10-28-2009, 01:44 PM
Quote:kandrathe would've barged in regardless of whether you triggered him or not. According to him, everything that's wrong in the world is a result of people who don't dogmatically follow a hardcore Republican ideology.
Now you guys are just being mean.
Anyway, Italian politics is really dramatic. (I know I am hijacking my own thread now, after stating myself clearly that I didn't want to talk about italian politics but about EU parliament politics).
The president of the regione Lazio Piero Marrazzo of the Partito Democratico went to a transseksual prositute, escorted by 4 police officers. One of whom brought a camera, filmed the whole thing and via via the tape arrived in the hands of Berlusconi (or actually his daughter). He of course will not show this tape on TV, because the damage has been done and he can use it as change for when others will threaten him with showing footage with him on TV.
In the mean time Italy was critized for the way it tries to deal with the economic crisis (a report by a big european bank if I'm correct). There are 3 countries in Europe that are still not recovering; Ireland, Spain and Italy. The first two have seen a big boom in the 90's after lots of EU subsidies, and subsequently overplayed their hands with all kinds of real estate development problem (market crunch, loaned money etc.). In Italy however, according to this report, the government was just incapable of dealing with the crisis.
It is very sad to see that beautiful country slip away slowly and destroying their valuables like the beautiful coastline and nice city centers, because of the incapability to govern. And since they are founding members of the EU, the EU should have stepped in long ago.