Sarkozy Describes ‘How We Dumped Berlusconi’
So, you think you live in sovereign countries? Think again if you are in the EU. Look at how they got rid of a popular Italian PM-- a told by someone who served as a hitman in that job!
Aug. 23, 2023 (EIRNS)—If one believes the narrative of “democracies” against “autocracies,” then the first place of autocracies is occupied by the EU. It was known that the EU toppled the Italian government in 2011, to replace it with the techno-fascist government of Mario Monti. A piece of evidence, made public by former Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti, was the famous letter signed by the respectively incumbent and the incoming ECB Presidents Jean-Claude Trichet and Mario Draghi. Now, more incriminating evidence has been admitted by one of the perpetrators, then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Sarkozy might have become more enlightened recently (see his attitude on the Ukrainian war), but in his book Le temps des combats (The Time of Combat), just published in France, Sarkozy reveals that he and Germany’s then-Chancellor Angela Merkel brutally confronted democratically elected Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in November 2011, at the G20 summit in Cannes, telling him he had to go. Advance copies of the book given to the press have drawn the attention of Italian journalists to the relevant passages.
Corriere della Sera quotes from Sarkozy’s own reconstruction of events starting from April 26, 2011, when he promoted the candidacy of Mario Draghi as ECB president. “Draghi was competent, open and friendly,” Sarkozy writes.
Sarkozy then gives the markets’ version of the Italian debt crisis that year, claiming that after “rescuing” Greece, now it was the turn of “rescuing the third Eurozone economy: Italy.”
Look at the 2011 G20 summit in Cannes in November, just one month after the assassination of Qaddafi in the Sarkozy/NATO-led assault on Libya:
“Angela Merkel and I decided to summon Berlusconi to convince him to take more measures to calm the ongoing storm. Berlusconi started to explain that we did not understand there were no risks on the international markets, because the Italian government debt was in the hands of Italians. He wanted to create more debt to put on the shoulders of his compatriots only. All this was quite delirious.
“There was a moment of great tension among us, when I had to explain to him that he himself was Italy’s problem! Angela and I were convinced that he had become the risk premium the country had to pay to owners of Treasury notes. We sincerely thought that the situation would be less dramatic without him and his pathetic behavior….
“The hour was grave. We had to sacrifice Papandreou (then Greek Prime minister) and Berlusconi to contain the tsunami … the markets understood that we wanted Berlusconi’s resignation. It was cruel but necessary.”
Sarkozy’s book will certainly create havoc in Italy. Certainly, it helps to open the eyes of many. That is the EU, baby.
