Will Italy be Permitted to Implement a Universal Basic Income? Just Because People Voted for it?

Yesterday, the EU rejected the Italian government’s proposed budget because of its existing huge national debt.

Ah, Italy. Is there anywhere in the world where there is more of a disconnect between the vitality, beauty and attitude of a country and its people, and the inflexibility, chaos and decline of its politics and government?

And is the current regime in Rome under Giuseppe Conte the latest expression of this conundrum, or a radical reaction to it? Something of both, perhaps.After years of austerity since the financial crash, and sluggish growth before that, Italy has a government composed of two parties new […]

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