Discredit
Of Andrea Zhok
Source: Appeal to the People
Sometimes, in the face of the dismay of pro-European friends at the 'institutional crudeness' of the 'populists' (not only in Italy), I wonder what they expected. For years and years we have been going forward in Europe with one (self-styled) 'technocratic vanguard', removed from any public debate and any democratic control, who used their connections among cosmopolitan elites to publicize the Great European Project in individual countries as a project of common wealth and brotherhood. “Trust me”. Then, at the first serious difficulty, we saw everyone racing to save their assets (for example the bailout of French and German banks at the expense of Greece), a unleashing of asymmetric rules evaluated arbitrarily (state aid, trade surpluses, infringement procedures, ecc.), a pursuit of blaming the neighbor in complete ignorance of the realities of others, an explosion of blackmail, conditionality, threats, and all combined with an impoverishment of large sections of the population. In summary: Read More