With Lucio Di Gaetano, financial consultant and former employee of Bankitalia, on this blog we have already contributed to the bargain basement sell-off of, a scandalous affair that should concern everyone, not only the M5S’s voters. In this latest get-together, and in the same spirit, we will be talking about the European Central Bank. How on earth is it possible that the European Union’s economic policy is decided in a technical environment that is not subject to democratic control? Are public sovereignty and the supremacy of politics really just frills that we can do without? We think not, given the fact that every economic choice is somehow political and the current social tragedy is too serious for us just to leave it to a bunch of technicians.