A spectre is roaming around Europe. It’s not the spectre of Communism that Marx talked about in his Manifesto of the Communist Party. Today, the spectre is something else: populism. Here is the great fear of the existing, invisible powers, (and they too are like spectres in a certain way), the powers that control what Ida Magli defines as the European Dictatorship: the fear that the next time there are elections, alongside the “traditional” parties, others will sneak in – movements that are in open and real opposition to this idea of Europe, to this economic-financial oligarchy that has been called the European Union.