Why Green parties win in Europe (and not in Italy). Find out in the video interview with Prof. Panarari. One year before the new elections for the European Parliament, will the ‘green wave’ of the 2019 round, which brought more than 70 European Green MEPs to Strasbourg, be renewed? With Prof. Massimiliano Panarari, sociologist and one of the leading experts on political scenarios, we look at the presence of ‘green’ political groupings in Europe, make a forecast of what will happen at the polls in June 2024, and analyse the national cases.
The ‘German case’, for example: a country where the ‘green’ political presence reached its highest level in the latest elections (20% in the 2019 European elections), securing a firm place in the government of the federal state with a role of absolute prominence (the foreign ministry went to Annalena Baerbock). Panarari examines the historical roots of ecological thought in German culture, which go back to the late nineteenth century and which intertwine with irrationalist currents as well, even influencing the National Socialist right.
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Then the cases of France and Belgium, where the green presence is very strong at administrative level and in the governance of the territory.
Finally, the ‘Italian case’: the constantly postponed and failed emergence of a ‘green’ political party, despite very lively activism by associations. Its possible causes. And hypothetical scenarios of what will happen at the European polls in June 2024. Will the rise of the Green parties continue, after the EU’s latest positions on regulations for the ecological transition (energy efficiency, electric mobility by 2035)?
