There are those who had long foreseen what is happening today on the southern shores of the Mediterranean, the Bosnian writer Predrag Matvejevic, author of the Mediterranean. A new breviary and the recent Our Bread, both published by Garzanti. We met him for the readers of ilfattoquotidiano. com. "It 's been a failure - it hopes - even dozens of meetings with politicians and heads of state, then lectures, debates, in vain, I tried to warn, to understand how Europe' s own birth without his 'crib' Mediterranean.
It was not fair, nor far-sighted that the fate of that sea were taken only in the heart of Europe, excluding those who were its protagonists. This could only create frustration and resentment. Nobody could understand what is actually happening on the southern shore. The West navigate up false certainties.
Against countries that today are on fire, there was only a post-colonial politics. It is credited with what I call 'democrature', ie dictatorships masked. Today Europe pays its ambiguities and short-sighted policy. " What can happen now and what the new balance? It 'hard to say, but the change will be profound and rapid and is destined to change the scenarios.
We have seen in North Africa, where regimes are consolidated without the emotional collapse that would create a real alternative. Except, perhaps, the strong thrust of Islam. Which represents a danger. Because those countries after the release of colonialism have not had time to develop secular traditions that serve to true democracy to flourish.
Religion still affects them, too. Yet young people are taking to the streets, they say, in the wake of new technologies, internet ... Yes, they have a new form of technological culture, perhaps more modern, but this is not sufficient to establish the foundations of a democratic country.
At times it seems a protest without roots, no one knows where it can bring, it is certain that we are witnessing a crucial moment in our history as the fall of the Berlin Wall. Is there any similarity between the drop in post-Communist regimes, and what happens now? I would say more differences than similarities, for a start in this crisis there are personalities, there is a Gorbachev or a Walesa, great people as bearers of a concrete proposal for a long breath.
Today, many countries seem to close in policies with shortness of breath, area. Look at Italy, which is celebrating 150 years since its unification and evil lives right now, shaken by some political forces like the Northern League, daughters of a small independent provincial, a kind of federalism with which - as history has shown - a modern state is malfunctioning.
I heard on the radio that some supporters of the League even wanted to shoot the refugees ... There are those who fear an invasion. We must separate fact from demagoguery. And understand that this is a European problem and not only Italian, is to your country to assert its position Mediterranean.
And then figure out how this thrust coming from the south can be transformed into new life, we look to the numbers of those arriving, one thousand, two thousand, but not what that migrants carry in their suitcases, and that is a great energy, often free by religious bias. But this is difficult to understand in a country that is a real Mediterranean policy has never had.
In what sense? Few governments, perhaps the last to Andreotti and Craxi, had a vision of the Mediterranean, with Prodi seemed to be a recovery, but without the punch. I myself have participated in a committee of wise men in Brussels for the Mediterranean, but we have realized that there was no real interest.
Now the southern shore calls us "the bread" ... so began the revolt in Tunisia. In his latest book, our bread, she reconstructs the story. Bread, bread ... it was the slogan of all claims the most energetic and militant, and not only in the Mediterranean. And, perhaps, always will. But given that we live in these days is just a spark, there are also new ferment in Eastern Europe, Russia, up to China.
The world is about to change, maybe preparing a new era with the unknowns that the radical changes carry with them. The photo of Michele D'Ottavio, Predrag Matvejevic with Mikhail Gorbachev 
It was not fair, nor far-sighted that the fate of that sea were taken only in the heart of Europe, excluding those who were its protagonists. This could only create frustration and resentment. Nobody could understand what is actually happening on the southern shore. The West navigate up false certainties.
Against countries that today are on fire, there was only a post-colonial politics. It is credited with what I call 'democrature', ie dictatorships masked. Today Europe pays its ambiguities and short-sighted policy. " What can happen now and what the new balance? It 'hard to say, but the change will be profound and rapid and is destined to change the scenarios.
We have seen in North Africa, where regimes are consolidated without the emotional collapse that would create a real alternative. Except, perhaps, the strong thrust of Islam. Which represents a danger. Because those countries after the release of colonialism have not had time to develop secular traditions that serve to true democracy to flourish.
Religion still affects them, too. Yet young people are taking to the streets, they say, in the wake of new technologies, internet ... Yes, they have a new form of technological culture, perhaps more modern, but this is not sufficient to establish the foundations of a democratic country.
At times it seems a protest without roots, no one knows where it can bring, it is certain that we are witnessing a crucial moment in our history as the fall of the Berlin Wall. Is there any similarity between the drop in post-Communist regimes, and what happens now? I would say more differences than similarities, for a start in this crisis there are personalities, there is a Gorbachev or a Walesa, great people as bearers of a concrete proposal for a long breath.
Today, many countries seem to close in policies with shortness of breath, area. Look at Italy, which is celebrating 150 years since its unification and evil lives right now, shaken by some political forces like the Northern League, daughters of a small independent provincial, a kind of federalism with which - as history has shown - a modern state is malfunctioning.
I heard on the radio that some supporters of the League even wanted to shoot the refugees ... There are those who fear an invasion. We must separate fact from demagoguery. And understand that this is a European problem and not only Italian, is to your country to assert its position Mediterranean.
And then figure out how this thrust coming from the south can be transformed into new life, we look to the numbers of those arriving, one thousand, two thousand, but not what that migrants carry in their suitcases, and that is a great energy, often free by religious bias. But this is difficult to understand in a country that is a real Mediterranean policy has never had.
In what sense? Few governments, perhaps the last to Andreotti and Craxi, had a vision of the Mediterranean, with Prodi seemed to be a recovery, but without the punch. I myself have participated in a committee of wise men in Brussels for the Mediterranean, but we have realized that there was no real interest.
Now the southern shore calls us "the bread" ... so began the revolt in Tunisia. In his latest book, our bread, she reconstructs the story. Bread, bread ... it was the slogan of all claims the most energetic and militant, and not only in the Mediterranean. And, perhaps, always will. But given that we live in these days is just a spark, there are also new ferment in Eastern Europe, Russia, up to China.
The world is about to change, maybe preparing a new era with the unknowns that the radical changes carry with them. The photo of Michele D'Ottavio, Predrag Matvejevic with Mikhail Gorbachev
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