The Coming Crisis: Italian election lessons for wider Europe

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Italian election lessons for wider Europe Mar 4th 2013, 05:05 A week ago I was outside polling stations in Rome asking people how they voted. Many were coy. Others openly said they had voted for Beppe Grillo. These were ordinary, thoughtful people. They had not been emotionally swayed by a firebrand speech in a piazza. Neither did they appear unstable. They had made a clear calculation: that Italy's political system needed tearing up and cleaning out. They cast their vote for Mr Grillo's movement because they had lost faith in the old political caste. In Brussels, there was silence or the knee-jerk rant against populists or clowns. What there was not was an understanding of the desire for fundamental change, or of the growing despair that Europe is not working. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21649032

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