Professor Daniele Albertazzi

Italy's Court of Auditors has now rejected Salvini's plans for the construction of the controversial bridge connecting Sicily to the mainland across the Strait of Messina.

That depends more on whether the League is essential to create a governing majority after the next election than the size of the party contingent in Parliament then

Clearly very embarassing that their signature policies (sending asylum seekers to Albania, building the bridge) are all on hold right now.

Making a reference to his recent trial (following the decision to stop asylum seekers at sea under Conte I), Salvini has told the press that: "I did not stop when I had to defend Italy's border and I will not stop now"

Major blow to the project, temporarily halting the €13.5 billion effort championed by the League. Meloni has already attacked the magistrates for allegedly "interfering" with the govt's political decisions.

Italy's Court of Auditors has now rejected Salvini's plans for the construction of the controversial bridge connecting Sicily to the mainland across the Strait of Messina.

Nothing to see here. Just the faction led by General Vannacci, the League's deputy leader (now clashing openly with the leghista old guard that still dreams of federalism) organising a meeting on "Remigration" alongside several international guests from various organisations.

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"We are conducting a comprehensive review of all these proposals, watch this space!"

"Yes Madam, and this is your one-way ticket to Nigeria, your plane leaves tomorrow morning".

Meanwhile, in the UK, nobody seems to have explained to the Conservative leader Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch that - as these ideas keep spreading - she will be the first on the list to be sent "back".

One of the speakers at the event in Tuscany, who has double nationality, volunteered to be "sent back to Romania" if caught committing a crime...

Everywhere you look you find yet another example of the normalisation of extreme right thinking.

Hard to even keep up.

If this sounds pretty similar to what Katie Lam, a Conservative MP and Shadow Home Office Minister, proposed just a few days ago to ensure the UK is a "mostly culturally coherent group of people"... it is because it is.

But some of us have been around for long enough to remember that the term originates from the extreme right, and involves the compulsory, large-scale removal of people, including legal residents and usually even citizens, to their country of "racial ancestry."

If you ask the leghisti within Vannacci's faction they will tell you that "remigration" is about sending "back" people who commit serious crimes after gaining Italian citizenship. Reminiscent of many campaigns by the Swiss SVP...

This takes place in the region of Tuscany where in the regional elections of a few days ago the League led by Vannacci gained an impressive 4.4% of the vote...

Nothing to see here. Just the faction led by General Vannacci, the League's deputy leader (now clashing openly with the leghista old guard that still dreams of federalism) organising a meeting on "Remigration" alongside several international guests from various organisations.

Indeed

Until a few years ago they would have convened the focus groups and looked at survey data BEFORE making statements like this, but what do I know

First the announcement and then the "internal review".

Ok.

Shaping the political agenda and influencing elections ain't that cheap after all...

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doi.org/10.1017/S175... 🍿

I have found examples of adverts Sarah Pochin would approve of.

From the US Government, who else...

I have found examples of adverts Sarah Pochin would approve of.

From the US Government, who else...

Any analysis of the future trajectory of the US as a global power needs to take the cohesion of American state and society into account

The idea that -just because you lead the executive for 4 years- you are allowed to demolish buildings/gardens/monuments that have such historical significance and belong to all citizens... is frankly just bonkers.

Inside the mind of MAGA: a conversation with Steve Bannon | The Economist Insider Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist, has a worldview that contradicts that of The Economist. He’s a populist nationalist; this publication is classically liberal. But liberalism demands ...

Classic populist argument by someone who knows one thing or two about populist argumentation...

If "The American People" want Trump in the White House for a third term, a way around the 22nd Amendment will be found...

www.economist.com/insider/the-...

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Yes, of course Bannon seeks to remain relevant & grab the headlines...

Yet we have been warned.

Inside the mind of MAGA: a conversation with Steve Bannon | The Economist Insider Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist, has a worldview that contradicts that of The Economist. He’s a populist nationalist; this publication is classically liberal. But liberalism demands ...

Classic populist argument by someone who knows one thing or two about populist argumentation...

If "The American People" want Trump in the White House for a third term, a way around the 22nd Amendment will be found...

www.economist.com/insider/the-...