Italy, the Euro and the populists

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Italy’s Budget in 2019 is in breach of EU directives. Because the government does not interfere, and hopes to solve the Problem somehow. But in the Euro, the populists want to hold on to most of Rome by schaubarem reason.

Future scenario-Italy 2020: The country is ruled by a populist party Alliance, whose primary aim of the exit from the Euro. The European common currency is in Italy and “the Italians come before all others,” says the fictional government in your step, that triggers shock waves in the whole of Europe. The grim political fiction, published by Sergio Rizzo Recently. The Italian Journalist is one of the most famous publicists in the country,

In “La notte che uscimmo dall’euro” (“The night we came out of the Euro”), as the title says Rizzo exiting the Euro as a result of nationalism, not only in Italy is becoming stronger. In other countries, the Journalist writes in his fiction, is the nationalism. The Only thing that keeps you in “La notte”, the EU together and the Euro – to the fictional Italian government, the economic European gang 2020 cut – Rizzo’s thoughts on the game.

In reality, Italy is trying to send is, in fact, a populist government, at least in terms of euros current other signals. A few days ago, the Deputy head of the government, Luigi Di Maio of the Euro promised to be critical of the Five-star movement the whereabouts of Italy in the Euro-Zone. The European Union rejected the budget for the year 2019, the government wants to hold on but.

Forefather of Italian populism: Guglielmo Giannini

Of possible penalties Di Maio was not impressed. The European Union would abstain on the end of sanctions, since the country is likely to receive support from other EU States – were meant to be such, in which populist movements in Power, or at least strongly represented. This, apparently Di Maios calculus, are likely to continue to expand its position in the European elections next may.

“L’uomo Qualunque” – “The little man”

“The Italians in front of all the other”: The Austrittskommuniqué in Rizzo’s political fiction reflects a Central concern of Italian populism. The representative knew since time immemorial, that no political Agenda is more successful than the Protest against the Establishment, initially against Italian, then later the European political Elite. “Abbassi tutti” (“Down with all”) – this slogan, the forefather of Italian populism Guglielmo Giannini had collected after the end of the Second world war, the Motto of his highly successful magazine. Their name gave the ideological direction: “L’uomo Qualunque”, “The little man”.

The magazine claimed, the name of the Italian population claimed before – to protect the cynicism of the professional politicians. Politicians, so the accusation, would see their Power as a “means to make a career, in order to secure employment, pay, maintenance, concessions, and to do good business.”

The people versus the state

Latent held this allegation to the 1960s, and then ebb and flow and, finally, in the late ‘ 80s, again. Was fired this mood in the early 1990s by a huge, all the political parties by moving corruption scandal. Its geographical center: the economic metropolis of Milan. Which was soon called “Tangentopoli” – the “city of bribes” -. The confidence of Italians in their politicians was more than just shocked – it was almost there.

The Tangentopoli scandal was the basis for success for a further Populi: the media entrepreneur Silvio Berlusconi. He also gave himself as an Anti-politician – regardless of the “System” and therefore, like no other, capable of Italy out of the swamp. Who, if not he, the self-made man, could save the country? “We want the people ruled the state and not that of the state ruled the people,” was one of Berlusconi’s slogans. You spun those contrast between the people and the state, or Elite, the Giannini with success.

The self-made man as a self-appointed Savior of Italy: Silvio Berlusoni 1994

It is well-known: Berlusconi, the – sublime in its self – representation-across all ideologies, points of purely pragmatic face, the following entrepreneurs, was not able to the country’s problems to solve. For many Italians the discomfort remained at the state – and the desire to take the problems into their own hands. The two partners of the current coalition government, the “Five-star”movement and the “Lega” that handles this request.

Outsider and Established

But in particular, the Lega has had to make since their first participation in Government in 1994, the experience that the problems of the country also alleged Anti-politicians can’t solve. Therefore, they presented a new image of the enemy: the Euro. Now, the European common currency was regarded as the mother of all the problems that the country work. To want against the Euro and tackle – to say the least – promised to be an almost inexhaustible potential for Mobilisation, Protest parties such as the Lega, but also the Five star movement is mandatory. The ongoing economic crisis was most like water on the mills of the populist and the Euro was always more of a scapegoat.

Long been target of criticism: student protest in Turin against the Alliance from the “Lega” and “Five star movement”

The onslaught of political outsiders had to reset the established parties. These joined together repeatedly changing alliances. This was and is a mistake, says Enrico Letta, a co-founder of the Christian and social Democrats that emerged of the “Partito Democratico” (democratic party), and in the years of 2013/14, for several months, the Italian Prime Minister. “I don’t think that an Alliance between the party families in the 20th century. Century have survived – the socialists and the Christian Democrats – the solution may be. It is a defensive reaction that is not for anyone attractive,” said Letta in 2016 in an Interview with the news magazine “L’Espresso”.

The business of fear

Letta hinted at it: The Italian populists were and are also so successful, because they are directed against a first, relatively hermetic, secondly, to show politically and economically, not an impressive balance sheet, and can. More and more, however, noticed you are in Italy, lose also in Germany, citizens ‘ trust in the established parties.

A lot of former voters of the SPD feel of the social Democrats no longer represented, it is said in a comment to the newspaper “La Repubblica”. Perhaps it was mainly an emotional break, “more perceived than real”. And yet: “The impression of a detachment in gear, come hangs over everything.”

In addition, the parties operated on in Germany, too, with fear, – stated in the newspaper “Il Messaggero”. Two objects of the German fear: immigration and the climate catastrophe. Of these Fears the populist and on the other hand, the ecological parties, the newspaper benefited, on the one side.

In Italy, the Euro makes, however, very much afraid. To stay In the Euro-Zone, as it has promised the Vice-Premier Di Maio now, would have been for the populist parties is not low advantage: It could also be produced in the future against him mood.

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