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One half of the government has trounced the other in Abruzzo and Sardinia.
Salvini has avoided a trial thanks to a vote by the M5S.
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Italy’s deputy prime minister remains immune from prosecution because his coalition partners, the Five Star Movement, let members vote online to uphold it.
Emmanuel Macron has pulled his ambassador out of Rome in a rage.
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When two founding partners of the European Union are at loggerheads, something is very wrong.
The Five Star Movement’s Luigi Di Maio and founder Beppe Grillo won big in the March 4 elections.
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Italy has stagnated for more than two decades, yet its politicians seem hardly aware of the source of the problem, let alone how to fix it.
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Italy’s political future hangs in the balance – will it see another chaotic grand coalition, or take an anti-EU populist step into the unknown?