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Europe's protest parties on the march

Press quote (The Guardian)
Charles Grant, Simon Tilford
01 March 2013

"Voters now associate structural reforms with slump, rising unemployment and social stress," said Charles Grant and Simon Tilford of the CER in a paper published on Friday. "The Berlin-Brussels-Frankfurt consensus on austerity that Monti's government [pursued] has discredited the very reforms that are needed to boost the Italian economy."