Policy | Non-fiction

Mattarella should defend us from European attacks
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Of FRANCESCO STORACE
President, you make us feel Italian? You can make your voice heard against the real scoundrels who every day in Brussels believe they have the right to be able to insult us in a bad way?
It's really becoming a problem to listen to in the morning, afternoon and evening from Tiggi' the discordant word of the European Commissioner Moscovici: “Like the Hungarians – he went so far as to say in a speech at a conference at the OECD headquarters in Paris – the Italians too have opted for a decidedly Eurosceptic and xenophobic government which, on migration and budget issues, is trying to get rid of European obligations”.
But how dare you? It must be the government that defends itself from this nonsense or the head of state will finally feel the need to do so? Read More

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Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

In the EU neither free nor (above all) equal
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Of Maurizio Blondet
In the EU neither free nor (above all) equal
Source: Maurizio Blondet
We were talking yesterday:
Every day we need to become more aware that the struggle towards this EU is a true liberation struggle - for the reconquest of freedom and equality in the European assembly, where we have been reduced to inferiors and subordinates.
An OECD woman orders us not to abolish the Fornero law and accuses Italy of being "a risk for European prosperity".
The ECB and the Commission threaten us with apocalypse and retaliation if we "exceed" the 1.6 percent deficit, denying us the 2, and the 2,9 – but it wasn't the 3, the limit for everyone else? while Macron will exceed the 3 percent this year as well as for at least five years, without receiving any censorship.
What we are so strictly prohibited from doing is deficit spending 10-15 billion; while the ECB has not noticed that Danske Bank has, between 2007 and the 2015, recycled 200 billion euros – and all in the Estonian branch, that is, of a country of 1,4 millions of inhabitants, whose gross domestic product is 22 billion, that is, a tenth of the amount recycled and made to disappear. But Denmark and Estonia are not a risk to Europe's prosperity – Italy is. Read More

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Pensions, alert Ue: Fornero reform should not be touched
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Pensions, alert Ue: Fornero reform should not be touchedReporting of Wall Street Italia
Of Alessandra Caparello
ROMA (WSI) – The European Union launches a new warning on the Italian social security system. In the report adopted on our country as part of the winter package of the European semester, the European Commission is betting the fates on Italy and the Fornero reform in particular indicated as untouchable.
The albeit partial changes made by Renzi governments and Gentiloni on the social security reform adopted by Italy in 2011, under the technical government led by Mario Monti, they would have in fact partially canceled the pension reforms that were made in the past with the consequence of increasing spending for the average period.

“The long-term sustainability of public debt Italian, ensured by pension reforms done in the past, It is slowly deteriorating, so much so that the European Commission's risk indicator went from low to medium (S2). Spending on pensions in relation to GDP increased by around two percentage points, as a result of the crisis and the consequent fall in nominal GDP. Italian pension spending is now the second highest in the EU and in theOECD, after the Greek one (…) The increase in implicit liabilities resulting from the aging of the population had been limited by past reforms of the pension and healthcare systems, which had improved Italy's long-term sustainability.

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