Italy: a nation unable to unleash its talent

I found an opinion article on the American news CNN written by Marco Vicenzino (and international affairs commentator and conference speaker) about the actual political situation of Italy related to the global economy and the crisis of the Euro in the European Union. 

Here's the link: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/10/opinion/italy-berlusconi-marco-vicenzino/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

In some ways I agree with his opinion. For example, he says that Berlusconi's credibility is damaged because of the past and he cannot recover it now, even now that he is about to resign.

Another of his basic ideas is that Italy is generally a very conservative country: it's becoming a nation of pensioners, ruled by pensioners for the sake of pensioners. Even when we look at the national football team we'll see that almost all the players are around 40 years old. So Italian people don't like changes. With this point of view it makes more sense that the Italian population chooses such an irresponsible person like Berlusconi another time. And it's also a fact that the famous Italian mafia still exists and a lot of people are still pressured by them.

To resume, Italy should and has to change a lot of things in their politics to not end up like Greece or Ireland. In fact, the European Union should try to act as a union and change something in the organization to solve the big problems it has.

5 words I've learnt + translation (German):

spoil - Ausbeute

tutelage - Vormundschaft

struggle - kämpfen

to revoke - widerrufen

to emerge - auftauchen

Corpse Bride

"Corpse Bride" is a stop motion film (the scenes of the film are taken picture by picture, when we see all the pictures quickly in a row the seem to be one single animation) directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson.
The protagonist is Victor Van Dort who is forced by his parents to marry Victoria Everglot. The two don't know each other, although they seem to have some feelings when they meet for first time. At the wedding Victor is not able to pronounce well his vows and everything ends in a disaster. Later, Victor wants to practice his wedding vows in a forest and when he finally says them well and puts the ring on a piece of wood that seems like a hand, Emily appears. Emily is a dead girl who was killed by a man before her wedding and since then she is looking for someone who wants to marry her. She takes Victor into her world, the world of the dead people. To return into his own world, Victor says to Emily that he wants to present her to his parents...
I think it's a very funny film and I also like Tim Burton's style very much. I've seen the film once in Spanish and I have to admit that watching it in the original language is much better. Because of the appearence and the song parts someone could think it's a film for kids but that's absolutely not true. I fully recommend this film to everybody.