He said: In France, there is obviously a challenge to the EU project. But so far all the parties that want to stay in the EU have had more numbers and votes and France has continued to support it. It is almost unthinkable that France would want to leave because France and Germany are the main drivers, the central axis of the European Union project. Unthinkable! EU dodges chaos as Macron to silence Frexit movement to secure EU project (Image: GETTY)
Emmanuel Macron and pro-EU parties are expected to silence the Frexit movement as they push closer towards their EU project goal according to John Redwood. (Image: GETTY)
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Italy rallied after being hit hard by the pandemic. But it is not out of the woods.
A Bergamo cemetery worker in April (Alex Majoli / Magnum)
In Europe, Italy was hit hardest by the pandemic because it was hit first. Hospitals filled up with patients; one local newspaper was so overwhelmed with obituaries that it published only thumbnail-size ones. The entire country was subject to draconian restrictions, the strictest in the West.
Still, Italy rallied: Infections are now under control, a contact-tracing system is in place, and its economy and borders have reopened, although not to visitors from the United States. Tourist-dependent cities like Rome, Florence, and Venice are still suffering, but Milan, the country’s economic engine, is slowly coming back to life.