“Today, the liberal-democratic Democratic Party has nothing,” declared Carlo Calenda, secretary and MEP of Azione, during a press conference in Brussels held on the occasion of the presentation of his book *Defending Freedom: Europe’s Hour*. “Today, the liberal-democratic Democratic Party has nothing—above all, it lacks the gravitas and the awareness to tell it like it is. It continues to make utopian proclamations, but when it comes to building a defense—which means rearming—it says no; when you propose a nuclear energy plan, it says no. It always says no, but ‘no’ is not in the DNA of reformists.”