{"id":364601,"date":"2018-06-08T20:36:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T19:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/italys-nationalistic-agenda-reflects-weakening-public-support-for-the-eu\/"},"modified":"2018-06-08T20:36:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T19:36:22","slug":"italys-nationalistic-agenda-reflects-weakening-public-support-for-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/italys-nationalistic-agenda-reflects-weakening-public-support-for-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s Nationalistic Agenda Reflects Weakening Public Support for the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: This article was originally published three days ago, on Tuesday 5 June 2018; but it does give us insight into the current state of Italian politics. It is heartening to see nationalistic, right-wing populism incrementally gain ground across Europe to challenge Brussels\u2019 authority. Is it a universal phenomenon throughout the continent? No, but it is encouraging. We will continue to follow events in Italy as they unfold. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mundilfury\" target=\"_blank\">Mundilfury<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s new government is laying the groundwork to challenge Europe\u2019s financial orthodoxy and immigration rules, setting out a euroskeptic policy agenda in a country where public frustration with the European Union has supplanted once-broad support.<\/p>\n<p>In his inaugural speech\u00a0to Parliament on Tuesday, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said his government would push for a change of the rules underpinning the eurozone to spur growth and cut the country\u2019s massive debt, which he said austerity policies helped worsen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA new wind\u201d is blowing in Italy, said Mr. Conte,\u00a0who heads a government\u00a0supported by the maverick 5 Star Movement and the hard-right League, which have come out strongly against the eurozone\u2019s limits on public spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf populism is listening to the needs of the people, we accept\u201d such a label, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The government on Tuesday won a confidence vote in the Italian Senate, the first of two parliamentary votes of confidence that will fully empower it. The second, in the lower house where the government&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/italys-nationalistic-agenda-reflects-weakening-public-support-for-the-eu\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Note: This article was originally published three days ago, on Tuesday 5 June 2018; but it does give us insight into the current state of Italian politics. It is heartening to see nationalistic, right-wing populism incrementally gain ground across Europe to challenge Brussels\u2019 authority. Is it a universal phenomenon throughout the continent? No, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}