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Di Maio says that impeachment is now off the table, and is back to considering a coalition with the Lega.

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Tue May 29th, 2018 at 08:25:24 PM EST
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Umberto Boccioni La città che sale bozzetto, 1910. Futurismo

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, a former chairman of Ferrari, Fiat and Alitalia, and now a public enemy because of his dismissal of the "Made in Italy" label, acquired both companies and moved them to Turkey, choosing profit over quality--and Italian jobs. Montezemolo, of aristocratic background, is a champion of Italian neoliberalism, having founded the influential "free market" think tank Italia Futura (Future Italy) in 2009.
Another victim is the town of Sora, with a population of 25,000, 80 km. (50 miles) east of Rome. Until recently Sora was an affluent commercial city, with medium-sized paper factories and hundreds of shops. Today, all of the factories are gone and 50 percent of shops have closed.
All over Italy, the neoliberal policies that led to the economic crisis and resulting social decadence have accelerated in the wake of the financial collapse of 2007.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Tue May 29th, 2018 at 09:57:25 PM EST
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