You are cordially invited to the following public lecture within the LSE European Institute Perspectives on Europe Series:
Italy Today: The Sick Man of Europe?
Monday 8 March 2010, 18:30 – 20:00
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building,
London School of Economics and Political Science
Chair:
Marco Simoni (European Institute)
Speakers:
* Giuseppe A. Veltri (Editor of Italy Today, European Commission)
* Andrea Mammone (Editor of Italy Today, Kingston University)
* Simona Milio (ESOC Lab, London School of Economics)
Discussants:
* John Peet (The Economist)
* Fabio Cavalera (Corriere della Sera), TBC
* John Lloyd (Financial Times), TBC
discussion coincides with the launch of Italy Today by Routledge. A light reception will follow the event.
Endorsements to the book:
“Written by well known specialists and young researchers from Italy or outside, this book is dedicated to Contemporary Italy, considered as the sick man of Europe. All the aspects of its decline are studied in an interdisciplinary approach.” Marc Lazar, Sciences Po, Paris.
“Faced with the attention-seeking antics of Silvio Berlusconi and his political allies, increasingly the temptation is not to treat Italy seriously. The great achievement of the contributors to this excellent volume is to reach behind the façade of political posturing to show that Italy does matter, because the failure of Italy’s political system to come up with solutions to the chronic problems facing the country today poses questions that are relevant to all advanced democracies. Italy today, but where next?” John Davis, University of ConnecticutiMille.org – Direttore Raoul Minetti
