Romano Prodi presses Prime Minister Enrico Letta and invites him to go to Europe and quarrel with the Germans: “We must always be examined in a static way, with a sort of formulary and it is not clear instead that there is a moment of crisis in whose rules need to be changed? It is not possible that the austerity debate only comes about when the Americans scold the Germans. Your government is busy but there is a moment in which we also have to argue. I think that's the lesson to be learned."
It is no coincidence that Letta, after Prodi's strong words, thus addresses Germany: "Berlin be careful or you will have a desert around you". And he adds: "Yesterday I said to the Germans: look, if you continue on this path you will continue to be strong for a while longer, but you risk having a desert around you and in the end you too will weaken".
