"Berlusconi has resigned. God Exists!"

My friend Andrea Vogt took this image a moment ago...

Italians in Bologna, where Vogt lives, are cautiously celebrating the fall of Silvio Berlusconi. Scandal could not bring him down. Politics could not bring him down. Only economics could do this impressive trick. And the Eurozone is about one thing: economics. Writes Vogt:

Observing the Italian reaction of Silvio's resignation after 17 years in power one of the first things I heard from a jubilant young man celebrating in Bologna's Piazza Maggiore was "Berlusconi has resigned. Dio Esiste! (God Exists!)

In Bologna, the heart of Italy's left, the scene was celebratory, but cautiously so. Berlusconi, after all, was "the devil we know."

For more information, check out Vogt's tweets.

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Charles Mudede

Charles Tonderai Mudede, The Stranger’s senior staff writer, is a Zimbabwean-born cultural critic, urbanist, filmmaker, college lecturer, and writer. Mudede collaborated with the director Robinson Devor on three films, two of which, Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance, and one of which, Zoo, screened at Cannes. He has also written for the New York Times, Cinema Scope, Tank Magazine, e-flux, LA Weekly, and C Theory.

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