The meeting is introduced by Luisa Chiodi, scientific director of the Balkans and Caucasus Observatory.
These are spontaneous movements, but certainly not unexpected. They do not have flags, except for the national one. They do not embrace ideologies and do not follow political leaders. They have managed to overthrow dictators like Ben Ali and Mubarak and to put others like Assad in crisis, who still resist, causing real bloodbaths. Their protagonists are young people, not just boys but also girls, who have taken to the streets to demand work, but above all justice, freedom, and democracy. And by democracy, equality between men and women is also meant. This journey can only be long and fraught with obstacles, but it has certainly ensured that nothing remains the same, even for Europe. And unlike what has happened so far, cultural contagion is now coming from the South.
