Posted on 06/07/2018 4:15:37 AM PDT by GonzoII
Der Spiegel magazine has aggravated tensions between Germany and Italy with a contemptuous article accusing the Italians of being ungrateful “moochers” who are pulling Europe into a crisis reminiscent of Greece’s.
“In Rome, populists with their anti-euro course seriously endanger the European project,” Der Spiegel announces in this week’s issue. “They are dragging their country and Europe into the next big crisis after the Greek drama and the Brexit decision.”
The scornful cover depicts spaghetti twirled on a fork, hanging down in the shape of a noose, with the caption “Ciao Amore: Italy is destroying itself and dragging down Europe with it.”
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Yes and no. Italy is undisclosed and overspends. True.
Then again the Euro is effectively a competitive currency devaluation for Germany which boosts their exports - and thus exports unemployment to Southern Europe......which causes Italy’s government to have to spend more. Who is on the hook for a lot of that public debt in Italy and the rest of Southern Europe? German banks backstopped by German taxpayers.
If Italy seceded from the EU and defaulted on its debts, the Germans would be left holding the bag. If Italy then devalued the reintroduced lira - which it would certainly do - German goods would be very expensive in Italy while Italian goods would be a lot cheaper in world markets.
This problem was not created solely by Italy and they aren’t the only ones on the hook here. The Germans don’t want to see that.
“This is particularly hilarious coming from the Germans who have been mooching from America for generations to provide for their national defense.“
Well, when we have let them do it themselves, they tend to overdo it somewhat.
Yep.
In addition it’s the EU trying to lean on Italy to accept Muslim hordes it does not want.
What about the Africans that Germany wants the Italians to take in and keep? They’re not moochers too?
Germany is always the enemy.
EU masters want their slaves to just shut up and take it.
They actually seem surprised when some countries figure out the EU is just a project to lock in German-French hegemony.
It’s the classic clueless-dictator’s gripe - “How dare they rebel! Why can’t they appreciate all the good we’re doing for them?”
Italy has many problems. I’m glad to see Italians reject the politicians who have failed.
The migrant issue pushed them over the edge.
German "European Project" #1:
German "European Project" #2:
Maybe it's time to give someone else a chance
The Euro and Brussels are indeed a cage for the PIIGS.
Why isn’t anyone who witnesses this kind of abuse of women not knocking the crap out of those a**h**es? What if i was your sister, and everyone just stood around?
Italians are “ungrateful moochers” for not working harder in their own country to support the ungrateful foreign moochers that Merkel and her globalists want as a replacement population? As usual with the political left, nothing makes sense.
Because the Muslim hordes travel in groups, serfs in Yurp countries are not allowed to carry guns, because the PC media will immediately label you as “far right” and “racist” if you try to make the barbarians act like civilized human beings and because the PC establishment governments will prosecute you instead of the Muslim rapefugees.
They are pretty stupid. Consider the Italians are mooches but the millions of Mad Mo’s they let in their country are the salt of the earth? I think Germany has a suicide complex like most liberals except it is on a national scale this time around.
Allow the lira to reach its own level.
thanks GonzoII. Meanwhile:
Just Met The New Prime Minister Of Italy. A Really Great Guy. The People Got It Right
POTUS via Twitter | 06/09/18 | Donald J. Trump
Posted on 06/09/2018 1:51:17 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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