Andrea Bonanni
Andrea Bonanni is La Repubblica's correspondent in Brussels. He writes mainly about the European Union, which is also the focus of his blog on the Italian daily's website.
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Debt crisis
Final summer holiday for the euro?
5 August 201115La Repubblica Rome -
Austerity
A farewell to arms?
25 October 2010La Repubblica Rome -
European Parliament
See Strasbourg and die...
18 December 20091La Repubblica Rome -
European elections
Left tongue tied as right takes all
8 June 20092La Repubblica Rome
The slow response of European bureaucracy and Germany’s stubborn refusal to accept the sole remedy that can save the euro and Europe — collective management of public debt and an end to national sovereignty in budgetary policy — could effectively sink the euro.
The crisis is forcing European states to make unprecedented cuts in their defence budgets, leaving their armed forces short on men and means – and eventually eroding their technological edge. 
Overheard moaning about her stint in the European Parliament, Rachida Dati, ex-French justice minister, has unwittingly raised that nagging question once again: What exactly do MEPs do and how much do they get done? 
Whether in power or oppostion, conservative parties have benefited from the electorate’s anxiety about the recession. In decline throughout the EU, the left is going through “a language crisis”. It no longer knows how to talk to its traditional base, believes La Repubblica.