Is the dream of EU endangered? This book reviews classic and modern
values and virtues, and uses them in order to rethink Europe's present
politics and its future. The idea of the Republic was born with the
political ethics of ancient Greece. The current international crisis
obliges Europe to face the mirror of truth: What has become of the
European Idea and how fares the European Constitution?
It has been a long road from the Greek Politeia to the present lack of
values and financial monomania in Europe, who seems to have lost any
harmony between the spirit, the soul and the body of her Constitution:
the will and values of the people (material constitution), the text of
the Lisbon Treaty (formal constitution) and its current political
interpretation and action (real constitution), making Europe a two-tier
or three-tier club, far from the dream of the founding fathers.
Without republican values and virtues, and failing to uphold the
European social model, the European Union would devolve into moral,
social and democratic bankruptcy.