Democracy in recession perfectly black Among the provisions that Brussels la unched on Thursday, according to which the euro

will be divided between countrie s and countries stuck in recession, add missing data to add to the GDP, deficit or unemployment: democratic expectations, because in some countries, democracy w ill stagnate in 2012, while others go into recession. The financial crisis is a wind that carries it all before: the welfare state, labor rights, the euro, gove rnments, a few banks, thousands of businesses and millions of jobs. And now demo cracy, already shivering in Greece and Italy, while in other countries begin to feel the cold is coming. To some extent it makes sense because it fits into the official discourse of crisis: if everything is to cut, reform and adjustment, if out of the crisis is to put scissors to public spending, bring down rights and constitutional change, and no red line worth, why do not we cut also democracy? What prevents an adjustment of the democratic system? There are technocratic gov ernments in Greece and Italy, which make it unnecessary to call new elections, a nd supersede any difference between the parliamentary forces. And for the rest, while not necessary to place a government economist, economic policy directed fr om the ECB and the IMF. And I took the foot of the pot and want to check the cit izenship or think for themselves, it pops. And all praying that the technocracy work, because if the government of the experts also fails, what next? If, despit e everything, the resist and successive parliaments do not validate the twists a nd turns, what will new democratic setting in order to fulfill the holy will of financial power? Is democracy (even if limited) a luxury for good times we can n ot afford a crisis, such as theater festivals, updating pensions or quality of h ospital care? The storm rages regressive. And there is wind, is that they are bl owing.