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Orban beats Merkel and Macron: the pro-European dream is already dead
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Of Francesco Cancellato
While the Meseberg summit between France and Germany gave birth to downward compromises and about-faces, Hungary has included a ban on helping migrants in its Constitution. If this was the window of opportunity to save the Union, it is already double locked

The plastic representation of the endless crisis of Europeanism is given to us by two events of the last two days. In the right corner, Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister, which inserts into the Constitution the ban on welcoming migrants and a one-year prison sentence for anyone who helps them, in what the media defined as the anti-Soros law. In the left corner, in what should be the cultural opposition to Orban, Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, than from Meseberg Castle of their bilateral summit on the major reform of the eurozone, they come out with a joint declaration on the repatriations of asylum seekers to the countries of first landing, i.e. Italy and Greece.
If it were a Puzzle Week game we would say "spot the differences".If it was supposed to be an answer to Budapest, the Franco-German move is the perfect assist for Matteo Salvini to replicate the policies of his Hungarian master. And indeed, as per the script, he has already threatened – pardon: threatened by Prime Minister Conte -di desert Sunday's summit with France, Germany and Spain and to close the Italian borders, if France and Germany try to impose what they promised.

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On immigration, Italian populists are the future. Merkel is the past
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Of Niall Ferguson
On immigration, Italian populists are the future. Merkel is the past
Source: Paolo Becchi

One hundred and ten years ago the British author Israel Zangwill completed the play The Melting Pot. First performed in Washington in October 1908 — where it was enthusiastically applauded by President Theodore Roosevelt — it celebrates the United States as a gigantic melting pot that fuses together “Celts and Latins, Slavs and Teutons, Greeks and Syrians — blacks and yellows — Jews and Gentiles” to form a single people.

"Yes", declares the hero of the play (like Zangwill's father, a Jewish immigrant from Russia), “Est e Ovest, and North and South, the palm and the pine, the pole and the equator, the crescent and the cross... Here everyone will unite to build the Republic of Man and the Kingdom of God".

It is rather difficult to imagine a similar play written about the European Union at the beginning of the 21st century. Or rather, one could easily imagine a very different one. In it, the influx of migrants from all over the world would have exactly the opposite effect to that imagined by Zangwill. Far from leading to fusion, the European migration crisis is leading to fission. The play could be called The Meltdown Pot.

I believe more and more that the issue of migration will be seen by future historians as the fatal solvent of the European Union. In their considerations, Brexit will simply appear as the first symptom of the crisis. Their thesis will be that a massive Migration of peoples [migration of peoples, NdT] overwhelmed the project of European integration, revealing the weakness of the European Union as an institution and bringing voters back to national politics to find solutions. Read More

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Italia laboratorio politico che smuove l'Europa
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Image results for Merkel's endEurointelligence – The CDU/CSU is in open revolt against Merkel

“Pwe really think that the Greeks and Italians will continue in the established tradition of negotiating bad deals that are unfavorable to them?”
Of Saint Simon - June 16, 2018
There is a government crisis in Germany, due to the conflict between Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, president of the Bavarian Catholic Democratic Party CSU, and Chancellor Angela Merkel. The object of the conflict is immigration policy: Seehofer, in view of the October elections in Bavaria - the southern border of Germany on which the Mediterranean and Balkan routes converge - he would like the total rejection of refugees already registered in other EU countries at the borders; Merkel is seeking a softer approach so as not to exacerbate tensions in the European countries on the external border, and now it finds itself in the difficult position of depending on bilateral agreements with the Italians and Greeks for its political survival. He will probably try to offer large concessions in exchange, but in any case it would only postpone the showdown: Immigration continues to be the potential explosion of the shaky European balance. And Eurointelligence.
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Luigi Bisignani at IL TEMPO: Matteo's secret plan
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Image results for the man who whispered to the powerfulL’“man who whispers to the powerful” expresses his opinion in one of his usual Sunday letters to the editor of The weather, second newspaper of the capital. The reader will wonder why these sporadic spaces are given to those who are extremely distant from our positions in many respects. Well, after meeting him, the reason is easy to say: l’ “man who whispers to the powerful” can say things, sometimes, more interesting than others. No offense to those who don't whisper anything to anyone… On the contrary…(N.d.R.)
Of Luigi Bisignani
Dear director, Matteo Salvini, like a lion in the savannah, sniffs the air and prepares the next attack to conquer more and more territory. The first moves went better than expected and now that it has placed the immigration front at the center of the European debate, among other things, ridiculing Macron and taking Merkel's applause, can handle “from above” relations with his allies, Forza Italia and Brothers of Italy, who, in order not to be destroyed, will do everything not to turn him against each other. The Movement 5 position, weakened for a number of reasons, first of all the internal struggles between the Grillo-Di Battista-Fico group and the Di Maio-Bonafede-Casaleggio group that have been tearing it apart since they began to smell the scent of power, loses more and more consensus. With a savannah with such an arid landscape, the lion Salvini is secretly preparing his plan B: it will be taken, in one shot, those disappointed by Berlusconi, of Meloni but above all a part of that Grillino electorate who can no longer tolerate that summary justice and facade environmentalism that blocks investments and new infrastructures. Read More

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L'Euro che unisce i popoli europei
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Written and reported by Maurizio Blondet

THE EURO THAT UNITES EUROPEAN PEOPLES

(I copy and paste:) Prime Minister Conte will cancel his visit to Paris. Foreign Minister Moavero summons the French ambassador (Macron masses troops on the border?). In Germany, Interior Minister Seehofer congratulates Salvini, and splits with Merkel. AfD is about to catch up with the SPD, electorally it will be the second party. “The difference between a change…
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In the vortex of self-destruction of the West-World
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Incapable of leadership, always politically late.

Of Maurizio Blondet
“Russia must be at the G7, like it or not, we must have Russia at the negotiating table”, Trump vibrates in a certainly not improvised exit, and the anti-government TV lounges discover that Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, the one they portrayed as a foolish king, a leader of an unrealistic populist alliance, unprepared and stupid, can say at his first summit in Canada, not at all intimidated: “I agree with President Donald Trump, Russia should return to the G8. In everyone's interest".
It's not like there's any alliance here. What we are witnessing is the disintegration of the Western order, which involves unexpected recompositions, perhaps temporary. The English thinking powerhouses, in the turmoil of a Brexit that Merkel-Juncker want to be increasingly hostile and punitive, he took the opportunity to support the well-founded Italian discontent, explaining in various articles how Germany is the only one that has gained from the euro, and the one that has the most to lose by making the EU "an enemy rather than an ally" of Italy. And in other articles, they explained the Deutsche Bank crisis in depth. And an article from the Financial Times has quite a bit of power in the world of international finance. Read More

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Bannon: “Italy will be an earthquake for the EU, Merkel and Macron will fall like ninepins"
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Of Giovanni Coppola
Lately Steve Bannon he is spending a lot of his time in Italy. The former strategist of Donald Trump and leading animator of the “alternative rightIn fact, Americans look at our country with great interest. In a recent interview with the German newspaper The world, Bannon explained the reason for this interest: «Rome is currently the center of world politics. What is happening here is truly something special: until now, the world has never seen a truly populist government. Until now, precisely. And I absolutely don't want to miss this great event".
Steve Bannon, effectively, he has never hidden his sympathies for Matteo Salvini's League and Luigi Di Maio's M5S, that the former director of Breitbart see how «the saviors of Italy from yet another technical government». On the contrary, just like in an interview with New York Times, also to Welt Bannon confirms that he has maintained political relationships with the two populist leaders and their staff, Furthermore, that he advised them to form an alliance to form the government: «After the elections I met Salvini and I also had contact with Di Maio. I limited myself to recommending an agreement between the two parties, then the boys did everything. But I prefer not to say anything more about this.". Read More

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Stop Italy, I want to go down
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Of Roberto Pecchioli
Stop Italy, I want to go down
Source: Heretically
Stop Italy, I want to go down. One of the problems, getting older, it is no longer being able to understand what we see. The codes to decipher the new reality slip out of our hands, one feels like a stranger, inadequate and we end up withdrawing into ourselves. If "they" see it, we remain spectators of events that happen despite us and of which we are unable to identify the meaning or direction. How to watch a Bengali film in the original language. This is why so many of us want to come down.
Little Italy has become Italiaccia. For a couple of days we had three governments. The one in charge "for the handling of current affairs", as the bombastic and subtly humorous formula of the official protocol states, that of “the president” by Carlo Cottarelli, official of the International Monetary Fund, as well as the one unwelcome to all oligarchies, led by Professor Conte with the participation of the sinister Bolshevik, fascist and anti-European Paolo Savona. The Jesuit training of the head of state made it possible to resurrect a theological category that had fallen into oblivion, that of sins committed with thoughts, parole, works and omissions. The trial of the intentions of the diabolical octogenarian Savona, ready to exit the euro 48 net hours (?!) however, it allowed Italians to see more clearly.
The good Mattarella presented himself to the people to claim the stop in Savona in the name of the Markets, revealing – holy naivety – who is the guarantor and president. The European Commissioner with a German passport, HerrOettinger, he too was struck by an attack of sincerity, he growled that the Markets will take care of it (always with a capital letter!) to teach the Italians, small, neri, dirty and stinking to vote properly. Even Juncker, perhaps betrayed by the Belgian beer, he revealed opening words how annoyed the inhabitants of the country are, slackers, maintained, corrupt (very true, but in crowded company) and many other things. Read More

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The climate has changed, thanks to the Italian vote
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Of Maurizio Blondet
“The EU must understand that populism is the symptom of real political failure”
“It's Europe's lack of reform, not Italy, that will break up the eurozone”.
These are not two headlines from Slovenian sovereignist newspapers. The first, is leading an analysis of the powerful – and globalist-imperialist Royal Institute of International Affairs, the legendary "Chatham House”. The second, it is a title of the Financial Times, the theological guarantor of dogmatic liberalism, and is signed by one of its great signatures, Wolfgang Munchau, who among other things is a "Europeanist", having fought against Brexit.
How the climate has changed. The Italian vote has opened the floodgates to critical analyzes of the German-led European Union, never before expressed explicitly
Chataham House warns the oligarchies of Brussels and Berlin against the contemptuous interpretation they are giving of the Italian political situation: a comfortable read, self-acquittal, which - being wrong - can only lead to serious consequences. “The term populism is adopted not as a signal of necessary political reforms in Europe, but as a convenient excuse to dismiss society's demands as incompatible with liberal democracy.". Read More

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