The humanitarian crisis is proliferating. We have homeless families who until a few short months ago had a home and whose members had some kind of job. Now they have fallen through society’s cracks, perhaps irreversibly.
The altenative between a minority PD's government and Berlusconi's pledge of a large coallition. New elections as solution of last resort. The different outcomes will condition the future of Democratic party, and of Italian Left.
Currently many EU countries are using the Euro crisis as a reason for deregulating labour markets. Many of the new regulations increase employee insecurity and some have been introduced with almost no parliamentary involvement.
For a way out of the crisis another path is possible, if we still keep the single currency but if we change regulations and economic policies. And introduce more democracy, also in the economy.
The need of the old “golden rule”, according which a country may finance public investment expenditures issuing bonds, while only current account expenditures have to be balanced.
The stagnation of the Italian economy over the last twenty years has a simple, straight-forward cause, which is the mirror opposite of the neoliberal narrative.
