{"id":27335,"date":"2011-07-18T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/_the_sweet_poison_of_berlusconi-italys_downward_spiral_accelerates\/"},"modified":"2011-07-18T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T22:00:12","slug":"_the_sweet_poison_of_berlusconi-italys_downward_spiral_accelerates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27335","title":{"rendered":"(Der Spiegel) The Sweet Poison of Berlusconi&#8211;Italy&#39;s Downward Spiral Accelerates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The financial markets see the Italian premier as a burden on Italy and, by remaining in office, he is unsettling investors, writes the Financial Times. Some of Berlusconi&#8217;s own supporters now fear that the prime minister and his scandals could irretrievably drive the country into a debt spiral. &#8220;Everyone is afraid of the contradictions between what Berlusconi needs for political survival and what the markets need,&#8221; says columnist Francesco Sisci.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your government is harming Italy,&#8221; opposition politician Anna Finocchiaro told the premier last Thursday. &#8220;This great country would be much better off without you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/0,1518,775092,00.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The financial markets see the Italian premier as a burden on Italy and, by remaining in office, he is unsettling investors, writes the Financial Times. Some of Berlusconi&#8217;s own supporters now fear that the prime minister and his scandals could<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27335\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}