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Who will save Europe?

The Editorial written today by Corriere della Sera is real fun to read. It shows how a post-Berlusconi Italy might loose its current self-conciousness, which prevents it from taking any relevant position in European politics, and start doing some real effort to appear in the pictures along with Sarkozy and Merkel.
 
Britain's official position is also quite fun. Cameron and Osborne seem to imply that they will support anything coming from Europe that doesn't hurt "the City". They claim that a European Tobin Tax would impact London's financial centre disproportionately and that it would also cause a GDP loss for the whole of Europe. Their reasoning is nothing but funny. Imagine that my country produces some kind of toxic waste that gives me an undecent lot of profit, but every now and then causes the world to have a terrible GDP loss, so others propose that the waste I produce be taxed. Is it reasonable for me to argue that the tax is unfair because it will decrease my profits? Or should I instead admit that producing toxic waste is not good in the first place and I'd better look for something less damaging to make money from?

Europe is now trying to find its way out of the mess. Britain loves to pose as the one innovative and advanced country that really thinks long term, supporting sustainability and caring about climate change. Fine. Those are public goods that need attention. But how about the crucial economic stability public good? In this area Britain is actually trying to make sure that the mess repeats itself sometime soon, as at least in the meantime they make some good profit out of it.

Who will save Europe?