– Just to make you understand how much the European bureaucratic beast has grown, know that the set of procedures that Commission follows to implement the law EU are indicated by the term “comitology”. It seems like an illness. And deep down maybe it is.
– Best wishes to Five Star Movement who turns 15 today. I’m not here to summarize for you all the tear-jerking posts of the various Toninellis, convinced that the M5S was “the only hope for this country, corrupt in soul and heart, especially in its ruling class”. The real question, if anything, is one: are we sure that today we can celebrate the anniversary of the birth of that intuition Cricket And Casaleggioor we must already give him up for dead (or transformed) under the banner of Giuseppe Conte?
– Italy’s problem is called “expense public”. Not in the sense that the State should stop investing in health, school and safety. Never be. The point is that we evidently spend too much and spend badly, so much so that the tax burden is at its highest but the yield in terms of services can definitely be revised. They know it well Carlo Cottarelli And Roberto Perottiboth called to Palazzo Chigi for the elusive “spending review” and both forced to give up the assignment due to the impossibility of completing it. And in the meantime “I pay”.
– Perotti points out that, amid the jubilation of many, between 2020 and 2021, due to the pandemic, we have made spending commitments for 400 billion euros. I repeat: 400 billion euros. And the problem is not so much the figure, but where it ended up: in Conte’s bonuses, totally useless; and in the Superbonus, which will also have boosted the real estate market but also thanks to…. In fact, if you flood a sector with free money, everyone is capable of restarting it. It’s more complicated to explain how we will repay that unhealthy investment. And above all why, faced with a monstrous figure of that type, we are now not even able to raise 5 billion for healthcare spending.
– Phrase to frame, again by Perotti: cutting public spending “is an impossible mission. Healthcare cannot be cut. Pensions, with the demographic crisis, cannot be further compressed. Ditto for public salaries. There would be hundreds of tax breaks, but there’s everything inside. In the past, to create confusion it was enough to hypothesize the cutting of benefits for the veterinarian. Think about the fate of Sangiuliano: he tried to cut off the rainy subsidies for the cinema.” Curtain.
– The Pope defines “hitmen” doctors who perform abortions and Chiara Appendino he asks Meloni to “react”. And why, excuse me? The Pope is a foreign sovereign, religious leader, who expressed this opinion (logical, if crude, from a Catholic perspective) in a pastoral visit to Belgium. So, tell us: what’s up with Italy?
– The Press discovers hot water: doctors and nurses from Verbania and Domodossola prefer to “earn more” by going into private practice or to Switzerland. Amazing, huh!?
– The center-left unites by signing a bill to “work less for equal pay”. He says Nicholas Fratoianni: “It is used to redistribute work” and to “give back time to everyone”. Live to work or work to live. Fig. But then Fratoianni has to explain to us: 1) who bears the costs of the extra workers that the companies will have to hire to cover the same production hours; 2) why is this law necessary if an important gentleman had explained to us that with the Euro we would have worked one day less and earned more…
– A ruling by the EU Court of Justice establishes that i products veganseven if they do not contain meat, they can still be called “steak” and “sausage”. Not surprising. After all, in the world in which one can perceive oneself as male or female without distinction every other day, imagine if a vegan cannot convince himself to eat a “steak” of humus.
– Next up (martyr). After Canfora, who we will talk about shortly, and Antonio Scurati, now it is the turn of Donatella Di Pierantonionew winner of the Strega award. To summarize: I had written a monologue for Rai (again What will it be by Serena Bortone), but then I declared two days before the vote in Abruzzo that I would vote for the left-wing candidate and they censored me. “Mom, ugh, they’re being rude to me”. The truth, Rai explains, is that it was Bortone herself who “censored” Di Pierantonio given that the imprudent indication of the vote a few days before the opening of the polls “violated what was expressly provided for by the company rules regarding equal conditions ”. Still from a gender perspective: here there are a lot of people who “perceive” themselves as censored even without biological evidence.
– Plot twist: Georgie Melons he dismissed the complaint against Luciano Camphor. Do you remember? The philologist-bad-teacher had gone to a school in Bari to talk about Ukraine and had seen fit to define Meloni as a “neo-Nazi at heart”. To be precise: Confora said that Meloni was a “poor girl” who “being a neo-Nazi at heart, immediately sided with the Ukrainian neo-Nazis”. The rest is known history: Meloni sues for defamation, asks for 20 thousand euros in compensation and Canfora is sent to trial. From there began the election of martyr operation and the request to the prime minister not to drag him to court. Now the Camphor-boys have been settled: now that the lawsuit is no longer there, how will he maintain his martyr aura? What a mess…
– The Dad he confesses that sometimes he too doesn’t have time to pray. Human. Very human. But are we sure that Peter’s successor really has to say these things? Doesn’t that end up giving the faithful a justification? Like “but if he doesn’t have time to be the Pope, imagine if I can”…
– The EU decides to proceed with tariffs on Chinese electric cars which a Commission investigation deems “spoiled” by massive state aid from Beijing. First note: Germany, against import taxes, was defeated. Which matters a lot politically. Second note: it is paradoxical that Europe manages to create the problem and then try to resolve its effects with tariffs. Let me explain. The race towards electric it is not a choice of the “market”, devoted to green or lower costs, but rather by an ideological imposition: by 2035 in the EU only electric cars must be sold. European companies have adapted and started investing, but with huge delays compared to competitors in the USA and China and in fact our electric ones cost twice as much. Thus we find ourselves in the paradoxical situation in which consumers are asked (or rather: forced) to buy green cars and, not being able to aim for an old-fashioned small car with an internal combustion engine, there will be two options: to sell out with a “native” vehicle at battery, or turn to the cheaper Chinese ones. What do you think the market trend will be? Obviously, long live the made in China with relative certain death of our industry.
Hence the “patch” of the Commission which, after having created the problem with its own hands, introduces duties to raise the price of vehicles arriving from Beijing. Fig. But what is the result for the consumer? Who won’t be able to buy low-priced electric cars.