Italy: ECB chief Lagarde’s visit to Turin met with protesters

Follow us on Telegram: Subscribe to our channel! Dozens of people gathered in downtown Turin on Monday to decry the visit of the President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde. ECB boss arrived at the North Italian city to hold a lecture at the local Carignano theatre, sparking discontent of left-wing demonstrators. “Mario Draghi and Christine Lagarde are two ugly faces of the same medal“, said a protester who lamented that Europe is governed by ’technocratic elements’ rather than ’people who were approved by the population’. Another activist went on to say that the lower classes are ’completely excluded from the politics and economic choices’ in both the Italian and the European governments. The demonstration was supported by local students, protesting Lagarde and Draghi’s ’policies that we the youth pay for as a generation’, a protester commented.