and in Europe generally do not want to give real weight to the importance of European elections, the last election turnout in Italy was under 60% (in some countries and below 40%); this is wrong because people should realize that a stronger European Parliament and a Europe which is not now as a simple economic and trade union is the only way to cope with changes in world geopolitics. After the war the great European powers (primarily Britain and France but also Italy and Germany) since losing the first colonial empire and later the political and economic importance to the detriment of the United States initially and Russia in recent years by powers such as Japan, China and India. Not realizing that the world political axis has now moved outside of Europe there is a risk of "isolated" as the old nobility who misses the old days.
Besides the importance of voting for Europe is also important to vote, we are witnessing a phenomenon never seen in the political history that have a history with the birth of the only anti-democratic movements during the '20s and the years 30 but it must be said that they were decades of booming economic and social where suffrage had just been introduced and there was no basis in the political culture of the population.
political phenomena that we are living in Europe are different, as most emblematic we saw the birth and expansion of right-wing nationalist and populist: the PDL to the government here in Italy, the largest party in Switzerland, SVP, Law and Order in Poland, in Austria FPOE represent a populist right-wing that plays on fears of the population and in particular combat any possibility of integration into Europe. In addition to these cases we have parties (often conservative but also Social Democrats) who fought for years against the European Union and focus their efforts more towards these elections to the local elections, one out of all the British UKIP, as well as historically rooted political parties (such as our Northern League Sinn Fein or the Irish). Finally we see the birth (or rebirth) of parties located at the extremes of left and right, although fortunately phenomena seem quite marginal, but that being on anti-European positions clearly (The Right and the PRC are Communist example) .
On our side but they have always sought to make a political Europe, perhaps the only ones in the Italian political scene, six years ago with the experience La Margherita we laid the groundwork for the European Democratic Party strongly backed by Rutelli and French Bayrou, the first true example of a "party" and not merely on the European parliamentary groups as they exist now, and this battle should not be lost, and how young people must rely on our vote for the Democratic Party as a signal to those who are outraged by the increasing bias toward the extremes of left and right and we believe in the dream of a strong Europe before the changes of modern society.
Fabio Mazzari
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