With the new government, the Germans will be forced to listen to the Italian proposals
Of Marcello Minenna
What is happening in Italy represents the stone in the pond of German and French intentions, the stimulus to reflection for a European apparatus that so far has shown itself to be almost indifferent to the economic and social implications of too rigid fiscal discipline.
The first exam will be, like at school, in June on the occasion of the meetings of the Eurogroup and the European Council on the review of the Monetary Union.
But unfortunately it is difficult to concentrate on this, given the heart-pounding developments in the Italian political scenario; developments that are fundamentally derived from the expansive approach of the Lega e economic policy program 5 position. Read More
Vulnerable and “commissioned” Italy. And the disaster has just begun
Of Alberto Negri
Source: Alberto Negri
Expelled from the Quirinale gate, Italian populism could transform into an unprecedented wave of nationalism in a country that has always demonstrated little attachment to the flag and a much greater attachment to the wallet, which today languishes. Mattarella leads Paolo Savona, an elderly and esteemed gentleman who allowed himself to be exploited by the crafty Matteo Salvini, it was a masterstroke to repel, at least for the moment, the Cinquestelle from the control room, but it could turn into a boomerang.
Go back to the fall of Gaddafi to understand
Italy remains a vulnerable country inside and above all outside, on markets and in foreign policy. Also vulnerable to the theories of an international conspiracy by the European and internal establishment to defend the euro, sometimes cited inappropriately as the father of all Italian troubles. But we must always find a culprit to justify our ignorance. There is no conspiracy, for the moment, but the evidence of the facts. Italy has been a fragile country since 2011 France, Great Britain and the United States decided to eliminate Colonel Gaddafi, its most important ally in the Mediterranean than just six months earlier, il 30 August 2010, had received with great fanfare in Rome, signing contracts worth tens of billions and relying on the Raìs for the control of migratory flows. Not only did Italy not defend it but it bombed it, giving in to the blackmail of its NATO allies who threatened to attack Eni's terminals.
It was Italy's biggest defeat since the Second World War. The consequences were devastating: colossal monetary losses and a wave of migration that, year after year, it destabilized the political framework of the country. From that 2011 Italy's allies and competitors have undermined our interests, leaving us alone and adrift. While yesterday in Rome the most lacerating political crisis of recent years was taking place, Emmanuel Macron has called an international conference on Libya for tomorrow in Paris which "will take place under the auspices of the United Nations" to set the date of the elections. Read More
THE EU OR OTHER FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS CANNOT DECIDE WHICH MINISTERS ITALY SHOULD HAVE
Written and reported by Antonio Socci, “The Stranger”
The film that is airing these days is incredible. Germany complains about the intolerable interference of Italian voters (via Lega and M5S) in the formation of the new government in Rome which - apparently - they provide from Berlin, like you do with a colony.
In fact, from Berlin they make it known that they do not tolerate ministers they do not like. It's all out in the open, just read the newspapers.
She is scandalized “"Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" for the insubordination of the Italians towards the Germans: “Italy wants an enemy of Germany in government”.
Where "enemy of Germany" is simply meant an economist who wants to defend the Italian national interest and is critical of German arrogance. We have to stay, by subjects, under the Teutonic boot and kiss it too?
The "Sueddeustche Zeitung" explicitly exalts Mattarella who - according to them - is under siege from Italian voters: “never before has a President of the Republic been put under so much pressure as in recent days by the two parties” who “persist on the name of the radical Eurocritic Paolo Savona”.
According to them, it is not the EU, especially the Germans, to exert intolerable pressure on an Italian Head of State, but the parties most voted by Italians would be the ones who would press unduly who simply govern according to the Constitution. As if Mattarella was at the Quirinale to represent the EU (i.e. Germany).
But it is possible that Mattarella, instead of recognizing the will of the Italian voters, will become the spokesperson for the diktats coming from Berlin?
Hopefully this isn't the case. But you understand well what is happening when you read the Quirinalist of the “Press” Ugo Magri – very Mattarellian – who writes: “it is certain that Mattarella has raised the case of new book from Savona which puts to rest all the anti-Germanic feelings of its author, and accuses the Germans of hegemonic aims comparable to Hitler's".
And we need to think about when Matteo Salvini dice: “It's madness, it is pure madness to blow everything up because Merkel doesn't like Paolo Savona, because he dared to criticize Germany in one of his books".
With the full and significant support of Giorgia Meloni, in this battle for national independence, Salvini he rightly thundered: “German newspapers and politicians insult: Italian beggars, slackers, tax evaders, freeloaders and ungrateful. And we should choose an Economy Minister who suits them? No, Thank you! Italians first".
Salvini reasons with common sense and with the dignity that every political leader should have, as if we were in a country where the Italian people are still sovereign, according to the article 1 of the Constitution.
But evidently in recent years in Italy the pillar of the Constitution has been silently forgotten - defining it contemptuously sovereignism – and allowed foreigners to dominate.
So now Germany feels entitled give us orders. And the technocracy of the EU, in recent days, felt entitled to send its preventive warnings to Italy.
Without the highest offices of the State having felt obliged to defend the dignity and independence of Italy which among other things is one of the major industrial powers in the world.
No European country has seen such a thing foreign interference (not to mention the insolences that the German press throws at us).
On the contrary, Mattarella, instead of rising up against these intolerable interferences by the EU and Germany, seems to become their spokesperson and - turning the tables - accuses foreign powers and the EU of imposing "diktats"., but the League who simply - based on the vote received from the Italians - indicated Paolo Savona for the Treasury Ministry.
It seems like the situation described by Manzoni in the “Betrothed”. After the overbearing diktat of Don Rodrigo - who had ordered through two bravoes: “this wedding shouldn't happen” – Don Abbondio began to invent excuses, refusing to marry Renzo and Lucia to obey the arrogant lord.
The two young people thus devised a way to circumvent the incomprehensible veto of the fearful priest, ma don Abbondio scatenò il finimondo accusando di prepotenza Renzo e Lucia.
Manzoni comments:
“In the midst of this greenhouse greenhouse, we cannot stop ourselves from stopping for a moment to reflect. Renzo, that screamed at night in someone else's house,
who had snuck in there, and kept the master himself besieged in a room, he has all the appearance of an oppressor; nevertheless, at the end of the day, he was the oppressed. Don Abbondio, surprised, put to flight, scared, while he calmly went about his business, it would appear to be the victim; nevertheless, actually, it was he who was committing an abuse. This is how the world often goes...".
It is now clear that there is something at stake here much more than a simple ministry and much more than one EU reform like the one proposed by Savona (all the experts, aware of the situation, they know that change needs to be made), ma our own national sovereignty is at stake.
Mattarella risks taking on the very serious responsibility not only of sink a government, but also of drag the presidency of the republic into political contention and therefore in a very serious one institutional crisis.
Once the Quirinale enters the political dispute, some might even argue that the Italian state is submitting to the diktat of foreign powers.
As president Mattarella took the oath with these words: “Giuro di essere fedele alla Repubblica e di osservarne lealmente la Costituzione”. He knows well that this means being faithful to the Italian Republic and not to the German one. He knows well that he has to be guardian of the Italian Constitution, not of Merkel's wishes.
As a French economist said (moreover pro-European) Germany, after destroying the economy in Europe, is in danger of also destroy democracy. They “allow” you to change governments, but never policies. And this – complains that economist – will mark the end of the euro.
Antonio Socci
From “Free”, 27 maggio 2018
In the photo: Silvestro Lega, Bersaglieri with Austrian prisoners in the wars of independence (1861)
Facebook: “Antonio Socci official page”
Twitter: @AntonioSocci1
In fact, from Berlin they make it known that they do not tolerate ministers they do not like. It's all out in the open, just read the newspapers.
She is scandalized “"Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" for the insubordination of the Italians towards the Germans: “Italy wants an enemy of Germany in government”.
Where "enemy of Germany" is simply meant an economist who wants to defend the Italian national interest and is critical of German arrogance. We have to stay, by subjects, under the Teutonic boot and kiss it too?
The "Sueddeustche Zeitung" explicitly exalts Mattarella who - according to them - is under siege from Italian voters: “never before has a President of the Republic been put under so much pressure as in recent days by the two parties” who “persist on the name of the radical Eurocritic Paolo Savona”.
According to them, it is not the EU, especially the Germans, to exert intolerable pressure on an Italian Head of State, but the parties most voted by Italians would be the ones who would press unduly who simply govern according to the Constitution. As if Mattarella was at the Quirinale to represent the EU (i.e. Germany).
But it is possible that Mattarella, instead of recognizing the will of the Italian voters, will become the spokesperson for the diktats coming from Berlin?
Hopefully this isn't the case. But you understand well what is happening when you read the Quirinalist of the “Press” Ugo Magri – very Mattarellian – who writes: “it is certain that Mattarella has raised the case of new book from Savona which puts to rest all the anti-Germanic feelings of its author, and accuses the Germans of hegemonic aims comparable to Hitler's".
And we need to think about when Matteo Salvini dice: “It's madness, it is pure madness to blow everything up because Merkel doesn't like Paolo Savona, because he dared to criticize Germany in one of his books".
With the full and significant support of Giorgia Meloni, in this battle for national independence, Salvini he rightly thundered: “German newspapers and politicians insult: Italian beggars, slackers, tax evaders, freeloaders and ungrateful. And we should choose an Economy Minister who suits them? No, Thank you! Italians first".
Salvini reasons with common sense and with the dignity that every political leader should have, as if we were in a country where the Italian people are still sovereign, according to the article 1 of the Constitution.
But evidently in recent years in Italy the pillar of the Constitution has been silently forgotten - defining it contemptuously sovereignism – and allowed foreigners to dominate.
So now Germany feels entitled give us orders. And the technocracy of the EU, in recent days, felt entitled to send its preventive warnings to Italy.
Without the highest offices of the State having felt obliged to defend the dignity and independence of Italy which among other things is one of the major industrial powers in the world.
No European country has seen such a thing foreign interference (not to mention the insolences that the German press throws at us).
On the contrary, Mattarella, instead of rising up against these intolerable interferences by the EU and Germany, seems to become their spokesperson and - turning the tables - accuses foreign powers and the EU of imposing "diktats"., but the League who simply - based on the vote received from the Italians - indicated Paolo Savona for the Treasury Ministry.
It seems like the situation described by Manzoni in the “Betrothed”. After the overbearing diktat of Don Rodrigo - who had ordered through two bravoes: “this wedding shouldn't happen” – Don Abbondio began to invent excuses, refusing to marry Renzo and Lucia to obey the arrogant lord.
The two young people thus devised a way to circumvent the incomprehensible veto of the fearful priest, ma don Abbondio scatenò il finimondo accusando di prepotenza Renzo e Lucia.
Manzoni comments:
“In the midst of this greenhouse greenhouse, we cannot stop ourselves from stopping for a moment to reflect. Renzo, that screamed at night in someone else's house,
who had snuck in there, and kept the master himself besieged in a room, he has all the appearance of an oppressor; nevertheless, at the end of the day, he was the oppressed. Don Abbondio, surprised, put to flight, scared, while he calmly went about his business, it would appear to be the victim; nevertheless, actually, it was he who was committing an abuse. This is how the world often goes...".
It is now clear that there is something at stake here much more than a simple ministry and much more than one EU reform like the one proposed by Savona (all the experts, aware of the situation, they know that change needs to be made), ma our own national sovereignty is at stake.
Mattarella risks taking on the very serious responsibility not only of sink a government, but also of drag the presidency of the republic into political contention and therefore in a very serious one institutional crisis.
Once the Quirinale enters the political dispute, some might even argue that the Italian state is submitting to the diktat of foreign powers.
As president Mattarella took the oath with these words: “Giuro di essere fedele alla Repubblica e di osservarne lealmente la Costituzione”. He knows well that this means being faithful to the Italian Republic and not to the German one. He knows well that he has to be guardian of the Italian Constitution, not of Merkel's wishes.
As a French economist said (moreover pro-European) Germany, after destroying the economy in Europe, is in danger of also destroy democracy. They “allow” you to change governments, but never policies. And this – complains that economist – will mark the end of the euro.
Antonio Socci
From “Free”, 27 maggio 2018
In the photo: Silvestro Lega, Bersaglieri with Austrian prisoners in the wars of independence (1861)
Facebook: “Antonio Socci official page”
Twitter: @AntonioSocci1
Government, The markets like Carlo Cottarelli. Spread in calo a quota 190, bene l'euro, which then oscillate
The objective data is that in Italy, if Merkel doesn't like you, the EU and the IMF cannot be governed. Even if you have a parliamentary majority, a shared program, an appointed prime minister, the team of ministers. The fact, which emerged yesterday in its total drama, what should not be surprising but rather indignant is that those who would like to change the political situation are stopped by the strong powers. (n.d.r.)
Skipped the Lega-M5s government, Italy remains under special observation. The differential between Ten-year BTPs e Bund tedeschi, although controlled by the quantitative easing of the Bce, it immediately began to expand beyond the 200 basis points after opening at odds 190,3 points against i 204 of the closing on Friday. The harsh institutional conflict weighs heavily, with the contractors who evoke theimpeachment for the head of state who he called to Colle Carlo Cottarelli with the intention of entrusting him with the task of forming a technical executive. Il yield on the ten-year bond Italian, who had come down to the 2,34%, he returned to the 2,43%. Read More
The United States is tearing us apart, but in Italy no one noticed
Of Fulvio Scaglione
Source: linkiesta
While bon ton Italy has a good time discussing populism and sovereignism, the Empire strikes again. Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state who came from the CIA (where it leaves, as new boss, tale Gina Haspel, at the time neocon very active in torture and now in fact confirmed in office with the decisive votes of the Democrats), announces "the harshest sanctions in history" against Iran, which could only be canceled if the ayatollahs took appropriate measures. Like disappearing off the face of the earth or converting to Buddhism. There is a basis for the disagreement with Iran, as is known, the Iranian nuclear deal signed in 2015 there USA, Ue, Russia in Onu. For almost the entire world the agreement works and, at a minimum, has blocked Iran's path to military nuclear power 15-20 years. For three countries, however, it is a dangerous disaster. Three against all, but in the three, alongside Israel and Saudi Arabia, there is the Empire, then the table jumps. Bad but that's how empires do it.
In the same speech, but, Pompeo, on behalf of the American administration, clearly explained the fate that awaits us: “We understand the financial and economic hardship this imposes on our friends, but you should know that we will hold accountable those who do prohibited business with Iran. I know that the Europeans want to preserve the nuclear agreement but now they know what our position is".
It's beautiful. Why Pompey, when he talks about “forbidden affairs”, means the businesses prohibited by the USA and the sanctions decided by them, not illicit or criminal business at all. 5 billions of actual trade, others 25 between protocols and agreements already signed and to be implemented. To give an idea: 30 billion was the value of the Italian Stability Law of 2018.
In the same speech, but, Pompeo, on behalf of the American administration, clearly explained the fate that awaits us: “We understand the financial and economic hardship this imposes on our friends, but you should know that we will hold accountable those who do prohibited business with Iran. I know that the Europeans want to preserve the nuclear agreement but now they know what our position is".
It's beautiful. Why Pompey, when he talks about “forbidden affairs”, means the businesses prohibited by the USA and the sanctions decided by them, not illicit or criminal business at all. 5 billions of actual trade, others 25 between protocols and agreements already signed and to be implemented. To give an idea: 30 billion was the value of the Italian Stability Law of 2018.
CONCILIAR TRAGICOMICS: Merkel premiata ad Assisi con la "Lampada della Pace"
IT IS NOT’ A JOKE. POOR S. FRANCESCO! (n.d.r.)
Assisi, Angela Merkel receives the Lamp of Peace from Saint Francis: “Peaceful coexistence of peoples”. The German Chancellery was awarded the ambitious recognition today
12 MAGGIO 2018 DAVIDE GIANCRISTOFARO ALBERTI
Angela Merkel in Assisi for the Lamp of Peace – Twitter
The Prime Minister was also there, Paolo Gentiloni, today in Assisi, for Angela Merkel's award ceremony. The German Chancellery received a coveted award, The Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis, awarded to those who distinguish themselves in the field of peace. The two leaders of Italy and Germany were the protagonists of a brief exchange of words. «Thank you for the collaboration that has existed between our countries during this period», the words of the Italian politician to Merkel, who in turn replied: «Thank you Paolo, I worked well with you". The Church, as La Repubblica writes, in recent years he has begun to see Germany not only as a country that aims to safeguard its national tradition, but also as a nation committed to defending the climate and the welfare state, with an eye towards migrants. The Pope met with the chancellery six times, and on one visit he gave her a medal depicting Saint Martin taking off his cloak to cover a poor man. (update by Davide Giancristofaro) Read More
Bavaria's turning point: "Crocifissi negli uffici governativi"
The announcement by the president of Bavaria: “They will be installed starting from June 1st”
Of Marco Gombacci
“Crucifixes in all government offices,” is what was decided today by Markus Söder, President of Bavaria after a meeting of the Presidential Cabinet.
“Christian crosses and crucifixes will be installed starting from 1 June in all government offices to underline the Bavarian identity and its Christian values" he announced via Facebook the German politician.
Markus Söder was elected President of Germany's richest state in March 2018 when he replaced Horst Seehofer, became Minister of the Interior in the new German federal government. Read More
"Inclusive" Angela Merkel rewarded by the friars (conciliar) of Assisi
Report Roman correspondence
In an era, where in the Catholic Church (or better, in the “Counter-Church” conciliate, n.d.r.) some would already like Luther to be a saint, it is no longer surprising that the annual prize «Lamp of peace of Saint Francis» can be assigned to the daughter of a Protestant pastor, Protestant around you, like German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
She herself is expected in Assisi next time 12 maggio, to receive from the friars (to be gathered, n.d.r.) recognition in the Basilica, which already belonged to Walesa, John Paul II, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Benedict XVI, but also of the Dalai Lama, on Yasser Arafat, by Mahmoud Abbas and by Juan Manuel Santos, the controversial president of Colombia, noto, among other things, for his pro-gender positions.
In a context like this «politically correct» the icon of unregulated immigration like the German leader could not be missing, distinguished itself for having brought hundreds of thousands of foreigners within its borders, only to be forced by the facts into an albeit partial and moderate about-face. The prize was awarded to her by the friars precisely for «his work of conciliation in favor of the peaceful coexistence of peoples», although talking about "peaceful coexistence" is perhaps at least optimistic, as the news unfortunately confirms. After all, he is the same Custos of the Sacred Convent of Assisi (occupied by the conciliars, n.d.r.), father Mauro Gambetti, to have hoped for a Europe capable of expressing a "plural unity", at the moment chimerical and utopian (T. M.). Read More