The second part of the European semester and the “legacy” issue. If we want to think ill, the willingness to postpone a hot topic as youth unemployment emerges. Crisis’ hairpin turns are nothing but finished and within the institutional framework there is a lack of ideas about youth future that wouldn’t be really unpopular. At this stage they don’t have the capability, nor the willingness to face the massive problem of youth unemployed, or of those that access only occasionally income opportunities. Then Renzi has well decided to open the youth “chapter” at the end of his semester: he hopes to see in the meantime some improvement, but he will have the opportunity to hand off as an heritage (the famous “legacy”) eventual hot potatoes to his successors to the EU presidency in any case.

So don’t problems of public order exist? We are not accustomed to deceive ourselves, nor to think that social movements are stronger than what’s real. Nonetheless newspaper are ossessively repeating issues connected to security during the summit, whilst the Turin police headquarters deny likewise obsessively this possibility, sometimes with bother. We are fulfilled by the usual Democrat senator Esposito that, with its normal hatred against social struggles, on the contrary rats that there was great concern about demonstration and the widespread, deep discontent harboring in the Turinese metropolis. Who knows if Renzi would be happy about such statements? The man from Florence is allergic to criticism and has yet to cultivate his image of nationalist saviour: at the moment it is based only on promises, fear and hopes, but it has yet to cash in a concrete vote (more than the European one) in order to secure his stability inside Italian parliament. Starting the European semester with a summit about youth unemployment in Turin (the northern Italy poorest city, marked by the NoTav movement and mobilizations such as the 9^th December) would not have been the best viaticum for his image, in Italy as well as in Europe. Even more so for a summit that would have lasted 24 hours, in an atmosphere of siege, that would have been a pure political runway where any concrete solutions would have the chance to emerge, not even profitable on a purely mediatic level. Last note: Turin’s mayor Fassino, already chastised for the Italy-Israel summit, has again to hang his head, trying to look in agreement with the decision made by those that count more than him, probably without even being consulted… let’s not keep shooting on the red cross.

(In support to the legitimacy of our doubts, it is enough to compare Numa’s article in La Stampa’s local news section and Alessandro Barbera’s one on the national edition in order to read different “political” needs to manage this news. Where the cops’ telltale needs to confirm Turin police headquarter’s and Home Affair Minister’s chain of command’s strength (“security alarm is out of the question!”), the colleague writing on the national edition has a more detached glaze and admits that some political and security-management problem would have been likely to arise).

At this stage our daily political work in our territories continues, in order to cumulate strength and increase the opposition against pauperising politics that we are superimposed. During autumn the summit could show back in Turin and we will be even more ready to make hear the voice of those who are not represented in these institutions; or they could decide to trench in Brussels, a place that is relatively secure for them, yet to the price of showing the increasing detachment between institutions and broad portions of society.

Obviously, if these news will be confirmed, the mobilization will default. As self-organised political realities that organised the 31^st assembly, we still confirm a broader meeting with all the comrades for Sunday 22^th June, 2pm, at the University of Turin. It could be the occasion for a more detached confrontation about the upcoming autumn, the resistance to the “House Plan” and the NoTav summer of struggles that will start in July in Val Susa.