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                                                                                                                                 threat at the moment comes from the
                                                                                                                                 Five Star Movement, the stability of
                                                                                                                                 the European Union and the Euro are
                                                                                                                                 threatened.

DOSSIER  Renato Brunetta, coordinator of the parliamentary group Forza Italia of Silvio                                          A QUESTION WHICH DESERVES
         Berlusconi                                                                                                              MORE THAN AN ANSWER
         “The Italians” will answer with ‘No’ and they will drive Matteo Renzi out!“
                                                                                                                                    The constitutional reforms in Italy,
                                                                                              photo: (http://www.ilgiornale.it)  for abandoning the symmetrical bi-
                                                                                                                                 cameral parliament, are an essential
         Beppe Grillo, founder and leader of the Five Star Movement                                                              need for the reform of the political
         “If we win the power, we will organize a referendum to leave the European monetary                                      system, which should respond to the
         union.”                                                                                                                 new challenges for more efficient and
                                                                                                                                 more stable rule. The quick changes
                                                                                        photo: (https://upload.wikimedia.org)    and the need of quick and efficient
                                                                                                                                 adjustment are a basis for monitoring
                                        duced, so today, slightly more than                                                      the new social trends. Still, due to im-
                                        two months after the referendum ex-                                                      maturity, and according to many due
                                        pression, the surveys show advantage                                                     to political greed and ambition, the
                                        of the option “No” and according to                                                      attempt for constitutional reforms
                                        the numerous analyses it is more and                                                     now already exceeds the issue of the
                                        more certain that if a major shock                                                       Italian constitutional order and trans-
                                        does not happen, the referendum will                                                     forms into an issue of the total social
                                        not be successful. Renzi’s support has                                                   and political order in Italy. The Euro-
                                        already reduced by more than a third,                                                    pean Union still cannot stabilize from
                                        and the possible unsuccessfulness of                                                     the political earthquake from caused
                                        the referendum not only will ruin the                                                    by the successfulness of Brexit, so the
                                        career of the young reformer, but also                                                   Italian problem is increasingly bur-
                                        it will essentially shake the political                                                  dening the pro-integrative European
                                        order of Italy. In addition, taking into                                                 political elites. Matteo Renzi already
                                        consideration that the major political                                                   withdrew his attitude on abandon-
                                                                                                                                 ing the prime minister position if the
                                                                                                                                 referendum is unsuccessful admitting
                                                                                                                                 that this was a mistake, however his
                                                                                                                                 withdrawal cannot fully delete the
                                                                                                                                 consequences of his voluntarism. The
                                                                                                                                 Italian scene expects the culmination
                                                                                                                                 of December 4, when the referendum
                                                                                                                                 is scheduled, however the political
                                                                                                                                 turbulences already burden the Ital-
                                                                                                                                 ian and the European public. If this is
                                                                                                                                 supplemented by the new Eurosceptic
                                                                                                                                 movements in Poland, Spain, Greece,
                                                                                                                                 Hungary etc., which are dominant
                                                                                                                                 somewhere, and somewhere they
                                                                                                                                 are in a political momentum, then
                                                                                                                                 one can conclude that the European
                                                                                                                                 Union is experiencing the most dif-
                                                                                                                                 ficult challenges after its integration
                                                                                                                                 and stability.

                                                                                                                                                                          Miroslav Sazdovski

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