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Author Archives: Roberto Orsi
Oct 1 2014
Why Italy Will Not Make It
17 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi Three articles by prestigious commentators (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Roger Bootle for The Telegraph, Wolfgang Münchau for Financial Times) have recently appeared in the financial press about the economic situation of Italy and the (in)stability of its national … Continue reading
Posted by: October 1, 2014
Tagged with: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, austerity, Decline of Europe, default, ECB, Eurozone architecture, Eurozone crisis, Financial Times, German Constitutional Court, Implosion, Italian economy, Italian public debt, Maastricht, Mario Draghi, Neo-Keynesian policies, Neoliberalism, Reforms in Italy, Roger Bootle, The Telegraph, Wolfgang Münchau
Sep 9 2014
A Few Reflections on the Demonisation of Putin
5 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi Henry Kissinger once declared that “Putin’s demonisation is not a policy, but an alibi for the absence of one”. However authoritative the source of this recommendation, the collective fixation with the Russian President has reached new heights … Continue reading
Posted by: September 9, 2014
Tagged with: agonistic politics, Antichrist, decapitation strike, Devil, Evil, hate, hatred, Hitler, Kant, NATO, Perfetual Peace, Putin, Russian Politics, tyrannicide, Ukraine, warfare, WWIII
Oct 8 2013
The Demise of Italy and the Rise of Chaos
249 Commentsby Roberto Orsi Future historians will probably regard Italy as the perfect showcase of a country which has managed to sink from the position of a prosperous, leading industrial nation just two decades ago to a condition of unchallenged economic … Continue reading
Posted by: October 8, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, brain drain, Corruption, mismanagement
Apr 23 2013
The Quiet Collapse of the Italian Economy
71 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi Please also read the updated analysis of the Italian situation in The Demise of Italy and the Rise of Chaos and in Why Italy Will not Make It by the same author. While attention on the Euro … Continue reading
Posted by: April 23, 2013
Tagged with: collapse, depression, Eurozone crisis, Italy, recession
Mar 27 2013
Lessons and Warnings from Cyprus
3 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi The news from Cyprus would have arguably struggled to reach the front page in most European nations if not for the envisaged measure of tackling the financial problems of the country by seizing part of the money … Continue reading
Posted by: March 27, 2013
Tagged with: Bailout, Crisis, Cyprus, Eurozone, Giuliano Amato
Mar 11 2013
What Language for What Europe?
4 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi In his discourse about Europe and the European project pronounced on 22nd February 2013 at the Bellevue Palace in Berlin, German Bundespräsident Joachim Gauck has articulated his view on the future development of the European polity, reinstating … Continue reading
Posted by: March 11, 2013
Tagged with: Common Language, European, European Public Sphere, European Union, Gauck, German, Habermas, Jürgen Gerhards, Language, Mustafa Kemal, Public Sphere, Umberto Eco