There are words and memories that hurt in Germany. Those written on March 31 by the former Italian Minister of Economic Development, Carlo Calenda, in a column from the big German conservative daily FAZ , are among them. This liberal former member of the pro-European governments Renzi and Gentiloni, invited Berlin to "remember how a large country must behave in an emergency" , giving him this comparison: "In 1953 in London, twenty-one countries agreed to Germany to halve its debt, and spread out the repayments to avoid default. " During this conference on war reparations, Italy had notably allowed a country bled by the Second World War, to settle its debts, accumulated over 40 years.
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"Italian fury"
An article in the Spiegel devoted to "Italian fury against Germany" remains one of the most consulted on the weekly's website, where one reads this chilling comment from an internet user on the peninsula: "They leave us
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