Matteo Renzi, secretary of the Democratic Party, presenting the programme for the upcoming general elections to be held on March 4 on February 14, 2018 in Rome. February 14, 2018. NurPhoto/Press Association. All rights reserved.Aren't other countries following the British way out? For a while, the English-language press was awash with speculations about Italy intending to do the same. A neologism gained traction back in 2016 – Quitaly.
An ill-thought-out Euro was blamed. It strangled Italy's exports to the advantage of Germany's, they said. It halved Italians' purchasing power and savings. And so on. Nothing unreasonable was penned, albeit always by those who were never keen on the EU in the first place.
Snappy, superficial journalism? Nothing of the sort. Some foreign hacks just didn't dig deep enough, not in terms of stats and mathematical models, but from a political perspective – into the words, the gestures and the compromises.
