The Italian parliament has adopted yesterday a 20 billons euros austerity plan, which is a set of reactionary measures that will affect violently the Italian people. How freezing wages of workers, making them retire later and increasing indirect taxes can be useful whereas all implementations of this kind of plans everywhere in Europe have proved that it's not a solution to exit the crisis?
The only certainty is that Italian people will suffer and the country will go to recession. Even the employers expect a decrease of 1,6 of the GDP, an explosion of the unemployment rate and the destruction of 800.000 jobs. Just before Christmas, this is a poisoned gift offered by the non-elected Mario Monti and bankers to Italian people. 
The Party of European Left condemns this new attack against people and reasserts that the only way to leave the current dead-end is a European roadmap allowing the public investment to be delivered from the markets caprices and focused on social development and ecological transition. It implies a democratic control of banks and the ECB. Elections must be organised in Italy, as soon as possible, to let the people decide its future.
Party of the European Left
19. December 2011