Ah, Meloni. Remember the coverage a year and a half ago? The thread here was titled “Trouble Brewing in Europe”
On top of the war in Ukraine, soaring energy prices and a looming recession, Europe now has to contend with an [Italian far-right coalition government] led by [Giorgia Meloni]’s post-fascist Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy).
The new coalition government – which consists of Fratelli d’Italia together with two other far-right eurosceptic groups, Matteo Salvini’s nationalist League and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia – won more than 44 per cent of the vote, the highest percentage of votes recorded by extreme right-wing parties in Western Europe since 1945.
The big worry in Brussels, however, [is that Italy will fracture the fragile cohesion of the eurozone and force the region into a dangerous replay] of the disastrous debt crisis that played out between 2010 and 2012.
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