The European Parliament rejected the draft EU budget

An opposing vote by the European Parliament on the draft budget of the EU budget for the period 2014-2020, marked a clear split between the executive and the legislative body of Community continental. The growing protest among the people of southern europe against a policy increasingly based on rigor, which squeezed the incomes and services for the less affluent, significantly impairing the quality of life, has initiated a massive revolt against the traditional parties, generating new subjects marked by protest, which, in part, they see their Europe the cause of this malaise. This phenomenon was followed, exacerbating the situation, in the presence of movements that make the regionality their peculiar element, because of the perception of the European Union, as a body of excessive uniformity and globalization, without the proper respect for local values. These trends more pronounced in the countries of northern Europe, but also present in the south, were the first symptom of malaise in Europe, not perceived as good opportunities, but as a subject of centralizing power, often in the name of great financial institutions. However, the current situation represents an evolution of the previous period to the current crisis, the success of anti-systemic movements, often without concrete proposals, baffles Eurocrats, which, however, fail to find solutions to break the deadlock. In the budget document rejected by Parliament, the governments of the EU countries have agreed that tiring, ultimately dissatisfied all: whether the advocates of rigor to the bitter end, both governments more likely to greater flexibility in spending, so to deal with contingencies and have more room for maneuver on liquidity, to support the economy through expansionary. In the grounds of rejection are precisely the reasons that underlie the protests of squares: the lack of flexibility within the budget chapters, to make transfers to those items of expenditure, that when quotas are most in need, and the lack of freedom to derogate from the appropriations for several years in the same period divided differently over time the total value. In addition, the European Parliament calls for the creation of own resources for the EU, reducing the contributions of individual states. Beyond the cold figures the principles with which he voted against the draft budget shows to intercept the discontent of Europeans, getting more in tune with their bodies. This is an important signal for Europe, also in terms of self-preservation: the distance, now abysmal, between governments and citizens of the respective countries has produced indignation that favored populist movements, basically opposed to the process of European integration . But this process is essential if thought of in the right way, to remain competitive in a globalized world that rewards only the national players with great force, the old continent can not compete on the future if you get split, but even if you insist on a rigor now almost masochistic. The signal of the European Parliament is eloquent in this context: the need for a less rigid must be upheld without delay, on pain of economic stagnation, political and social.