{"id":632,"date":"2011-03-16T12:04:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T11:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premesso.newcontrarian.com\/?p=632"},"modified":"2011-03-16T12:04:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T11:04:42","slug":"150-years-of-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"150 Years of Unity?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Italy’s political situation, overshadowed lately by events in Middle East, is grim.\u00a0 Berlusconi’s coalition totters.\u00a0 Fini’s breakaway group seems waiting for the right moment.\u00a0 Indeed this fall March was bandied about as the right time for a vote.\u00a0 More power has flowed to Lega Nord’s Bossi, whose ministers voted again making the 17th a holiday, and Berlusconi even showed up tot he vote with a handkerchief in green — breakaway Lega’s color.<\/p>\n

As the case was in WW2 and the\u00a0anni di piombo<\/em>, the north is again the battleground for Italy’s future.\u00a0 Lega parliamentarians are in the middle of passing aggressive decentralization reforms that could be completed as early as May.\u00a0 If so, Berlusconi will lose ground as Bossi’s secessionists take Italy back to a past of\u00a0campanilismo<\/em> and freedom from taxation.<\/p>\n

With typical Italian flair for a big show, Turin is prepped for an unlikely show of Italian nationalism.\u00a0 Italian’s lukewarm sentiments towards their nation are legendary.\u00a0 The political crisis going on for the better part of a year highlights this, especially when a member of the ruling coalitions regularly insists that unification is not worth celebrating.\u00a0 It leads one to ask, what’s all the fuss about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Italy’s political situation, overshadowed lately by events in Middle East, is grim.\u00a0 Berlusconi’s coalition totters.\u00a0 Fini’s breakaway group seems waiting for the right moment.\u00a0 Indeed this fall March was bandied about as the right time for a vote.\u00a0 More power has flowed to Lega Nord’s Bossi, whose ministers voted again making the 17th a holiday, … <\/p>\n

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