With Francesco Costa and Giorgio Gori
Why did American voters choose Donald Trump? Where did the Trump phenomenon originate, and what might be the consequences of his second term as U.S. president? Has the era of multilateralism come to an end? What can—and should—Europe do to remain competitive in a world where global powers assert their strength as the defining feature of foreign policy?
These and many other questions will be at the center of the evening’s conversation. Engaging with Francesco Costa will be Giorgio Gori, Member of the European Parliament and former Mayor of Bergamo, as well as one of the founding members of the Circolo Matteotti di Bergamo.
Born in Catania in 1984, Francesco Costa is a journalist and editor-in-chief of il Post. He has lived in Milan since 2010.
An expert on U.S. politics and an experienced field reporter, since 2015 he has curated Da Costa a Costa, which began as an independent newsletter and became one of Italy’s first and most popular news podcasts. Today, Da Costa a Costa is a journalistic project produced by il Post.
He has published four books with Mondadori: Questa è l’America (2020), Una storia americana (2021), California (2022), and Frontiera (2024). On television, he was the author and host of the DAZN miniseries The American Way and co-hosted CinAmerica with Giada Messetti on RaiTre.
From 2021 to 2025, Costa hosted Morning, il Post’s daily news podcast, which won four awards at the Italian Podcast Awards in 2021.
In 2022, The New Yorker described him as “a new-media phenomenon capable of modernizing the journalist’s role in Italian civil society.” The following year, Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung dedicated a feature article to the success of Morning.
Also in 2022, Costa received the Premiolino, one of Italy’s oldest and most prestigious journalism awards, later joining its jury in 2023.
The Circolo Matteotti – Reformist Culture Space was founded in Bergamo on September 19, 2025, and is affiliated with the Circolo Matteotti of Milan, established earlier that same year.
It serves as an open forum for ideas and initiatives aimed at fostering a reformist and pluralist culture—one that has often been squeezed between the populist movements that have dominated Italy in recent years.
In Bergamo, the Circolo has so far hosted two public events: the presentation of Claudio Martelli’s book Il merito, il bisogno e il grande tumulto, and a discussion with Nando Pagnoncelli and Paolo Natale on the causes of electoral abstention in Italy.