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is occurring something new in Europe: we know how the anti-wind politics, indifference and abstention is crossing national boundaries in the West, but there's news from Germany they do hope for a change of trend.

few days ago, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CDU) Minister of Defence of the government of Angela Merkel has resigned from his post for four years ago, copied and pasted some paragraphs His doctoral thesis from the Internet without citing sources. Guttenberg has resigned not only from the Government, but also as a Member, waived its immunity and ordered that his fee by former minister and former deputy (about € 30,000) goes to the fund for the victims' families of the fallen Germans in Afghanistan.

After the resignation of Minister of thirty-nine, has been active throughout Germany, a movement of people because the same Guttenberg returned to his Grand Coalition government. In a survey of the ARD (German public network), 72% of people interviewed believed that the former minister were to go in his place. Even more spectacular is what happened on Facebook.

The largest social network on the planet was created in a page Guttenberg support that, within a few hours, exceeded half a million members (six-digit number that they dwarf the fan pages of our members, including younger ones, often slightly over one hundred members!).

This is intended to be a strong signal against the than the boorish indifference that leads to criticize institutions for bias. Hopefully soon, the Italian political horizon, can give rise to a civic movement, which starts from the citizens, and recognize the merits of policy actions and government implemented by our directors (they are right, center or left ).

Of course the ground is not conducive to our country: remembered as Marco Castelnuovo on La Stampa a few days ago, "the minister Bondi is taking his son and former husband of the wife, the son of the minister of Russia with the boyfriend come in the AC Brambilla . (...) What do you say? I assume we Zu Guttenberg? ".

mange is similar happened to Seiji Maehara, Japanese foreign minister who yesterday resigned from the government for having received a small restaurant in Kyoto, the sum of 50,000 yen (440 €) as a donation.

Probably the former Japanese Minister will have the same luck of the former German Minister: now his fan page on Facebook has only 24 members!

Virgilio Falco

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