ROME (AP) Italy’s president on Sunday vetoed a euro-skeptic choice for economy minister, foiling a bid by populists to form Italy’s next government and increasing the prospects of a quick return to the polls, 12 weeks after national elections produced a political impasse.
The pair of rival populists who had agreed to forge a governing coalition together exploded in anger after President Sergio Mattarella announced at the Quirinal presidential palace that he was refusing to appoint a minister whose views could rattle already nervous markets and drive up Italy’s already staggeringly high debt.
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Luigi Di Maio, who was determined to see his anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, Parliament’s largest party, achieve government power for the first time, raised the specter of a move to impeach Mattarella, who, as head of state, must give his approval to any new government.
(Di mercoledì 7 aprile 2021)
Russia is moving
from
Europe, wrote Maurizio Molinari the Italian newspaper’s editor in chief, eds on Repubblica. The operations of
Russian agents on
European territory are certainly nothing new, but they are part of a worrying context: the progressive deterioration of relations between Moscow and
Europe.
In the midst of the pandemic, German counterintelligence has disrupted various
Russian attempts to infiltrate the Bundestag, which has been the target of cyberattacks. And attempts are multiplying to steal confidential NATO information in the countries which
Russia considers more “penetrable.”
By emphasizing a modestly-sized intelligence operation Italy wanted to send a signal on the matter, both to Moscow and .
From Sputnik to Ukraine, will Russia drift away from Europe?
Di Marta Dassù
Vladimir Putin has his phase 3 too, and it entails slowly and inexorably moving away from the West. The Chinese hug awaits him, but he got it all wrong. From vaccines to espionage, a European road map to keep the guard up with Moscow. An analysis by Marta Dassù, Senior Advisor at the Aspen Institute and member of the task force on the future of NATO, as well as former Deputy Foreign Minister
Russia is moving away from Europe, wrote
Maurizio Molinari [the Italian newspaper’s editor in chief,
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