* * * We are living through the greatest public health and economic crisis in recent history. In Italy, as in many other countries, doctors and nurses have been placed under unprecedented pressure. Thanks to their commitment, in the most difficult of conditions, even more dire consequences have been averted.
Given the unsustainable economic policies, risk premia on the government bonds of the debt-ridden countries should never have fallen to the German level after the introduction of the euro. The economies in question are now in an adjustment process, which is all the more difficult because action was not taken at an earlier stage.