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
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