A lack of help with the influx of refugees has turned Italians towards anti-EU populism. The EU has a few months to undo the damage
The likelihood that a populist party will head the next Italian government, formed after new elections in the autumn, is sending shockwaves through Europe. Once again, the European Union is facing a mortal threat – the status quo is under siege from the unstoppable rise of populism, and shadows of Europe’s darkest past are looming over the continent.
Commentators have been speaking of (western) Europe’s “first populist government”, while some have even gone so far as to liken the coalition between the “red” Five Star Movement (M5S) and the “brown” League that was set to take power before the intervention of president Sergio Mattarella, to the Stalin-Hitler pact of the 1930s.
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