{"id":6595,"date":"2016-07-14T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6595"},"modified":"2016-07-14T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T15:43:14","slug":"italy-bring-euro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2016\/07\/14\/italy-bring-euro\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Italy Bring Down the Euro?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2016\/07\/14\/italy-bring-euro\/italy_banking_crisis\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6596\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6596\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/italy_banking_crisis.jpg\" alt=\"italy_banking_crisis\" width=\"600\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/italy_banking_crisis.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/italy_banking_crisis-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The rise of the eurosceptic Five Star Movement, now the most popular political party in Italy, has potentially far-reaching implications for the European Union.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Could Italy Bring Down the Euro?<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/8468\/italy-euro\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | July 14, 2016<\/p>\n<p>The eurosceptic Five Star Movement (M5S) has overtaken Prime Minister Matteo Renzi\u2019s Democratic Party (PD) in several opinion polls and is now the most popular political party in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The poll results represent a significant shift in Italy\u2019s political landscape and have potentially far-reaching implications for the future of the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>M5S, which would win national elections if they were held today, has called for a referendum on whether Italy, which is facing the collapse of its banking system, should keep the euro, the single currency of the European Union, or bring back the Italian lira.<\/p>\n<p>A move by Italy \u2014 the third-largest economy in the eurozone \u2014 to abandon the euro could strike a potentially fatal blow to the currency and to the bloc itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/8468\/italy-euro\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rise of the eurosceptic Five Star Movement, now the most popular political party in Italy, has potentially far-reaching implications for the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100,157],"tags":[203,204,130,129,185],"class_list":["post-6595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-union","category-european-union-european-union","tag-euro","tag-euro-crisis","tag-european-integration-2","tag-european-union-2","tag-italy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Could Italy Bring Down the Euro? 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