We cut off the respirator to a "European Union" which has very little of the Union

(by John Blackeye) I don't know how orthodox it is to present oneself individually to the Italian people to explain what is going to be done, even if the President of the Council of Ministers is present on TV. The President of the United States himself presents himself to the nation surrounded by a plethora of collaborators but here, in Italy, where the "heroes of the moment" are those in the hospital wards and behind the supermarket checkouts, someone continues to attract all of himself the attention of the national community to dictate monotonous monologues to an entire nation.

Faced with a pandemic that is demonstrating an impact on the population of ten percent of those infected, at least if the proportion between swabs carried out and positive found is made, the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, presented himself for the umpteenth time by providing statistical numbers and hypothetical evolutionary scenarios that should serve to keep the population good in a socio-economic context in which the rules of the game are dictating a lethal virus.

It also happens that during these monologues which are reassuring for the premier's tone of voice but which do not correspond to real security, given that even today they have reached Creator almost five hundred Italians, there is an opportunity to do politics or to turn everything into an electoral rally.

The premier has in fact directly attacked the two major representatives of the opposition in Parliament, accusing them of political assaults on his address and distortion of reality. Yet it seemed that in the last eighty years the role of the political opposition in Italy, being unable to do anything else, was just that. It may be that the Prime Minister began to misrepresent roles or to interpret his own as that of an undisputed monarch who does not like the criticisms of his opponents.

In all this theater which, however, in its fourth episode, has not yet changed the drama of the situation in Italy by a comma, given that after months there are still no masks for the population, Europe has also been mentioned , as an institution, trying for the umpteenth time to suggest that everything is going well and that everything that happens is under control and the result of government calculations and plans.

Instead, the reverse is clear. Europe, the great terminally ill, continues to manifest all its symptoms of a pathology that has no cure. The Netherlands opposes the eurobonds requested by Italy, France and Spain. Germany calls our Head of Government to convince him to make up his mind for yet another denial against Italian demands. Italian representatives at the top of the European institutions are not invited to meetings where decisions are made. The tower of Babel, faced with so much confusion, looks like a silent and cold mountain sanctuary.

The whole European Union shows itself to the world as an organization in disagreement that has only the name of union since every nation, even in emergency cases like the current one, joins the ranks to maintain national positions ignoring the cries for help from who really needs to be able to rely on a collaboration system.

It is not understood, in fact, to what the European Union needs. If he cannot intervene to the rescue of those who, in dramatic moments like this, ask for help, what is it for? Greece could provide us with the answer if it were not committed to tackling the virus on the one hand and the economic and financial devastation to which the European Union itself brought it.

The answer is crystal clear in the minds of all Italians. An anachronistic monster of bureaucracy and streams of interest no longer has reason to exist and the Italian government's efforts to suggest that everything is going well are useless.

Nothing is going well. Everyone has noticed, both the leaders of politics and the attentive people, not very distracted in this period by the football games and the cult programs of Sunday afternoon.

We have heard this terminology on the lips of many doctors in recent months that it has now become public knowledge but perhaps the time has really come, after the pandemic, to disconnect the respirator to a United Europe which serves absolutely nothing except to subject sovereign states under the aegis of a few enlightened ones.

We cut off the respirator to a "European Union" which has very little of the Union