President Sergio Mattarella, of Italy, speaking to the media on Sunday. Milan, Italy — This weekend the ship carrying Italy’s first anti-European government, captained by an amateur skipper and manned by a bizarre alliance of two rival populist parties, sank before it even left the harbor . And although it means more turmoil for the country, that’s a good thing.
The League (formerly Northern League), a far-right party, and the Five Star Movement had picked an unknown legal scholar, Giuseppe Conte, as their prime minister, and a euroskeptic economist, Paolo Savona, as finance minister. That was too much for Italy’s […]
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