After a white-hot internal discussion, which saw the director take sides against some big names, the British weekly The Economist, unlike the Financial Times, votes NO to the Italian referendum on constitutional reform and suggests a caretaker government for our country, making Beppe Grillo rejoice. The attack on Renzi was harsh: "he wasted almost two years tinkering with the Constitution but the sooner Italy gets back to dealing with real reforms, the better it is for all of Europe".
Renzi obviously doesn't agree and thus comments on the approximate judgment of the English weekly which is not new to mistaking fireflies when it comes to commenting on Italy's complicated internal politics: "Everyone knows that if the YES vote wins in the referendum, a battle will break out i Europe on the hottest dossiers, while if NO wins there will be a new Monti-style solution and no one will say anything in Brussels, but we will never stand still and we will react to the Europe that wants you to be weaker”.
This morning, in an interview during a video forum on the website of the newspaper La Stampa, Renzi added: “The Economist says that the victory of the No vote is perhaps better because a technocratic government arrives, perhaps it is better for Italy. The last technocratic government that I remember raised taxes and brought the GDP down to -2,3%, it was the government of Mario Monti”.
