Influential Voices Raised for ‘More Europe’
The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas and Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano, two of the greatest Europeanists of our times, are asking for “more Europe” so as to overcome the legitimacy crisis currently affecting the 20th Century’s most important political project. In controversy with Angela Merkel, in a discussion in Frankfurt Habermas claims the urgent need for a democratic vision of European integration, addressed at citizens and not only at states and at their economies. The need to overcome the dogma of national sovereignty is instead at the heart of Giorgio Napolitano’s letter to our magazine “Reset”, which is published here.