The crisis is considered an opportunity to apply the long resisted structural reforms, which mean the destruction of the European social model, through the cancellation of labor statutes, the reduction of social welfare and the weakening of the labor unions..
What went wrong? From the Lisbon's agenda to the awful combination of monetary stability and "structural reforms”: The self-defeating ideology of the Frankfurt-Brussels axis.
The reform addresses the first side of the triangle of the crisis, insofar as the number of uninsured will be drastically reduced, but the problems of inequality before the illness and of costs remain away from a solution.
Perché l’ Unione europea non assiste la Grecia? L’argomento della falsificazione delle statistiche finanziarie e delle ragioni legali che impediscono il suo salvataggio finanziario non ha un reale fondamento. Il prossimo obiettivo dei mercati finanziari potrebbe essere la Spagna. Il problema di fondo nasce dalla inconsistenza delle politiche dell’Unione europea e dalla sua permanente vocazione deflazionista.
Why Greece shouldn’t be helped in the current financial difficulties? The budget falsification issue and the alleged legal impediment don't provide a convincing justification. The Spain could be the next target of the financial market. The problem arises of EMU policy inconsistency and its permanent deflationist inclination.
The actual 'exceptionality' of the Italian case is not a centre-right government but its identification with the person of Silvio Berlusconi.It has been a mistake, from the very beginning, to underestimate his disruptive vision of politics and of institutions.