28-10-2018, 03:43 AM
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Thousands protest conditions and infrastructure in Rome
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46003670Ms Raggi took control of Rome in 2016 for the Five Star Movement (M5S), which formed a national coalition government earlier this year.
Her popularity has fallen after failing to address the indebted city's issues.
On Saturday, demonstrators gathered waving the plastic orange netting that authorities use to cordon off areas of damaged roads, dangerous pavements and fallen trees.
Other problems that the city faces include rats and wild boar roaming the streets and poor transport services - some 20 buses have reportedly caught fire this year alone.
The protest follows the collapse of an escalator on one of the main metro stations, which injured more than 20 people earlier this week.
28-10-2018, 10:25 AM
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Re: Thousands protest conditions and infrastructure in Rome
Originally Posted by Omah
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46003670Rats, boars, potholes and burning buses - sounds a bit apocalyptic to me .....
We and thanks to Maggie got over it...... hope they can
28-10-2018, 12:10 PM
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Re: Thousands protest conditions and infrastructure in Rome
Italy is on the verge of bankruptsy ."Root problems
Over the past decade or more, wide swaths of Italian industry have become uncompetitive on global markets, which are ever more flooded with high-quality, low-cost goods produced in Asia, the Americas, or elsewhere in Europe.
Italy, with relatively high wages and other costs and an inflexible, excessive bureaucracy, is not a low-cost production location. In past decades, before it adopted the euro in 2002, Italy was able to compensate for this by devaluing its previous currency, the lira. But now, yoked as it is to the euro — which is among the hardest of hard currencies — the devaluation gambit is no longer available. Painful internal adjustment of euro-denominated wages and prices are the only way for the country's businesses to regain competitiveness."
28-10-2018, 01:42 PM
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Re: Thousands protest conditions and infrastructure in Rome
I can see Italy being next to leave the EU the way things are going. It seems that a lot of people there now want to see the Lira returned.It's hard to believe that a proud country like Italy, a founding member of the EU, should now be in the position of being bullied and threatened by the very same.
As I have said countless times, the EU one size fits all economy has been a disaster!.
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