Transatlantico

– di Andrew Spannaus – Con l’arrivo del nuovo Governo M5S-Pd, l’Italia archivia l’esperienza populista dell’ultimo anno, segnando un cambiamento significativo nello scenario non solo nazionale ma anche europeo e transatlantico. L’unico governo europeo fatto solo da forze outsider, cioè senza il coinvolgimento dei grandi partiti tradizionali e nel segno della sfida all’Unione europea non […]

– by Andrew Spannaus – A meeting with Russians, allegations of corruption, and a call for a leading politician to resign.  Russiagate has come to Italy. A representative of the League — the right-wing anti-establishment party now part of the country’s governing coalition — is alleged to have floated a scheme for his party to receive […]

Italy caused a political firestorm in mid-March when it announced that it would be joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative by signing a memorandum of understanding during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Rome from March 21 to 23. As the first G-7 country to accept a formal agreement to participate in the initiative, also […]

The Italian government of Giuseppe Conte, whose EU-critical policies are driven by the leaders of the two coalition partners, and Deputy Prime Ministers, Luigi Di Maio of the Five Star Movement (M5S) and Matteo Salvini of the League, has decided to openly challenge EU budget rules. When in mid-September Economics Minister Giovanni Tria initially set […]