{"id":1371,"date":"2012-01-14T15:05:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T14:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.istitutobrunofranchetti.edu.it\/giornalino\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2020-11-02T15:22:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:22:27","slug":"euro-in-or-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.istitutobrunofranchetti.edu.it\/giornalino\/euro-in-or-out\/","title":{"rendered":"EURO: IN OR OUT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:20px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/old.istitutobrunofranchetti.edu.it\/giornalino\/euro-in-or-out\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"button_count\" width=\"50\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"tahoma\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1372\" title=\"Euros\" src=\"https:\/\/old.istitutobrunofranchetti.edu.it\/giornalino\/wp-content\/250px-Euro_coins_and_banknotes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><\/strong><strong>In ancient Greece agora, like the Roman forum, was the ideal meeting place to talk politics<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<em>Our 4 and 5-graders join \u00abagora\u00bb to discuss the future of the euro.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Alessandro and Filippo have two reasons to opt out.<\/li>\n<li>Gianmarco and Luca remain undecided.<\/li>\n<li>Danio, Nicole and Riccardo think the euro is the only safe choice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>EURO OUT!<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Alessandro and Filippo<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In our opinion Italy should choose to be Euro out like the UK.<br \/>\nWe think it would be better like this because in that way Italy\u2019s finances wouldn\u2019t be influenced by the crisis of other countries like Greece.<br \/>\nWe, Italians, would then be the only reason of our economic growth or downgrade and so it would be easier for us to sort out the problem of our huge public debt.<br \/>\nAnother reason to leave the Eurozone is that prices went up when the common currency was introduced.<br \/>\nThe situation we are in, right now, is partially due to the euro crisis but, obviously, it\u2019s not the only reason because we\u2019re in a global crisis that started as a financial crisis in the US in 2008 and now it\u2019s impacting the economy of most European countries.<br \/>\nRegarding Italian economy the situation is quite complex considering that we have a huge sovereign debt (greater than our GDP) and the real economy is not growing, with increasing unemployment especially among younger people and in the south of Italy.<br \/>\nAt present our Government is trying to define and apply measures to allow our country to overcome financial instability and to restart our economic growth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>UNDECIDED<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Luca<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m still undecided about the opportunity for Italy to remain a euro country. The past few months have proved how the European Union is still fragile and I&#8217;m worried about what would happen if Italy decided to leave The Union. The global financial crisis has put to the test the structures of our countries and the entire world is trying to fight back the biggest economic depression since 1929. From the economical point of view I still believe that\u00a0 the best solution is staying in the Union at present, but\u00a0 in my personal opinion there are some key-points of the euro-project that won&#8217;t make Italy a better country. First of all I think cosmopolitanism will destroy the different cultural identities. Making Europe one big country will mean using only one language and as a consequence we will lose the plurality of the languages spoken today, along with national costumes and traditions. I appreciate the European intervention since it&#8217;s limited to the economic sphere but I still believe in the value of the self-determination of nations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>UNDECIDED<\/strong><br \/>\nby Gianmarco<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I remain undecided, too, because if we opt out, the European Union would be divided, the European market would be difficult to access and with the loss of the single currency all the member states of the Union would lose confidence in each other. On the other hand\u00a0 it is true that the European\u00a0 crisis is especially due to the bankruptcy of some European countries like Greece an Portugal. In this hard situation all the governments have to introduce economic reforms to save the European and international balance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>EURO IN!<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Danio<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now the best choice for our country is probably to stay in the European Union. Even though the euro is one of the reasons of our crisis we need to stay in the E.U. Otherwise I can\u2019t imagine a future of progress for the Italian economy. Alone we couldn\u2019t withstand the competition of the new economic powers like China. However, the situation is dramatic for the E.U. and it will get worse&#8230; after Portugal and Greece we could be the next to fail, and\u00a0 Italy&#8217;s bankruptcy would be much more dangerous for\u00a0 Europe than\u00a0 Greece&#8217;s; but leaving the eurozone is not the solution! Let\u2019s suppose that Italy would leave the euro and go back to the lira: the exchange rate would probably be 1 to 1, which means that the salaries would decrease. Also, the import would become more expensive. I think that, even if leaving the Euro could help us to survive the crisis, that\u2019s not the right decision\u00a0 for our future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>EURO IN!<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Nicole<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am \u201ceuro in\u201d because Italy would have failed if it hadn&#8217;t been in the European Union. Italy is deep in debt and it is likely to go bankrupt soon. In fact Italy has one of the largest sovereign debts in the world and markets are worried it may be the next victim in the spreading eurozone debt crisis due to its poor economic growth and domestic political tension. The monetary policy of the European\u00a0 Union is making a rescue operation, buying the Italian public debt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>EURO IN!<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Riccardo<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think that Italy should remain within\u00a0 \u201cEuroland\u201d because losing a stable currency like the euro\u00a0 would be a disaster. The old \u201clira\u201d would be depreciated giving citizens less purchasing power. The solution is to stay in the Eurozone. So, let&#8217;s get rid of incompetent politicians and keep up the European Union looking not only at eurobonds but at setting up a true united Europe, with a common fiscal and economical policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ancient Greece agora, like the Roman forum, was the ideal meeting place to talk politics. Our 4 and 5-graders join \u00abagora\u00bb to discuss the future of the euro. Alessandro and Filippo have two reasons to opt out. Gianmarco and Luca remain undecided. Danio, Nicole and Riccardo think the euro is the only safe choice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.istitutobrunofranchetti.edu.it\/giornalino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.istitutobrunofranchetti.edu.it\/giornalino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.istitutobrunofranchetti.edu.it\/giornalino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.istitutobrunofranchetti.edu.it\/giornalino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.istitutobrunofranchetti.edu.it\/giornalino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/old.istitutobrunofranchetti.edu.it\/giornalino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/old.istitutobrunofranchetti.edu.it\/giornalino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.istitutobrunofranchetti.edu.it\/giornalino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.istitutobrunofranchetti.edu.it\/giornalino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.istitutobrunofranchetti.edu.it\/giornalino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}