{"id":6907,"date":"2013-03-08T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T21:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=6907"},"modified":"2013-03-08T16:05:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T21:05:11","slug":"far-from-being-a-disaster-the-results-of-the-italian-election-could-be-a-turning-point-for-italy-and-the-eurozone-europp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/08\/far-from-being-a-disaster-the-results-of-the-italian-election-could-be-a-turning-point-for-italy-and-the-eurozone-europp\/","title":{"rendered":"Far from being a disaster, the results of the Italian election could be a turning point for Italy and the Eurozone. &#124; EUROPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Hopkin argues that austerity has failed to produce results in Southern Europe and calls for European leaders to reconsider their approach:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color:#ddddff;\">\n<p>&#8230;..perhaps the most important result of the election is that it will likely prove to be a turning point in the way in which the European Union deals with the debt crisis in the South. As was the case in Greece, the attempt to impose technocratic rule on a debtor nation to implement austerity and reform has been a political and economic disaster&#8230;&#8230; The Monti experiment produced no clear economic gains and has been decisively rejected at the polls. It would be reckless in the extreme of Europe\u2019s leaders not to reconsider their approach.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/europpblog\/2013\/02\/27\/italy-election-eurozone\/'>Far from being a disaster, the results of the Italian election could be a turning point for Italy and the Eurozone. | EUROPP<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Hopkin argues that austerity has failed to produce results in Southern Europe and calls for European leaders to reconsider their approach: &#8230;..perhaps the most important result of the election is that it will likely prove to be a turning point in the way in which the European Union deals with the debt crisis in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/08\/far-from-being-a-disaster-the-results-of-the-italian-election-could-be-a-turning-point-for-italy-and-the-eurozone-europp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Far from being a disaster, the results of the Italian election could be a turning point for Italy and the Eurozone. &#124; 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