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Civ 6 least warlike4/14/2023 They worry that Meloni will “disrupt the policy process in Brussels.” They worry that she will “gum up the works.” Charles Kupchan at the Council on Foreign Relations: “The direction of political momentum is changing. It is interesting to listen to the think tank inhabitants who reflect the Western orthodoxy as they consider Meloni’s rise to power. Whether or not she intends to do so, Meloni raises the question of the E.U.’s long-term coherence. The others at the moment are Poland and Hungary, but the Poles and Hungarians are post–Berlin Wall members Italy is Core Europe, inner circle. now has another voice that will speak out of national interests in the name of voters. Meloni may speak more softly than before on these questions, but it is a leopard-and-spots question: The E.U. She no longer proposes to pull Italy out of the euro, as she once did.īut the E.U.’s prevalent neoliberalism and the austerity policies that reflect it are another matter. with NATO, which she once spoke against, and she will go along, however reluctantly, opportunistically, briefly, or all three, with E.U. Meloni already signals she will moderate some of the positions that won her the support of voters. It is the euroscepticism Meloni shares with her partners that most distresses political elites on both sides of the Atlantic. This is not to be dismissed as a turn in European politics, but I do not think it is what now has Brussels and the policy cliques in Western capitals quaking. You read a lot about the far-right character of Fratelli Italia and its coalition partners. members, notably but not only the strict, neoliberal limits it sets on budgets and public debt as proportions of gross domestic product. Most of all, they are vociferously against the dictates Brussels imposes on E.U. They are critical of the sanctions regime imposed on Russia and question the E.U.’s support for the Kyiv regime. They are adamantly anti-immigration and oppose any kind of open door: It’s Italy for Italians as Meloni, Salvini, and Berlusconi see it. Meloni’s coalition government is expected to include two variations on the theme-the Liga, Matteo Salvini’s nativist operation, and Forza Italia, the party led by the man with nine political lives, Silvio Berlusconi. Fratelli Italia’s political bloodlines run back to the remnants of Mussolini’s Fascists. It reminds me of those eight balls children used to play with: Roll it around and a surprise message appears through a little window from the dark within. I have to marvel at Italian political culture. Then we will have, as in the primary school exercise books, a picture in outline of things as they are. These developments are not so disparate as they may at first appear. What does any of these three news events have to do with any other? I am pleased you asked. ![]() That makes four new facts on the ground for the Kyiv regime and its Western supporters, for which Washington ought to answer. pension funds caught with their pants around their knees, the Bank of England was forced to intervene Wednesday to protect the economy against the prime minister’s self-evident recklessness.įollowing referendums in eastern and southern Ukraine this week, Moscow announced Thursday that the four regions where they were held will be formally reintegrated into the Russian Federation by way of treaties to be signed at the Kremlin Friday. With the pound hitting record lows against the dollar and U.K. When the Italian Senate names party leader Giorgia Meloni premier at the end of October, as is widely expected, Italy will be the first founding member of the European Union to be governed by a vigorously nationalist coalition.īritain’s financial markets-stocks, bonds, currency-swooned into something close to chaos this week in response to Liz Truss’s plans to reduce taxes by ₤45 billion, $48 billion, with no provision to fund the cuts and no apparent thought to the inflationary effects of this policy. Last Sunday Italian voters went to the polls and backed a populist party of extreme-right persuasions, Fratelli Italia, Brothers of Italy, by a wide margin. We approach the end of pretend, in my read. ![]() Its lessons this past week could scarcely be more plainly indicative of the trouble we in the West are in, as those purporting to lead us wander into a future the color of an October dusk.Ī terrible clarity is suddenly upon us. ![]() We are but weeks into the autumn, and already the new season has something important to tell us. By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost
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