Venetian Protesters Demand Independence From Rome; Polls Show 70% Favor Independence [View all]

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“The situation here is almost explosive, so today we have thousands of people who have gathered in front of the regional government and we’re going to present to them a resolution signed by thousands of participants to have a referendum for independence,” Chairman of the separatist Indipendenza Veneta Party, Lodovico Pizzati, told RT.

“The main reason is economic. We are in a situation worse than a colony because the tax rate in Italy is the highest the world and our services are extremely poor. We have 20 billion euros missing from our regional resources each year and that’s unbearable,” Pizzati said.

Read more at http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/10/venetian-protesters-demand-independence.html#ySPbzjclDuXljmxr.99