That mischievous bangs of Angela Merkel and the globalization of anti-politics
Angela Merkel has returned to the German newspapers not praised but mocked for what she continues to cost the state for the hairdressers who keep her hair in order and in color. It is a pity that compared to what the current chancellor Olaf Scholz manages to spend (incredibly), it is a question of inertia but above all a pity for the poor democracy, besieged everywhere by this type of controversy. Damato's Scratches
While grappling with the annoying internal and external tensions of the majority on relations with the banks after the taxation of their super profits due to the increase in interest rates, Giorgia Meloni can console herself by witnessing the overtaking that the Germans are making on Italy in the anti-politics. Which begins to cause problems for her too after she has moved from the comfortable opposition to the less comfortable government, indeed to her leadership. And moreover in a long perspective, of a legislature, given the conditions in which his left-wing opponents, or third-party competitors, find themselves.
Angela Merkel, the more or less iron-clad ex-chancellor, returned to the German newspapers not praised but mocked for what she continues to cost the state for the hairdressers who keep her hair in order and in color, starting with that mischievous fringe that contributes to lower her age a bit, especially in combination with the turquoise dress she wore in her latest public appearance, on the occasion of a concert.
Not the too much and also a bit expensive attendance of Putin and his oil suppliers, at the time of power, but the one with the hairdresser, permanent or on duty, man or woman, therefore risks tarnishing the memory of the lady who Berlin has kind of directed the European orchestra for a long time, often outshining the executive commission of the Union in Brussels. In the first two years as ex-chancellor, the lady had the German state spend 55,000 euros on her hair, which continues to finance her. Which are a trifle, for heaven's sake, compared to the million and a half euros that in 2022 alone his successor Olaf Scholz managed to spend on hairdressing, too, although poor in hair, make-up and photographers in tow. But at least he's the acting chancellor. Merkel, on the other hand, should consider herself disarmed.
This other step forward in distrust and even visceral hostility towards politics and those who practice it, even coming from rich Germany, which could even afford certain luxuries with Lutheran permission, will have consoled Piero Fassino in Italy. Who was literally put on the cross, starting with the secretary of his party Elly Schlein, for having supported in the Montecitorio hall, waving the slip, the all in all parsimonious character of the scarce five thousand euros a month that he collects in compensation, or salary. And the rest, off the slip, as much and more?, the critics asked him. To which Fassino, our "golden breadstick", as they tease him in the parliamentary corridors and in the editorial offices of the newspapers, replied by recalling that it is only about benefits or money in transit, intended for collaborators and expenses relating to parliamentary functions.
Poor Fassino. And now poor Merkel. But no one occurs to say "poor democracy" besieged by this type of controversy, fortunately at a level or finally at an international level. They are also the jokes of globalization under the stars: not just the five that Beppe Grillo managed to place in the tricolor firmament, entrusting its management to Giuseppe Conte. Who will also have to feel, even at the cost of disappointing his audience, some impulse of solidarity towards Merkel. From which he managed to get when he was Prime Minister – between one cappuccino and another, or some orange soda, on the occasion of the European summits – that generous community check for the so-called Italian "resilience" that his successors at Palazzo Chigi do not seem able to spend well, and above all on time. Ungrateful or inept who are in the eyes of the prince of Conte's nostalgics at Palazzo Chigi, which is naturally Marco Travaglio, the director of Fatto Quotidiano and author of the thriller titled "Conticidio". Who still yesterday took it out on the bad copying that Meloni allegedly made of her personal and anticipatory proposal to cut the nails of the banks, well before the new interest rates made them grow even more.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/quella-frangetta-birichina-di-angela-merkel-e-la-globalizzazione-dellantipolitica/ on Sat, 12 Aug 2023 05:51:07 +0000.