Italy makes the world tremble. Today in the Stock Exchange, with Business Square which plummets dragging the European price lists with it, and since yesterday in newspapers all over the planet. The watchword is only one: ungovernability, fear that it will be necessary to go back to the polls and concern for the reaction of the markets, which actually did not let themselves be asked this morning. Even the spread with the German Bund immediately rose to 330 basis points.
Il Wall Street Journal for example, careful observer of financial dynamics, rather than pointing to Berlusconi, Bersani or Grillo cuts short: “Italian vote rejects austerity”. And in fact it is like this: Monti stopped at 10%, while the center-right and the 5-star movement, tendentially or strongly anti-European, combined almost 60% of the votes.
The Spanish El Mundo instead speaks of anti-politics rather than anti-austerity: "Monti freezes, anti-politics rises, Italy remains in the balance". More ironic, as always, are the German sites that never miss an opportunity to "make fun" of yet another exploit by Berlusconi, who monopolizes openings with photos and somewhat mocking titles. On the other hand, the British are strangely restrained, with the BBC speaking of an impasse, while France first gives victory to the centre-left, in particular on Le Figaro. However, the same transalpine newspaper then repents and immediately launches an alarm: “French companies ready to leave Italy”.
The tone is perhaps excessive, given that even on the other side of the Alps the situation is not exactly rosy, but it highlights a widespread malaise, especially among large and important companies such as the Crédit Agricole bank (which controls Cariparma), the builder Alstom (which has various orders, most recently the one for Italo trains), Renault and above all Carrefour, the large-scale distribution chain that has invested heavily in Italy (recently 12 million only for the VAT discount initiative), where it has almost 4 million customers and employs thousands of workers.
