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Fabrizio Tassinari

@fabriziotassinari.bsky.social
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Founding Executive Director EUI.eu/STG. Boards: EMIFund.eu and IAI.it. Latest book: “Pursuit of Governance” bit.ly/3V3pv2V. Views my own.

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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences,” wrote absurdist writer Albert Camus. In my column this morning, I explain how despite multiple setbacks Europe hasn’t given up on it just yet.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For this 9/11 anniversary, I’ve re-read Oriana Fallaci’s controversial “The rage and the pride.” 25 years on, the rage has been appropriated by the far right and it’s winning elections. So has her proposed solution: national pride. My column in Il Riformista.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Russia's true ally in this war might not just be China or General Winter, but something more subtle and hard to defeat: the habit of living a miserable life. In Il Riformista this morning, I review Emmanuel Carrère’s latest, wonderful book, Kolkhoz.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Apropos Ceuta and the migration policies of socialist European governments, re-upping a longread I wrote a while ago for Noema Magazine on the case of Denmark’s hardline experiment. If this is a beacon of progressivism, be careful what you wish for. www.noemamag.com/inside-denma...
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Inside Denmark’s Hardline Immigration Experiment | NOEMA
Once a beacon of progressivism, the Scandinavian nation has normalized the worldview of the far right.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Watch this short interview with Zelensky to understand what this war is all about.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Morning run in Finland, where President Alex Stubb is still in great shape.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I’ve watched Mr Nobody Against Putin and realised that it turns Crime and Punishment on it head, showing what ordinary people are capable of in the pursuit of truth. My latest in Il Riformista is a review of this extraordinary, Oscar-winning documentary.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
An 80-something president from Sicily. A 20-something tennis champion from Alto Adige. Celebrating a victory together in Rome after 50 years. That’s a flex only Italy can pull off. 🇮🇹
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Just another day at the office, with 🇮🇹President Mattarella stopping by for a private visit.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Italian cultural establishment can be unbelievably tone deaf. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/ellswort...
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Rothko-Fra’ Angelico: the mashup that the world needed just launched in Florence, Italy.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Four years ago, the Venice Biennale featured drawings by Ukrainian children. In the one starting next month, the Russian (state) Pavillion will reopen. In Il Riformista this morning, I discuss this stunning reversal and the enduring Russia obsession of the Italian cultural establishment.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Always thought that Claude AI was very smart and now I know why. A notice from the district court of California kindly informed me that one of my books was pirated to train it. You’re welcome, @anthropic.com
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/02/2026
From @theathletic.com: In her fourth Olympics, Italy's Francesca Lollobrigida said that she was proud of herself for not giving up and for believing she could have a family and be an Olympic champion. She has won two gold medals at the 2026 Winter Olympics. nyti.ms/4ajyEiY
Francesca Lollobrigida smiles widely while hugging her son. Quote reads: "It's not that easy to combine being a skater and a mom." Attribution reads: Italian speedskater Francesca Lollobrigida, who took time off after the 2022 Beijing Games to have her son. She has won two gold medals at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Remigration is word of the year, says @stephenkb.bsky.social in the FT. If you want to see the shape of things to come, check out our @noemamag.com longread on Denmark, where remigration is now in the political mainstream. www.noemamag.com/inside-denma...
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Il compromesso raggiunto a Bruxelles per sostenere l’Ucraina senza toccare gli asset russi conferma che l’Europa è ancora quella che Ivan Krastev e Mark Leonard anni fa chiamarono la potenza erbivora. Mio editoriale su Il Riformista. www.ilriformista.it/leuropa-che-...
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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This is an excellent article by Helle Malmvig and @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social on the "Danish model" on immigration, with clear and detailed explanation of how being tough on newcomers has become a cornerstone of political consensus. www.noemamag.com/inside-denma...
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Inside Denmark’s Hardline Immigration Experiment | NOEMA
Once a beacon of progressivism, the Scandinavian nation has normalized the worldview of the far right.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Finishing a marathon in front of the Florence cathedral must be the true last remnant of humanism.
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 02/12/2025
“The Danish case is less a model than a warning about what happens to democratic politics when politicians from the center & center-left move to the right to regain or retain power, rather than deliberating, informing & modeling responsibility & respect.” —Helle Malmvig & Fabrizio Tassinari
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Inside Denmark’s Hardline Immigration Experiment | NOEMA
Once a beacon of progressivism, the Scandinavian nation has normalized the worldview of the far right.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
What happens to a progressive social democracy when it normalises the worldview of the far right? My latest longform journalism piece, co-authored with Helle Malmvig, in Noema magazine.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I knew that the FT comments section would provide the most plausible explanation to the 28 point plan for Ukraine
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
50 years ago today died Pier Paolo Pasolini, hands down Italy’s greatest modern public intellectual. RIP.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The latest fallout of the “negotiations” with Russia should show European leaders that their adulation of Trump’s foreign policy is not delivering. My latest in Il Riformista this morning.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
An informal European council takes place tomorrow in Copenhagen, while Denmark is under an unusual amount of pressure from the west (Trump, Greenland) and from the east (drones). Why? My column in Il riformista this morning.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The great @nilsgilman.bsky.social of the equally great @berggruen.org published an insightful comment to the Le Monde profile, outlining the broader intellectual implications of what we are doing in Florence. Well worth a read: open.substack.com/pub/nilsgilm...
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Planetarity and the Future of Diplomacy
The European University Institute's School of Transnational Governance is pioneering a new form of diplomatic training suitable for an age of planetary polycrisis
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Wonderful gift from @lemonde.fr for such thoughtful profile of our Florence School of Transnational Governance @eui-stg.bsky.social
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Always a special feeling to co-author with a philosopher. Over at @projectsyndicate.bsky.social I partner with the great @daniel-innerarity.bsky.social on digital technocracy and future-less autocracies. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Albania has appointed an AI bot as minister, showing how digital technocracy is hollowing out democracy. My editorial with the great @daniel-innerarity.bsky.social. For Il Riformista this morning.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Sunset jog after the storm in Florence. Beat that.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Last weekend, the Wizard of the Kremlin premiered at the Venice film festival with young Putin played by Jude Law. I loved the novel but I wonder why we are so captivated by brutal figures and I worry that works like the Wizard help cultivate their myth. My column in Il Riformista
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
It was bound to happen sooner or later… my interview on Alexander Stubb’s worldview, diplomacy and on our friendship. In Il Riformista this morning. www.ilriformista.it/la-sorpresa-...
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Love this article... Europe without a contrast is disparate, a family constantly at each other’s throats, but with Trump to reflect on, it realizes what bonds it and even in the aftermath of Putin’s best laid Brexit, even the UK speaks as one with its brothers and sisters.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Irrespective of its outcome, the Washington summit showed that Europe still needs the “Other” to shape its identity. My (debut) take in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Donald Trump is becoming the greatest unifier of Europe since the end of the cold war | Fabrizio Tassinari
The US president may be helping Putin to destroy the west, but his vanity is causing Europeans to speak with one voice in defence of Ukraine, says Fabrizio Tassinari of the European University Institu...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/08/2025
Donald Trump is becoming the greatest unifier of Europe since the end of the cold war | Fabrizio Tassinari
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Donald Trump is becoming the greatest unifier of Europe since the end of the cold war | Fabrizio Tassinari
The US president may be helping Putin to destroy the west, but his vanity is causing Europeans to speak with one voice in defence of Ukraine, says Fabrizio Tassinari of the European University Institute in Florence
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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Good to see a piece about the EUI in The Economist. But this is a hatched job, with little resemblance to reality. Charlemagne is usually excellent, so this is odd. Can only think that @spignal.bsky.social talked to people who don't really know what's going on. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
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Europe’s Hogwarts has a new Dumbledore
Patrizia Nanz is trying to make the European University Institute relevant
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/08/2025
EU top court toughens migration rules on ‘safe countries’ on.ft.com/44XJvw7
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EU top court toughens migration rules on ‘safe countries’
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni must justify why nations are deemed safe and allow legal challenges to that decision, says ECJ
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Shopping when in Rome…
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Italy just cancelled a concert by conductor and Putin ally Valery Gergiev. Yet last year alone, it issued over 150.000 visas to Russian tourists. This morning for Il Riformista on the paradox of Italy’s attitudes toward Russia.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I am neither a literary critic nor a fortune teller, but a couple of months ago I reviewed for my newspaper the novel that yesterday won Italy’s most important literary award, the Strega prize. Well worth reading (the novel). www.ilriformista.it/andrea-bajan...
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Andrea Bajani in corsa per il Premio Strega con "L'anniversario": se ogni famiglia è felice a modo suo
La recensione de L’Anniversario, il breve racconto di Andrea Bajani candidato al Premio Strega. Ogni famiglia oggi è felice a modo suo
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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The Italian government decided to issue 500,000 permits for migrant workers for the period 2026–2028. This is slightly higher than 450,000 in the current period and significantly higher than the annual ≈70,000 permits per year under previous governments. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6550...
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Italy: Government approves 500,000 work visas over next three years
The Italian government has approved the legal entry of an additional 500,000 migrant workers for the three-year period 2026-2028. An increase on the current period. Between 2023-2025, it authorized 4...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state. That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress: Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
An Onion front page with the headline: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice

Who will stand up for our democracy? This
question, fraught in even the most peaceful
times, has only grown more pressing as our
country approaches its 250th anniversary.
Each passing day brings growing assaults on
essential liberties like freedom of speech and due process.
Meanwhile, our delicately assembled legal system faces
a constant barrage of threats. Even as this issue reaches
publication, the U.S. military has been deployed against
peaceful protesters. We teeter on the brink of collapse into
an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls
upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing.
Members of Congress, now more than ever, our nation
desperately needs your cowardice.
Our republic is a birthright, an exceedingly rare treasure
passed down from generation to generation of Americans. It
was gained through hard years of bloody resistance and can
too easily be lost. Our Founding Fathers, in their abundant
wisdom, understood that all it would take was men and
women of little courage sitting in the corridors of power
and taking zero action as this precious inheritance was
stripped away—and that is where we have finally arrived.
Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time
for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket. Now is
not the time for listening to your idiotic constituents drone
on about what’s happening to their precious democracy.
This is the time for getting down on all fours and grov-
eling. Now is not the time to say, “Enough is enough,” and
have the tough conversations about resisting the ongoing
assaults on American liberty. This is the time to let the wave
of apathy and indifference roll over you as you think about
getting a really nice renovation to your house in Kalorama.
But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
“How inclusive, really, is this widely accepted fantasy of a country perpetually frozen in the 1950s, that foreigners and Italians alike consume with such gusto?”
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Good news is no news, but the USIP website back online is definitely something to celebrate. 2 cheers for the rule of law and peace research. ✊
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Shall henceforth be known as Pearl Harbor with a cause. on.ft.com/3FIxDnM Ukraine stages audacious attack on airfields deep in Russian territory
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Ukraine stages audacious attack on airfields deep in Russian territory
Strikes come as Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he will send delegation to Turkey for peace talks this week
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
For Ukraine it was the month of the Leopard: everything changed in order for things to remain tragically the same. My frontpage editorial on il riformista this morning
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Wished someone in Europe said enough with flooding the zone, rather than falling over each other to please him. on.ft.com/4jhKtr0
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Trump plans to impose 50% tariff on EU imports from next month
US president accuses bloc of taking advantage of US on trade
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
As someone who is worried about our capacity for deep thinking in times of screens and social media, and started writing about this recently, I just love this piece by @simonkuper.bsky.social on habits of great thinkers! This all applies to writing as well. Do read it. 👇 on.ft.com/43s9t8T
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How to be a great thinker
Seven habits of highly intelligent people
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The Gaza Health Ministry has released a new 1,000-page document with the names, ages and other statistical information of 52,959 Palestinians killed in Gaza. The first 100 pages (over 5,000 names), the age is listed at 5 years or younger. The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year)
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“Unfortunately, the policy since the beginning of the Trump administration has been to put pressure on the victim, Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia.” It must take a lot of guts for a US civil servant these days to resign and then publish this www.freep.com/story/opinio...
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I was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. I resigned because of Trump's foreign policy. | Opinion
I served in our country's foreign service for three decades. The Trump administration's Ukraine policy will make the U.S. less safe.
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Putin rejecting the direct talks that he had proposed is the most pathetic bluff attempt I have seen in a long time. united24media.com/latest-news/...
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Kremlin Rejects Zelenskyy’s Istanbul Peace Summit Proposal, Calls It “Political Theater”
Kremlin dismisses Zelenskyy's invite for direct talks with Putin in Istanbul, labeling it a political spectacle and preferring representatives for negotiations.
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