Posted on 04/13/2020 7:58:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
FURIOUS Italians want to leave the EU after the Commission failed to swiftly negotiate aid packages for the fight against coronavirus, a poll has found. EU finance ministers agreed upon a 500 billion euro rescue package to bail countries out during the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, the deal does not cover joint debt to finance recovery which Italy, France and Spain were pushing for but that was rejected by Germany, Netherlands, Austria and Finland. Italy has been ravaged by the coronavirus and until recently, had the most deaths worldwide. Now, 49 percent of the 1,000 Italians polled are in favour of leaving the EU, according to a poll by the Tecne Institute.
That is 20 percent more "Italiexit" supporters than a year and a half ago when the question was last put to the public.
The survey was conducted on April 9 and 10 - shortly before the agreement on aid payments.
It echoes the results of another survey, carried out by Termometro, that found 39.9 percent of Italians are pro-leaving the EU.
Meanwhile, 40.9 percent want to remain, and the rest are either in favour of only leaving the eurozone or only to remain, even without EU membership.
"The Italians have already become very suspicious of Europe.
“There is a risk that an 'Italexit' could be triggered," said Jacques Delors Institute director Sébastien Maillard on the consequences of the coronavirus crisis.
The current situation has what it takes to shake up the structure of the EU, according to the Paris expert.
Similarly, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte warned that the EU’s very existence would be under threat if countries could not pull together to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
He told the Financial Times newspaper that monetary policies alone would not resolve the issue.
“Monetary policy alone cannot solve all problems; we need to do the same on the fiscal front”, Mr Conte said.
“The route to follow is to open ESM (European Stability Mechanism) credit lines to all member states to help them fight the consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic,”
In countries most afflicted by the virus, such as Italy, where citizens have entered the fifth week of strict quarantine, people could begin to feel that they can no longer rely on the solidarity of traditional partners.
"A Europe without Italy is a deadly danger," said Mr Maillard.
"After Brexit, you cannot imagine that another country would leave the EU, especially a founding country."
The expected recession in many countries could trigger a social crisis and strengthen nationalist forces.
Former European Commission President Jacques Delors, 94, who led the Brussels authorities from 1985 to 1995, warned last month of a lack of European solidarity during the crisis.
Italy has recorded its lowest number of new COVID-19 deaths in more than three weeks, with further 431 people dying during 24-hours. The country’s death tool overtook China and now stands at 19.,899.
The number of patients admitted into intensive care with the virus was lower for the ninth consecutive day - showing the curve is starting to flatten.
Silver linings.
I’ve been a Euroskeptic all along and am deeply suspicious of the EU. However, Italy seems to be throwing a tantrum because they feel the country isn’t getting enough money from the EU. Oh yeah, flounce off in a huff, that’ll fix it, you can print Lira to your heart’s content and all will be right with Italy, lol.
Hard to blame. Surrendering your national sovereignty to Germany and France only to have them withheld your medical supply and then rely on China, Russia and US for relief is a tough thing.
I do not believe your perception to be true.
I do believe that your perception is the narrative that the European media is trying to sell.
But as this plays out I believe the Italians are going to insist that being flooded with Muslims has a whole lot more to do with it. And they aren’t going to be placated with mere money.
I can’t believe its taken the Italians such a long time to wake up.
And look at the Greeks - they are still trying to figure out WTF is happening.
Italy finally realized the EU ain’t concerned about them and is more concerned about China.
Maybe Italians in Italy are finally waking up to what the EU is all about.
Oh it can’t be that. That goes against the narrative.
India knew this all along.
Yep.
Italy would be much better off leaving the EU, re-adopting the Lira and then embarking on competitive devaluation of the lira. This would inflate away their debts and would make their goods much cheaper on international markets than they are now.....which would drive down unemployment.
Spaghettiexit?
SPLITALY!
The Muslims aren’t the ones at fault for the spread of this virus.
How about Italy gives the EU the boot??
“Leave the EU. Take the cannoli.”
You win.
Yep. EU/China narrative.
I sure hope they won’t be placated. Brits and now Italians.
100,000s of chinese flooding their country with infected with something chinese lab engineered, who the government sold their country to (just like Australia and every other country)and now suffering because of it...yeah maybe they are waking the fuck up (ooh sorry for those here who think that matters).
China, Muslim, etc.
We should have closed our borders on 9-11. We didn’t. We should have closed our borders in January 2020. Oh we kinda did the latter but that’s racist for whatever reason. We should be very interested in Epstein’s so called suicide...we aren’t. Epstein Island? I wouldn’t even know about it if not for this board.
I hope Americans aren’t going to be placated either.
Iran
Iran isn’t part of Italy.
No, really? I had no idea.
RME
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