the fact that the spread between Italian or Spanish treasuries and their German counterpart has grown massively:

Warning over bond spreads in Europe

March 7 2008

Widening spreads between German government bonds and those of Italy, Greece and other eurozone countries are a "wake-up call" for policymakers, Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, warned yesterday.

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The growing gap between yields illustrates the extent to which the global credit turmoil is causing investors to demand higher risk premiums for holding bonds considered more risky and instead buy those of Germany - which has the region's largest and most liquid market.

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Italy's Treasury took some comfort in that the closing spread of 59.7 basis points between 10-year Italian and German bonds, the biggest gap since 1999, was overtaken by Greece yesterday, which widened to more than 60bp. Yields on bonds issued by most other eurozone governments, including Spain, the Netherlands and France, also continued to widen against the Bund yesterday.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes