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Old December 14th, 2019 #341
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More senators have decided to leave the opportunistic, untrustworthy, backstabbing Five Star Movement which started out as a populist, anti-globalist, anti-establishment party and then sacrificed its principles by forming an unelected coalition government with the corrupt, globalist, jew-controlled Democratic Party:

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No fear of more defections - premier


M5S rocked after three Senators join Salvini's League

(ANSA) - Brussels, December 13 - Premier Giuseppe Conte said Friday that he does not fear any more defections from parties supporting his coalition government after three Senators left the 5-Star Movement (M5S) to join Matteo Salvini's right-wing League. "Absolutely not," Conte told reporters in Brussels when asked if he expected more defections.
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/poli...6073122b9.html
 
Old December 15th, 2019 #342
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https://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...eeef1d49d.html

The bigwigs of the Five Star Movement know very well how harmful this (((ESM reform))) is to the Italian people, and they clearly don’t want to be seen as responsible for it. But the Five Star Movement’s coalition partners of the Democratic Party couldn’t care less about that because they’re fully under the control of despicable globalist jews who have decided that the disgraceful ESM reform must pass at any cost, and this is causing friction in the unelected and extremely unpopular Italian government.
Here's an article from Politico about the disgraceful (((ESM reform))):

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Italy’s government on the brink over EU bailout fund


Just three months in, tensions are high between the uneasy coalition partners.

By Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli 12/4/19, 4:45 AM CET Updated 12/4/19, 1:30 PM CET

ROME — Italy's pro-EU government has a Europe problem.

The coalition — made up of the populist 5Star Movement, the center-left Democratic Party (PD), former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva, and the far-left Free and Equal — is just three months old but might not last the winter, with tensions reaching a peak this week over reform of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the EU's bailout fund for eurozone countries.

The ESM is being revised in order to assign new tasks to the fund, including the introduction of a financial backstop to cope with bank failures. Final agreement on the revisions was expected to happen this month but Italy is set to derail those plans.

Things aren't going to get any easier for the government partners as there are key regional elections next month (in which the PD and the 5Stars are running against each other), there's a complicated budget law to pass by December 31, and the country remains on the EU's watchlist for a potential breach of the bloc's fiscal rules.

The planned overhaul of the ESM didn't seem like a make-or-break matter for the coalition until Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right League, put it at the top of the agenda by accusing Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of supporting a reform that would go against Italy's interests — and the 5Stars sided with Salvini in the fight.
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During an impassioned address to the Italian parliament on Monday, Conte said "there are claims the ESM [reform] will impoverish Italians, that it will benefit German and French banks, that I have signed the treaty in secret, but it is all false and it shows serious ruthlessness in polluting the political debate and undermining the country's institutions."

5Star leader Luigi Di Maio, who is also the foreign minister, looked emotionless as he sat next to the prime minister during the speech. That he didn't clap or even acknowledge Conte, and left before the end of the session, was interpreted by Italian media as another sign of the ongoing tensions between the two.
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The ESM issue has caused splits across the government.

"The ESM is the new propaganda topic for populists who want to drag Italy outside the eurozone ... It's quite frankly pathetic to see the 5Stars desperately running after the League on the topic," said MP Davide Faraone from Italia Viva.
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There's also little agreement on the reasons for Di Maio's sudden realignment with the League. Some pundits reckon he wants to take the party back to its anti-establishment and Euroskeptic roots because the pro-EU alliance with the PD — a long-term 5Star enemy — is further eroding the party's already waning popularity.

Others believe he's trying to save his political career by aligning himself with the League as he tries to fend off multiple calls from within his own party to step down.

5Star MPs are split between the hardliners, such as MP Gianluigi Paragone, who continue to oppose the alliance with the PD, and a left-wing faction that wants a stable political alliance with the Democrats, including at a regional level (something Di Maio strongly opposes).

The only time the PD and the 5Stars have ever run on a joint ticket at regional level the result was a disaster: at the end of October the center-left lost the region of Umbria to Salvini's candidate despite 55 years of uninterrupted rule by the left.

They aren't repeating the experiment in ballots in the regions of Emilia-Romagna and Calabria on January 26. While several PD officials, including Culture Minister Dario Franceschini, were hoping the two governing parties could replicate their alliance throughout the country, others, including Zingaretti, have suggested that it's a bad idea.

The government might not last as long as late January.

The rich northeastern region, which contains the city of Bologna, is Italy's most symbolic center-left stronghold. Losing it to Salvini would almost certainly destroy the coalition government and trigger a general election ...
https://www.politico.eu/article/ital...-bailout-fund/
 
Old December 16th, 2019 #343
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Rome cuts ties with cartoonist over EU, Auschwitz strip


Improta portrayed Brexit as prisoner getting out of death camp



(ANSA) - Rome, December 16 - Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi has revoked a free collaboration with artist Mario Improta following his controversial cartoon comparing the EU to the Auschwitz concentration camp, well-informed sources said Monday.

The mayor spoke on the phone with the cartoonist and asked him to immediately suspend the collaboration, the sources said.

Improta's cartoon represented a smiling man resembling British Prime Minister Boris Johnson waving a British flag as he flees the EU portrayed as the concentration camp.
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...71fee4070.html
 
Old December 17th, 2019 #344
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The illustration, which was subsequently changed by the artist to compare the EU to a toilet,
Okay, a toilet works too. Although personally I prefer the following graphic:



Now that's the Jewropean Jewnion I know.
 
Old December 18th, 2019 #345
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Here's one of countless (((mainstream media))) smear pieces on Matteo Salvini:

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World News December 6, 2019 / 5:21 PM

Half of Italians want 'strongman' in power, survey shows


Angelo Amante

ROME (Reuters) - Almost half of Italians are in favor of having a “strongman” in power who does not care about parliament and elections, a survey showed on Friday, casting doubts on the strength of democracy in a major European nation.

Some 48.2% of people think the government should be led by a Messiah-like leader who does not have to worry about being accountable, the survey by Censis research institute said.

The percentage is higher among poorer and less educated segments of the population, the survey showed, reaching a peak of 67% among respondents it described as working class.


Distrust of politics in Italy has grown in recent years, with far-right parties surging in opinion polls as a chronically stagnant economy has failed to recover ground lost during the global financial crisis.

Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who ruled Italy during the 1920s and 30s, still has support among some hard-right groups, while fascist memorabilia referring to him is still sold freely in some shops and markets.

“I ask Italians to give me full powers to do what we promised to do,” far-right League leader Matteo Salvini said in August when he pulled his party out of the ruling coalition in a failed bid to trigger an early election.

The League’s former ally, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, then formed a government with the center-left Democratic Party, forcing Salvini to go into opposition.

Italy has a long tradition of political instability. Since the end of fascism its governments have lasted just over a year on average and bickering is already frequent in the new, three-month-old coalition.

Polls show the League is Italy’s most popular party, with around 33% of voter support and its hard-right ally Brothers of Italy is on 10%, which means they have a good chance of winning power in the event of a snap election.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-i...-idUSKBN1YA1X5

They're trying to portray Salvini and his supporters as uneducated and dangerous fascists who hate democracy, but the truth is that Salvini is the one who wants an election so that the Italian people can have their say, whereas his opponents are greedy, opportunistic, backstabbing, anti-Italian, anti-democratic, globalist jew-lackeys who are sitting in an unelected and unpopular government that has only given the people taxes, boatloads of rapeugees and welfare for criminals.

Yup, this is what a jewed society looks like, folks. It's like living in Bizarro World where good is bad, white is black, etc.
 
Old February 17th, 2020 #346
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The opportunistic, backstabbing Five Star Movement is falling apart...

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World News January 22, 2020 / 8:00 AM

Italy's Di Maio quits as 5-Star leader in blow to government


Angelo Amante, Gavin Jones

ROME (Reuters) - Luigi Di Maio stepped down on Wednesday as leader of Italy’s co-governing 5-Star movement, as it seeks to stem a wave of defections that threatens the government’s parliamentary majority.

While his decision is not expected to bring down the government, it underscores deep divisions within 5-Star and injects further uncertainty into already fractious relations with its coalition partner, the center-left Democratic Party (PD).
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5-Star won 33% of the vote in a national election in 2018, but since then its popularity has fallen sharply and recent polls put it at around 16%.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-i...-idUSKBN1ZL0M8

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World News January 2, 2020 / 1:20 PM

Italy's 5-Star expels senator further reducing slim government majority


Angelo Amante

ROME (Reuters) - Italy’s ruling anti-establishment 5-Star Movement has expelled a senator from its ranks on disciplinary grounds, in a fresh blow to the government’s already small majority in the upper house of parliament.

The expulsion of Gianluigi Paragone comes less than a month after three 5-Star senators quit the party to join the far-right League opposition group, and will leave the fractious coalition with just a 5-seat majority in the 321-seat Senate.
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The expulsion further highlights the 5-Star’s many problems, with party chief Luigi Di Maio facing criticism over his leadership and allegations from some dissidents of having betrayed the party’s mission to overhaul the institutions.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-i...-idUSKBN1Z10T0

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World News December 25, 2019 / 11:15 PM

Italy education minister resigns over lack of funds for ministry


Gavin Jones

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti told Reuters on Wednesday he had resigned after failing to obtain from the government billions of euros he said were needed to improve the country’s schools and universities.

The resignation is a blow to the embattled government, whose ruling parties are at odds on issues ranging from euro zone reform to migrant rights.

It also underscores the problems of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, Fioramonti’s party, which is trying to reorganize amid widespread internal dissatisfaction with its leader Luigi Di Maio.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-i...-idUSKBN1YT0Q4
 
Old February 19th, 2020 #347
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Here's the umpteenth example of how Italy's jew-controlled Deep State is trying to prevent the country's most popular party from getting elected:

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World News January 16, 2020 / 8:10 PM

Italy's constitutional court rejects League's bid to change electoral law


ROME (Reuters) - Italy’s Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected a request by the hard-right League party to hold a referendum to introduce a first-past-the-post electoral system, triggering the ire of League chief Matteo Salvini and relief in government ranks.

The opposition League is by far Italy’s most popular party, polls show, and its support is heavily concentrated in northern regions.

A first-past-the-post system would have raised the chances of a League-led centre-right bloc winning a big majority at the next election, piling pressure on the struggling government of the 5-Star Movement and the Democratic Party (PD).

The referendum proposed to change the electoral law simply by abolishing the proportional representation (PR) part of the current mixed system, but the court called this an “excessively manipulative” attempt at introducing a new system.

“It is a disgrace, it is the old system that defends itself ... We are sorry that the people are not allowed to decide: this is the return to pre-history of the worst Italian politics,” Salvini wrote on Twitter.

The coalition of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the centre-left PD is currently negotiating to introduce a purely proportional law which would limit the right-wing coalition’s chances of a clear election win.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-i...-idUSKBN1ZF2KU
 
Old February 23rd, 2020 #348
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Italy's globalist, pro-rapeugee, anti-Italian president Sergio Mattarella prostrates himself before his jewish masters:

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Mattarella meets Rome's Jewish community


President recognises 'great contribution' to Italy

(ANSA) - Rome, February 21 - President Sergio Mattarella visited the Great Synagogue of Rome on Friday for an encounter with members of the Jewish community.

The head of State expressed "gratitude to the Roman Jewish community for the contribution it has made to our country's history, culture, civilization, social life and institutions.

"A high level contribution. This diversity enriches our country," he said.
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/202...ef7ae7ace.html

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This diversity enriches our country," he said.
Oh, and speaking of diversity... Chinese savages and their globalist jewish enablers have brought the coronavirus to Italy. As a result, 152 people have been infected, three have died, schools and universities are closed, and cultural and sporting events have been cancelled. I'm writing about it in my other thread about Italy:

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The filthy Chinese savages are now spreading their diseases in Italy:


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...-idUSKBN20F0UI


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...-idUSKCN20G0CQ

This is precisely what Salvini and North Italian governors from his party have been warning the public about, but the jews and their leftist lackeys in Italy's unelected government and crooked media initially dismissed their warnings and attacked them and smeared them as paranoid racists. Well, it looks like the "paranoid racists" were right. Gee, there's a shocker.

(P.S. Yes, the Italian authorities did eventually suspend flights to and from China, but it was too little, too late.)
 
Old February 26th, 2020 #349
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An Italian restaurant owner who shot a burglar has been acquitted thanks to Salvini's new and much-needed self-defense law:

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Restaurateur acquitted in burglar slaying


Shooting in Lodi became test case for new self-defence law



(ANSA) - Lodi, January 24 - A court in Lodi on Friday acquitted a trattoria owner who killed a 32-year-old Romanian burglar after a fight with thieves in 2017.

Mario Cattaneo, 67, from Casaletto Lodigiano, had been charged with culpable excess in self-defence.

Prosecutors had requested a three-year jail term in the 'cause celebre'.
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An original possible murder charge against Cattaneo after the March 25, 2017 incident spurred the rightwing populist League party to hold a rally in Verona to urge parliament to speed passage of a bill expanding the right to self defence against criminals.

Subsequently, when he was interior minister in the last government, League leader Matteo Salvini shepherded a bill establishing rules similar to US stand your ground laws to make excessive self-defence prosecutions harder.
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/202...22792caee.html
 
Old March 1st, 2020 #350
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No need for national unity govt - Conte


PD rules out alliance with Salvini's League

(ANSA) - Rome, February 27 - Premier Giuseppe Conte on Thursday dismissed speculation that his administration could be replaced by a government of national unity to face the coronavirus emergency featuring Matteo Salvini's right-wing League party.

"We are already in a united government," Conte said. Salvini has been highly critical of the government's handling of the coronavirus emergency.

When asked about the League being in a national unity government on Thursday, Salvini said that the party was "in favour of accompanying the country out of the quagmire, in order to accompany it to elections.

"This government team is not fit to handle normality, never mind an emergency," added Salvini
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/pol...f71e18924.html
 
Old March 5th, 2020 #351
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Salvini shrugs off Bossi's criticism


Never stronger in north, decisive in south too says League chief

(ANSA) - Palermo, February 3 - League leader Matteo Salvini on Monday shrugged off criticism from his predecessor Umberto Bossi that the rightwing party was allegedly losing ground because of its transformation under Salvini from a regionalist to a nationalist force.

"I respect his ideas but I won't change mine," said Salvini after former Northern League leader Bossi told la Repubblica daily that "nationalism is making us lose, if you go with the far right you remain alone".

Salvini went on: "the numbers say we've never been as strong as we are now in the regions of the north and with great pride we are also now decisive and present in the south".

Anti-migrant Euroskeptic League leader Salvini suffered a setback when his candidate for Emilia Romagna governor was defeated by the centre right eight days ago.

But the centre right candidate in Calabria, in a coalition led by the League, won out on the same Sunday.

Salvini took over the Northern League from Bossi in 2013 and dropped the 'northern' from its name two years later amid a successful drive to spread its appeal from its heartlands to the rest of the country.

It is now by far Italy's biggest party.
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/pol...85fc06d36.html
 
Old March 29th, 2020 #352
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I have been writing about the coronavirus outbreak in my other thread about Italy, but I'd like to post some updates here as well:

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Coronavirus: Deaths in Italy pass 10,000


Rise of 889 in 24 hours

(ANSA) - Rome, March 27 -The civil protection agency said Saturday that 10,023 people have died with the coronavirus in Italy,after a rise of 889 in the last 24 hours.
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/202...b9f4cd880.html

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WORLD NEWS MARCH 20, 2020

Macron seeks more EU powers as Europe faces coronavirus meltdown


Michel Rose, Gabriela Baczynska

PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron is leading a push for the European Union to acquire more powers to respond in healthcare emergencies, conscious that the EU risks being blamed for the continent’s shortcomings in tackling the coronavirus outbreak.

After a decade in which Brussels has seen a debt crisis and deep internal divisions over migration, the coronavirus pandemic risks delivering an even more powerful blow to European unity, potentially pushing decades of integration into reverse.
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Italy, now the country worst-hit by the virus worldwide, was sharply critical of France and Germany after they initially declined to provide face masks and other equipment to help handle the outbreak. Rome turned to China for help instead, though Germany has since sent 400,000 masks to Italy.

A poll by Monitor Italia last week showed 88% of Italians believe the EU has not done enough to help their country, underscoring how a lack of solidarity can hurt sentiment.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN2172E5

 
Old April 9th, 2020 #353
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Head of EU's top science body quits after Covid-19 response plans get bogged down by Brussels bureaucracy


8 Apr, 2020 12:18 / Updated 1 day ago

The head of EU's main science organization has resigned just months after taking the job. He said both the body and EU leadership failed to adopt a robust science-based approach to the Covid-19 outbreak when one was badly needed.

Professor Mauro Ferrari submitted his resignation to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday, effective immediately. His four-year term ended abruptly just months after starting on January 1. Ferrari said he was "extremely disappointed by the European response to Covid-19," according to the Financial Times, which first reported the news.
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The proposal was rejected by ERC's Scientific Council. Ferrari said he tried to get his ideas implemented through von der Leyen, but the very fact of him working directly with the Commission head "created an internal political thunderstorm."

"The proposal was passed on to different layers of European Commission administration, where I believe it disintegrated upon impact," he said. He lamented a lack of coordination of national policies in response to the crisis and said his experience completely changed his view of the EU, of which he used to be "a fervent supporter."
https://www.rt.com/news/485260-eu-sc...chief-resigns/
 
Old April 16th, 2020 #354
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Europe apologizes to Italy-Von der Leyen


Commission President says EU budget must be recovery mothership

(ANSA) - Brussels, April 16 - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen apologized to Italy on behalf of Europe for its failure to do more to help at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. "It is true that no one was really ready for this. It is also true that too many were not there on time when Italy a needed a helping hand at the very beginning," she said in a speech to the European Parliament.

"And yes, for that, it is right that Europe as a whole offers a heartfelt apology".

She said that, after a bad start, the EU has shown it is capable of solidarity.

"Saying sorry only counts for something if it changes behaviour," she said.

"The truth is that it did not take long before everyone realised that we must protect each other to protect ourselves.

"And the truth is too that Europe has now become the world's beating heart of solidarity.

"The real Europe is standing up, the one that is there for each other when it is needed the most.
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/pol...75cfeb332.html

A pathetic attempt at damage control by the jews and their lackeys who are bleeding Europeans dry and filling their countries with third-world rapists, drug dealers and murderers.
 
Old April 28th, 2020 #355
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Italian Law Professor Warns Lockdown Presents Serious Abuse of Authority


THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D. 27 Apr 2020

ROME — Italian law professor Maria Lucia Di Bitonto has written a stinging legal criticism of Italy’s ongoing national lockdown to stem the spread of the coronavirus, warning of a serious abuse of authority and an effective suspension of the rule of law.

Almost three months after the January 31 publication of the government declaration of a state of emergency related to the spread of COVID-19, “most of the constraints on individual freedoms and on production activities aimed at dealing with the pandemic find their legal justification in decisions of the executive or of regional or peripheral institutions,” Prof. Di Bitonto writes in Milano Finanza.

The absence of legislative actions represents a serious legal and political breach, she states, since “the only source empowered to limit freedoms is the law, a direct emanation of popular sovereignty.”
https://www.breitbart.com/health/202...-of-authority/
 
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