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Originally posted by MrFun
I forgot -- how often does Italy change its government? Every three months?
I forgot -- how often does Italy change its government? Every three months?
) also stayed in place for a significant time.
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IIRC, they have become much more stable the last decade. Berlusconi has already been here for several years, and I think the previous one (d'Alema? ) also stayed in place for a significant time.
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Berlusconi's cabinet has had a certain musical chairs quality to it, tho.
I actually made a thread about this on l'Event, so I can't be entirely apathetic wrt Italy.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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Originally posted by mrmitchell
Has Italy ever been right?
There was that little thing called the Renaissance. I seem to recall it did a few things right, then.
Italy
Berlusconi
The Vatican
Savonarola
Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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Come on Molly! Savonarola is got to be worth at least twos
Que l’Univers n’est qu’un défaut dans la pureté de Non-être.
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Curiously enough this isn't actually anything to do with Italy's budget deficit. There was an article in a newspaper here last Sunday about this because it involves EU competition rules and the Commissioner concerned is Irish. The EU Commission is after various countries, particularly France, for happily allowing their companies to buy companies in other EU countries but blocking takeover attempts the other way.
Mr Fazio is at the centre of a controversy over his role in the struggle for control of Banca Antonveneta, which pitted Italy's Banca Popolare Italiana against ABN Amro.
The central bank approved Banca Popolare Italiana's takeover offer for its Italian rival.
However, details of leaked conversations revealed that Mr Fazio tipped off Banca Popolare's boss about the Bank of Italy's decision to clear the bid.
On Thursday, Mr Berlusconi added his voice to the chorus of Italian politicians calling for Mr Fazio to resign, saying his presence was "not compatible with national credibility".
His intervention followed concern that the Bank of Italy's international standing had been damaged by the allegations of bias in its handling of the takeover battle.
ABN Amro is a Dutch bank.Never give an AI an even break.Comment
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Yes, Mr. Fazio has almost single handedly trashed Italian Central Banks reputation among other central bankers and others.
At the time Berlusconi was backing him strongly partly in order to see ICBs soveigrenity and credibility weakening. Now they have apparantly got into some disagreement and Berlusconi is stabbing him in the back.
I guess absolute power does corrupt afterall....
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Well that's a relief.Originally posted by Spiffor
IIRC, they have become much more stable the last decade. Berlusconi has already been here for several years, and I think the previous one (d'Alema? ) also stayed in place for a significant time.
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one thing about italy is that its economy has learned to function indepentantly from the political evolutionsComment
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Well, the economy doesn't appear to be doing too great either, does it? FIAT is limping on cash injectments, Parmalat crashed down in fraud, the backbone of its economy lies wihin sectors in which China has a competetive edge and its presence in the "new economy" is anemic.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.Comment
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5% is that bad if it's done several years in a row during no-growth periods.Originally posted by
Smiley
Is 5% all that bad? USA runs at over 3%.
Before the hurricanes, the US was running at a 3.4% deficit (all levels, consolidated), with economic growth at 5.7% nominal.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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one thing about italy is that its economy has learned to function indepentantly from the political evolutions
You never used italian mass transportation did you?I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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what's the relation of what I said with what you say? (for the question you posed, i have actually)Comment
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quality=production=country standardI will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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Thing about Bereta_Eder (change back your nick already, you pattycake!
) is, he lives in one of the only EU countries that are even more messed up than Italy, so his standards are a bit warped.
Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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I will make it even more clear: economy (or the capital if you prefer) has learned to live without being influenced by the rapid political changes that take place in Italy. Strikes in the metro are unrelated with that. Oh and spare me your little sermont there last comformist about your "advanced" masturbating countries
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