Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel 'The Leopard', published posthumously, portrays the decadence of the Sicilian aristocracy at the time of the unification of the various states on the Italian peninsula into a single country, as embodied in the character of Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina.
Inside the European elite's bid to 'subvert democracy' and hold back the populist tide threatening to overwhelm its decaying bureaucratic order
Thus, changes are paradoxically implemented on the condition that everything remains exactly as it is, nothing must change.It is this mentality of the Leopard that pervades the European elites as they strive to hold on to power in the forthcoming elections for the European Parliament, to take place from June 6 to 9, in the face of increasing popularity of right-wing parties.
According to the latest polls, the latter two groups alone could account for more than 20 per cent of MEPs, and win almost as many seats as the EPP alone. This is the same VDL who, prior to the election of Giorgia Meloni’s coalition in Italy in September 2022, warned, as Italians went to the polls, that Brussels would “punish an Italian government that violates the EU’s social policy consensus”.
“As a mother of seven, I want my children’s children to grow up in a safe, prosperous Europe,” reads the lead statement Like Don Fabrizio, it seems VDL – and by extension the European elite – will do anything in order to preserve their power and privileges, thus subverting democracy.She is presently implicated in a scandal over her private text message exchange with Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla in April 2021 for the procurement of 1.1 billion doses of the Covid vaccine.
This is, as Thomas Fazi of UnHerd explained, a system in which the formal democratic process itself is systematically subverted through financial and monetary blackmail, including against countries that are not part of the eurozone, as it recently did with Hungary after President Orbán wanted to veto the EU’s Ukraine support package, threatening to sabotage its economy.Similarly to the era described in the 'Leopard', decadence has set in across Europe.
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