and certainly cannot be generated by ministerial fiat

per capita income in the Mezzogiorno was less than half the average for Italy at the beginning of the 1950s

bolster traditional local relations of clientelist domination

especially with the Historic Compromise (the compromesso storico) already looming in Italy

the whole of the Balkans, which since 1989 has become another unstable glacis of the West European prosperity zone

offered by virtuosi in the art of confidence-building

The rhetorical function of the ‘social dimension’ has now fallen to ‘Europe’ tout court

the Ariadne’s thread of their behaviour

a longing for parochial Kleinstaaterei

if their policies degenerate into improvised and unprincipled crisis management, pettifogging circumvention of the law, and clientelist rewarding of ailing banks for the purchase of government securities at a guaranteed profit