Commentary sees Greece, Italy as scapegoats for EU's mishandling of euro crisis.

Text of report by Italian popular privately-owned financial newspaper Il Sole-24 Ore website, on 16 November

[Commentary by EU correspondent Adriana Cerretelli: "Stop your crafty games"]

It was very easy and all too convenient to offload the euro crisis first onto Greece's frail shoulders - the perfect culprit with its doctored accounts, sky-high deficit and debt, widespread tax evasion, and more or less non-existent state - and then onto the broad shoulders of Italy, the area's third-largest economy, wanting more in terms of structural reforms than of financial discipline.

Italy is being singled out as the major, if not the sole bearer of responsibility for the single currency's future survival, …