The word of the week is definitely at least for now MEGA, which we will then translate now into its meaning, because acronyms always have to be translated: because I think so in Italian it can be the first part of a slogan where everyone puts in their own even some not-so-pleasant epithets. So in short who is the inventor of this word? An absolute genius I would say the greatest creative storyteller in the world right now, Elon Musk, number one in communication technologies, from social to space, number one also in storytelling skills and, it seems, number one also in bank accounts, something we certainly envy him. So after MAGA (Make America Great Again ) there is MEGA, , Make Europe Great Again. Great according to Musk, of course immediately there was an uproar even in Italian newspapers, because those who don’t like Musk say he wants to make Europe with the far right. In fact he plays a little bit with Vox, with Spaniards, with Allianz for Deutschland, the German neo quasi-Nazis, a little bit with Orban, so with that part of Europe that opposes the political Europe that governs today. There are those who say instead that, after all, it is the political, cultural, economic model of trampism that is introduced in Europe, can actually give Europe that vitality that it does not have today, with this current political governance.
I would say to be serious, first of all institutionally that Europe already has a government, we’ve done it the hard way, Ursula von der Leyen is the head of the European Commission until 2029, when in America it’s going to be re-voted in 2028 and who knows what it’s going to be in the next election, because that’s a big democracy where alternation is a very, very serious thing. Having said that in short, the founding fathers thought about big Europe in a different way, to stay with the semantics always of the words of how Musk thinks about it. In Italy we use the English terms to say a very simple thing, cut costs, make the public machine of the state more efficient.
In Italy everyone has said it, no one has ever done it, so who knows if Musk will do it, at least in the United States, and really if he does we could import it to make our democracies bigger, certainly more functioning. The other word, and I’ll close here because it’s a word that will evolve during the week, is Duties, or rather in plural Duties. Trump, after threatening them, is enforcing them, he threatened to enforce them right after the European Union misbehaved.
Italy matters a lot here, our Premier matters a lot, always to stay in the language, in the masculine, as she wants. Only European Premier to be present at Trump’s official inauguration, in a privileged position, today at the European summit, important, where Meloni, plays a mediating role between von der Leyen and Trump, maybe even arranging a meeting. The fact of the matter is that the stock markets didn’t do well in Europe today, is that the one that held up the most was the Italian one, because precisely we are considered a privileged position in relations with the United States and, all in all, I would say it doesn’t hurt.
The article It’s time for MEGA comes from TheNewyorker.
