Una delle più importanti fondazioni statunitensi, la conservatrice Heritage Foundation, è preoccupata per il regime change in Italia. Un'analisi spietata, che non nasconde il punto di vista vicino alle posizioni conservatrici e liberali, e che tuttavia si impone per il suo equilibrio. la Heritage, d'altronde, non mancò di criticare il governo Berlusconi per lo scivolamento dell'Italia nella classifica dell'Index of Economic Freedom che ogni anno la fondazione stila assieme al Wall Street Journal (in Italia questa classifica è elaborata assieme all'Istituto Bruno Leoni e viene puntualmente ripresa dalle riviste Emporion e Ideazione). Per la segnalazione del paper della Heritage, si ringrazia Camillo. Qui di seguito, alcuni estratti.
Sulla guerra al terrorismo: "As a European Union official, Prodi forcefully backed the Spanish government’s decision to pull out of Iraq following the Madrid bombings, a move viewed by many in Europe and the United States as a cowardly capitulation to terrorism. As Commission president, Prodi declared that “with this decision, Spain has fallen into line with our position—the divide that prevented Europe from having a common position is being overcome".
Sulle riforme economiche: "A Prodi government, held political hostage by the Communists and powerful trade union interests, will likely not have the political will, vision, or ability to implement the market reforms necessary to reverse Italy’s economic decline. Prodi’s pledge to reverse laws introduced by the Berlusconi government to increase competitiveness in the labor market will only further weaken the Italian economy".
La conclusione: "The likely defeat of the charismatic Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s longest-serving prime minister since the 1940s, brings to an end a five-year period of relative political stability, marred by economic decline, in a country that has suffered through nearly 60 governments since World War II. His socialist successor, once described by the somber Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as “the chief bore” of EU summits and derided by his critics as a glorified “undertaker” is now tasked with bringing to life an Italian economy that is lying on its deathbed. Prodi’s likely short-lived coalition will almost certainly find it an impossible challenge. What Italy needs is an economic revolution of liberal market reforms, rather than more empty rhetoric and state intervention. Unfortunately a Prodi administration is likely to veer heavily toward the latter.
