And here by us too, the spectre of elections is often bandied about opportunistically by highlighting the risk of an increase in the spread should the anti-Euro movements be successful. In essence, this is much the same plan that King George used to impose the Monti Technical Government's austerity programme on us back in 2011 without holding any election. It remains incredible to think that the mainstream media here in Italy have gone from totally ignoring the Euro as the main cause of the Italians' problems to now warning us about the impossibility and the cost of exiting the Euro. And what about what is involved? Shouldn't we talk about the cost and what is involved in staying in the Euro? Are we now, after seven years of crisis, actually going to think about this Plan B? The very same establishment television newsmen that ignored the issue of the Euro in their sitting rooms from their lofty position of ignorance are now suddenly taking cues from any European geopolitical event to warn us about what the cost of exiting the Euro would be. That's why they first totally avoided doing any detailed analysis of the Scottish referendum and then they jumped on the bandwagon of the Russian crisis in order to frighten the Italians (very soon they will note that the 'autonomy of the Russian Central Bank will allow Russia to come out of it stronger than before.)
Now it's Greece's turn to be used as the scarecrow according to the following theory: if the probable victory of Syriza, with his request for debt restructuring, has already led to serious instability in Greece, you can just imagine what would happen in the Euro-exit scenario pursued by the M5S via their request for a referendum.

Italy and Greece out of the Euro!
The reality is precisely that the Greek situation confirms the opportuneness of Italy exiting from the Euro. How can Tsipras even think of reviving his country while keeping the Euro? How does he think he is going to set interest rates in his country without first giving Greece back its monetary sovereignty? In 2015 Greece will have to come up with debt repayments amounting to some 15 billion Euro to private investors (mainly foreign banks). Tsipras is preparing to win the election based on a promise to repudiate the debt and the austerity programme but without getting out of the Euro. This is a contradiction, indeed it would be suicide. Repudiating the debt will not resolve Greece's problems, the only way to make their problems more manageable would be to reinstate monetary sovereignty. That is why the markets have responded badly, because Tsipras' `Euro confused' recipe, so heralded by the Italian left-wing during the European election campaign, is the worst thing the country could hope for. Repudiating the debt without editing the Euro would mean souring the relationships with the country's European partners without having any say in the matter and above all without having the monetary tools with which to actively manage the crisis.
Exiting the Euro is not an end in itself, but is merely a way to regain the monetary sovereignty that is essential in terms of reviving the economy. This is why the fears of capital flight and lack of liquidity from the BCE to our banks in the event of our exit from the Euro are unfounded. Italy's exit from the Euro must be accompanied by three essential measures to prevent possible market chaos:
1. Abolition of the `separation' between the Italian Central Bank and the Treasury.
2. Introduction of portfolio limits that specify a minimum amount of government bonds that must be held by our banks.
3. Restrictions on all capital outflow from the Country.

Single monetary sovereignty out the door.
With all due respect to Andreatta, who conceived the beginning of Italy's suicide back in 1908 with the introduction of separation, the exit from the Euro will first of all put the neo-liberalist dogma of Central Bank independence up for discussion. Abolishing the separation will mean monetising the deficit, in other words enabling the Italian Central Bank, no longer independent but at the service of government's economic policies, to print money and support public investments that support demand. A more or less coordinated exit backed by the aforesaid measures would make Italy totally impervious to external affairs. The liquidity currently supplied by the BCE would go to the Italian Central Bank and above all the latter would be responsible for monetising the deficit. The BCE is awaited at the door of quantitative easing by a hostile Germany, as hostile as all creditor countries generally are, waiting to see the BCE purchase peripheral public debt, seeing that 30% of the BCE's capital is German. So the latest rumours about a compromise see QE being handled by National central banks with their respective governments standing surety in the event of insolvency. But what is the point of this? Once again we are allowing that which we just threw out the door to creep back in through the window. In 2012, right in the midst of the sovereign debt crisis and with our spread at almost 700, the BCE came up with the LTRO, very low interest loans to our banks, so as to enable the banks to buy up Long-term Government Bonds that the BCE and Italian Central Bank could not by in terms of the Charter. Now they want to come up with QE that is not actually QE because it would be brought in leaving each member country bearing the risk of insolvency without the risk being shared in any way. Once again, what is the point of this? Rather give us back our own Central Bank, our own seignorage and our own currency and we will know exactly how to get it through to our families and how to make our public debt sustainable. For our foreign creditors, devaluation of our new Lira and exiting from the Euro is equivalent to restructuring our debt, something that Tsipras refuses to understand.
Exiting the Euro and debt restructurings, there's simply no other way.