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Yes the Euro is to blame. I’ve lived enough in Italy to see how generally Italians have absolutely no idea what’s going on in the global economy and why now th

Yes the Euro is to blame. I’ve lived enough in Italy to see how generally Italians have absolutely no idea what’s going on in the global economy and why now the country is in regression now. They are like “distracted” by a telenovela-like politics (you cite Berlusconi) that doesn’t explain anything about the state of the italian economy and why it goes this way down. And when they try, the political discussion is eaten by a calcio-style debate, at the paradox where socially worth maneuvers are now a fascist thing, while no left parties are there to embrace the economical revolution your country requires. Politics has no role here, whatever the RAI is screaming in the news, whatever the party is at the government, Italians just accept whatever Europe or industrial lobbies want, and now here are the results. Yet still they continue to debate about useless political dramas.

znpy 8y ago
It's worth adding to the discussion that Berlusconi's influence has begun way earlier that many people would think . It is a know fact for example that in early 90ies when journalist Marco Travaglio was strongly criticising Berlusconi, Berlusconi was effectively able to get him fired via his control of the advertising company Publitalia 80. Advertising was already at the time one of the major source of revenew for newspapers, and Publitalia 80 straight up refused to buy advertising space from newspapers that employed Marco Travaglio. In the end, Marco Travaglio had to create his own newspaper in order to be able to continue do his job. This was early 90ies. Immagine what more than twentym (thirty?) years of this have made of public information (both public and private).