{"id":363125,"date":"2018-05-28T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T13:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-italys-new-populist-government-really-might-blow-up-the-euro\/"},"modified":"2018-05-28T14:39:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T13:39:58","slug":"prison-planet-com-italys-new-populist-government-really-might-blow-up-the-euro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-italys-new-populist-government-really-might-blow-up-the-euro\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Italy\u2019s new populist government really might blow up the euro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2018\/05\/21\/italys-new-populist-government-really-might-blow-up-the-euro\/?utm_term=.901d703ace6c\"><strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/a><br \/>May 22, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stop me if you\u2019ve heard this one before: A populist government has come to power promising to do things it can\u2019t do if it wants to stay in the euro zone, yet it says it doesn\u2019t want to leave.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That, of course, is what happened in Greece in 2015, and, as proof that the euro crisis never really ends but, rather, takes a break for a while, that is what is happening in Italy right now. The question, then, is whether this brewing confrontation will turn out any differently than the last one, or whether Europe\u2019s threat of financial ruin will be enough to coerce Italy\u2019s radicals into becoming the barely willing executors of policies they despise, as Greece\u2019s radicals did.<\/p>\n<p>So far, at least, the basic outline has been the same in both cases. Italy, like Greece, has cycled through center-left and center-right governments that haven\u2019t been able to get their economy moving again while adhering to the strictures of euro zone policy. Indeed, even accounting for the fact that their working-age populations have both been shrinking, Italy\u2019s economy has barely done better than Greece\u2019s since the euro was first introduced in 1999, and actually hasn\u2019t grown at all since 2004. The reasons for this might be somewhat mysterious \u2014 the country\u2019s sclerotic small businesses and the red tape that keeps them from getting bigger might have a lot to do with it \u2014 but the results, as you can see below, have not been.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2018\/05\/21\/italys-new-populist-government-really-might-blow-up-the-euro\/?utm_term=.901d703ace6c\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Tuesday, May 22, 2018  at  7:00 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/italys-new-populist-government-really-might-blow-up-the-euro.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/italys-new-populist-government-really-might-blow-up-the-euro.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington PostMay 22, 2018 Stop me if you\u2019ve heard this one before: A populist government has come to power promising to do things it can\u2019t do if it wants to stay in the euro zone, yet it says it doesn\u2019t want to leave. That, of course, is what happened in Greece in 2015, and, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-363125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}