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The Guardian: Europe's ruthless treatment of Italy only reinforces popular resentment
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theguardian
France and Germany often violate eurozone rules, while the poor in Italy pay the price
Sunday 16 December
The stalemate with European officials. Ministers flying to Brussels to negotiate a last-minute deal. Cries of betrayal at home. Dark warnings of economic calamity and social unrest.
No, it is not the Brexit serial in Westminster but the European crisis that everyone seems to have forgotten: the comparison between Brussels and Rome on the Italian budget. Read More

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ONG, finance and migrants. The Jacques Attali case
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Of Ilaria Bifarini
ONG, finance and migrants. The Jacques Attali case
Source: Economic Scenarios
Known as the gray eminence of French politics since Mitterrand and known for his ultra-Europeanism, Jacques Attali is the man who discovered Macron, presenting him to President Hollande of whom he became an advisor. He is credited with the authorship of a very explanatory phrase on elitist sentiment : “But what do you believe, the European rabble: that we created the euro for their happiness?”. Another statement by the illustrious economist is less well known, professor, financier and long-time trusted advisor to the Elysée: “The most intelligent form of selfishness is altruism”.
Philanthropy, this humanitarianist quirk that seems to infect the most successful men, he did not spare Jacques Attali, that in 1998 he founded the non-profit association Planet Finance. Right, the name immediately betrays what should be the humanitarian aim of this organization that operates in 60 countries and offers financial services and consultancy, microfinance to be precise. Ended up in the eye of the storm for the "slavery" economic treatment reserved for interns who required first-rate requirements, the company changes name and becomes Positive Planet, evoking in its name the positivity of the economic model it represents. Read More

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Straight Column
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Franco Bassanini, Legion of Honor, with the former mayor. Now, Bassanini negotiates a pact with France. On behalf of the expired government.

Of Maurizio Blondet
Il 13 last June Guy Verhofstadt, former Belgian Prime Minister, MEP, with its hands in all the pro-European and oligarchic affairs, he used a “heavy” term – and usually forbidden in civil political controversy – to accuse the democratic opposition of the Euro-oligarchy: "Fifth column".
“Government leaders like Orbàn, Kaczynski and Salvini have only one goal, destroy Europe and kill our liberal democracy, and they are doing it together with what I call Putin's cheerleaders: Nigel Farage, Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders”.
“There is a circle of evil around our continent, which includes Putin, Erdogan and, if things get bad, Trump too” – adding – “Politicians like Le Pen, Wilders e Farage, they are only capable of pocketing the Kremlin's money and to receive help from Moscow's secret services. I am Putin's fifth column.".
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Sovereignty and the opinions of the President of the Republic
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Of Paolo Becchi e Giuseppe Palma
Sovereignty and the opinions of the President of the Republic
Source: Economic Scenarios
Even at the last moment, M5S and Lega have reached an agreement for the formation of a political government which determines an essential turning point: this is the first real victory of the sovereignist forces. First of all, towards Europe: in a Union that, after all, it had managed to ensure its balance even in the presence of anti-European forces, a "sovereignist" Italy is now arriving, led by an alliance between the two main “national-popular” forces. Elsewhere, we had had defeats: despite Le Pen's good electoral result, Macron's France prevailed, as well as in Germany, despite the nationalist exploit, the system has regrouped. Ecco, the Italian novelty: the “system” was unable to regroup, to absorb and neutralize the oppositions that crossed it. Right, everyone tried in every way: Berlusconi thinking of a center-right government that would find the support of the "responsible" in parliament, the Democratic Party hoping for the President's government, Mattarella with his hypothesis of a "neutral government". But in the end Lega and M5S won: they will govern, Together, after Berlusconi's step aside. As it was in the nature of things from the beginning. Read More

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