Francesco Grillo

Francesco Grillo is president and co-founder of <a href=http://www.vision-forum.org/ target=_blank>Vision</a>, where he has managed a number of projects on information society and international govern

Covid19: a checkmate of the West?

This is a radical challenge. The West is certainly going to lose if its politicians, academics and civil servants continue to take for granted a superiority in tatters.

By Francesco Grillo

/ 28 Apr 2020

We need to look in a different direction to solve the current crisis of liberalism

Can liberalism be saved from obsolescence and does this really matter? Did the recent European elections spare us the irresistible fall of the establishment?

By Francesco Grillo

/ 20 Jun 2019

We need to look in a different direction to solve the current crisis of liberalism

How can Europe survive the extinction of its ruling élite?

The problem of Europe is that it is like those Catholic marriages with no divorce clause which had the tendency to become a cage of mutual hypocrisy – cheating, if not violent.

By Francesco Grillo and Andrea Iannone

/ 7 Nov 2018

UBI: balancing progress and protection

Why we need to be able to think in terms of a brave new world.

By Francesco Grillo and Annalisa Cappellini

/ 25 Apr 2018

Italy's election, M5S and the case for Hegelian transformation

The first option for Italians is believing they can draw their bridge up and return to some mythological past which preceded the globalization game that the country has lost out in.

By Francesco Grillo

/ 1 Mar 2018