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Italy's Populists Stand Alone as Angering EU May Backfire
In their first two weeks in power, Italy’s populist leaders sparked a dispute with France over immigration and threatened to scupper a landmark European Union trade pact with Canada. It’s hardly the way to make friends with European partners in key deciding positions when Italy seeks approval for the big-spending budget plan it will submit to Brussels in four months. The way Italy’s upstart politicians are antagonizing the EU raises echoes of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his then-finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, in their early days in power in 2015: picking fights on multiple fronts, inflaming ... (full story)
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