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The crisis of democracy in Europe and the inability of the political parties and élites to adequately meet the challenges of globalisation exposes the increasingly fragmented middle classes to the temptations of Euroscepticism, and, in some cases, xenophobia. This appears to be a portrait of contemporary reality, but the current crisis has deep roots. The Spanish thinker José Ortega y Gasset described the pathologies of the mass man and of the nascent democratic system as far back as the beginning of the twentieth century, in a significant text entitled Una democracia morbosa, which appears to

Europe finds itself in a dramatic position: it must choose innovation, or disintegration, with all the unpredictable consequences this may entail. In this book, the authors discuss with leading experts on European issues and institutions, as well as on democracy put to the test currently by rampant populism in almost all the EU countries