news 'story' hinting that Italy may be next to leave the EU
Something Has Snapped in Italy’s Stormy Relationship With Europe
April 21, 2020
(Bloomberg) – The foundations for the European Union were laid six decades ago in Rome and some officials in the Eternal City are starting to think they might just be seeing the beginning of its breakup.
''After'' Boris Johnson and the Brexiteers laid to rest the carefully cultivated myth of the EU’s irreversibility, europhiles argued that Britain was a special case, an island nation that could never fully commit to the continent. It’s different when Italy turns against you.
The bloc’s third-largest economy has flirted with euroskepticsm before as it railed against budget rules or struggled to cope with successive waves of refugees heading north from Africa. But when Covid-19 struck Lombardy, Italians still expected Europe would come to their aid with no questions asked.
Instead, what they think they got was small print and a cold shoulder.
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