Italy Is Failing Its Next Generation
Italians need to stop blaming outsiders and start owning up to their country’s shortcomings.
Italians need to stop blaming outsiders and start owning up to their country’s shortcomings.
The ruling Five Star Movement and League agree to rein in spending.
The commission can’t force Italy to change its spending plan, but its objections do matter.
The government’s spending plan would see Italy’s debt and deficit rise rather than fall.
The Five Star Movement and League shelve proposals for a universal basic income and flat tax.
Donald Trump and Giuseppe Conte speak the same language but don’t have a lot in common.
The Five Star Movement and League limit the use of temporary work contracts.
The League is up in the polls, despite having done little yet to address Italy’s immigration crisis.
The country’s new government argues that a trade pact with Canada doesn’t do enough to protect agricultural products.
Italy’s economic north-south divide has become political.
Mountainous regions are generally at a disadvantage. Technology could change that.
Spain isn’t Italy. The next government in Madrid will almost certainly be more pro-European.
The parties are now willing to accept a finance minister who doesn’t have a secret plan for leaving the euro.
Carlo Cottarelli is asked to lead a technocratic government until new elections can be held.
The European Commission’s advice to France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.