50 : EU Pimp Mattarella Starts Italian Political Crisis
It's easy to get mad.Especially over the burning issues surrounding the European Union.So.let's get really mad. Around 3 months ago ,the Italian General Election saw the ineluctable rise in democratic popularity of M5S and Lega. These two albeit apparently antithetical ideological formations sharing many common bonds; most notably an abrasive oppositional stance vis a vis the EU and the euro currency,unrestricted mass immigration and a desire to end EU/ECB/ IMF/Troika imposed Austerity. The astounding electoral successes of M5S and Lega paralleled the broadly similar anti-EU,anti-globalist unrestricted freedom of movement driven national successes of what are now,supposedly pejoratively described as populist parties in a number of EU satrapies. Austria,Germany,France,Czechia,Netherlands,Hungary etc. These aren't simply the a "movement" these are irreversible tectonic shifts in civil society and national polities all across Europe. It's no longer a ques...