Il futuro di un artificio: l'Unione europea

The future of an Artifice: the European Union
Developing an optimistic stance with respect to the advancement of the European Union’s unification process, this essay puts forward the argument that each member state does not loose its identity for the very reason that identity is an out-of-date and, as such, useless element. Politics is based on the idea of artifice, not of nature, so that what is relevant is the goal politics wants to attain, not what nature suggests. Therefore, the attempt to write a Constitution is valuable in itself and not only for the democratic rules it proposes, but in particular as it forces the new community to cancel the idea of national interest, which is still linked to those of nation, identity and, as in the past, of enmity and war. We shall not be afraid of choosing for the European Union the strategy not to join the game of great (military) power politics, but to set itself as the example of a composite, peaceful new subject, lacking political myths.