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Category Archives: Italy
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
May 30 2014
Beppe Grillo’s Bitter Moment of Truth
8 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi The European election results in Italy have been rather surprising. In the context of today’s three-party political landscape (the centre-left Democratic Party, Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement, and Berlusconi’s Forza Italia), most pre-vote polls indicated a rise … Continue reading
Posted by: May 30, 2014
Tagged with: Election, Euro, European Elections 2014, European Union, Euroscepticism, Grillo, Italy, Renzi
May 29 2014
A Legitimization of the Italian Government More Than a Vote for Europe
4 CommentsBy Monica Poletti The overwhelming victory of the Democratic Party Elections in Italy rarely fail to surprise. The victory at the 2014 EP elections of the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his centre-left, pro-European Democratic Party (PD) came as a … Continue reading
Posted by: May 29, 2014
Tagged with: Democratic Party, Election, EU, Euro, Euro crisis, European Elections 2014, European Union, Euroscepticism, Eurozone, Eurozone crisis, Five star movement, Grillo, Italy, Nationalism, populism, Renzi
May 28 2014
Disengagement, Division and the ‘Peasants’ Revolt’
2 CommentsBy Marley Morris “A kind of peasants’ revolt”. So said Boris Johnson of the European election results on Monday in a – typically English – evaluation of the events. Yet the picture is much more nuanced – and varied – than he makes out. … Continue reading
Posted by: May 28, 2014
Tagged with: European Elections 2014, European Union, Euroscepticism, populism
Feb 14 2014
Entrepreneurship in Southern Europe: Symptom or Solution to the Euro Crisis?
6 CommentsBy Stefan Bauchowitz Against ample discouraging evidence, expressions of false optimism occasionally enter into the debate on the Euro crisis. As an example of such optimism, a previous post on this blog by Mark Esposito voiced high hopes for entrepreneurialism in … Continue reading
Posted by: February 14, 2014
Tagged with: Entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, growth, Recovery, subsistence entrepreneurs
Feb 7 2014
First Step to Solving the Eurozone Crisis: Change our Perceptions
4 CommentsBy Terence Tse How not to save a company Imagine the following. Your company is on the verge of bankruptcy. The only way to get out of this is to get all your employees to put in more efforts and … Continue reading
Posted by: February 7, 2014
Tagged with: Blame, Euro crisis, News, positive news, Press
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
Sep 10 2013
The spread of anti-establishment politics across Central and Eastern Europe may hold lessons for West European countries
Comments Off on The spread of anti-establishment politics across Central and Eastern Europe may hold lessons for West European countriesBy Seán Hanley & Allan Sikk The spectacular breakthrough of Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement in Italy in February underlined the potential for a new type of anti-establishment politics in Europe: loosely organised, tech savvy and fierce in its demands … Continue reading
Posted by: September 10, 2013
Tagged with: anti-establishment, anti-establishment reform parties, anti-politics, Central Europe, Czech Republic, Estonia, Grillo, Poland
Jul 29 2013
Italy on the brink: the hidden story of the 2011 near-collapse and analogies with today
4 Commentsby Fabrizio Goria The difficult position of Italy in the on going Euro Crisis has already been highlighted in our blog in contrast to the surprisingly limited coverage that the international press has dedicated to the country. Today, we are glad to … Continue reading
Posted by: July 29, 2013
Tagged with: Bank of Italy, De Bortoli, financial autarky, financial collapse, Italy, Mario Monti, Silvio Berlusconi