Italy’s hard-right government is starting to look more radical as Georgia Meloni indulges in cultural and economic populism.
Admirers of Meloni and her Brothers of Italy (FdI) party like to describe them as “Latin conservatives”—no more radical than, say, Britain’s Tories.
But the comparison ignores significant differences which have burst to the surface in recent weeks, prompting open splits in the governing coalition.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/08/24/italys-hard-right-government-is-starting-to-look-more-radical
#Italy #Meloni #HardRight #FarRight #Populism
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