the newsletter to understand why it is a model to go back to – Corriere.it

Europe counts and in many areas it sets standards to which not only executives but entire sections of American society look with interest. If it is true that at a technological level the Old Continent is still far behind, in terms of the defense of digital rights and privacy, for example, European regulation has become the global gold standard. Since Lina Khan, the president of the Federal Trade Commission, has targeted Big Tech, the front of those who ask to review the antitrust rules and look at EU legislation as a model is growing.

There is a paradox: on the one hand, awareness of this new European centrality is growing in the USA, on the other, in Europe, managers and citizens seem to be unaware of it, observes James Fontanella-Khan, journalist of the financial timess that starting from Tuesday 10 January 2023 in the new Europe Matters newsletter of Corriere della Sera(to sign up click here) every Tuesday at 7, together with Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, professor of political science at the City University of New York and at the European Institute of Columbia University, I will tell about the innovations, the decisions, but also the small European stories that inspire across the Atlantic, with a particular look at Italy and its role within the EU. The idea is not to glorify the Old Continent – he assures – but to highlight the strengths and influence of the European Union in the global context.

Thoughts turn to rights, such as abortion, which in the US is being abolished in various states, while the European Parliament is considering including it in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. But not only. In terms of climate, the 27 EU countries have long since set themselves much more ambitious goals than those of the United States and now, with the introduction, for the first time in the world, of a sort of environmental tariff, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism they could go to school again. Even in politics, the system of checks and balances of the European institutions is viewed with interest in America, by those who believe that, due to an extreme polarization of political positions, presidentialism is increasingly in trouble and needs new balances.