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Mr Salvini, who may be Italy’s next prime minister, blasts Trump missile threats and derides the “chemical weapons” allegations as farcical (automatic translation available)
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@joseph This is also a chess move in his negotiations with the 5Star Movement, which until the other aspiring premier Mr DiMaio came to the forefront a few months ago, was critical of NATO militarism. Now DiMaio is portraying himself as “guarantor” of “good relations” with the EU and NATO; a position that seems to contrast with that of most of his electorate, giving rise to the suspicion that he was “placed” to brake the Italexit wave…
Just to make things simpler, this “moderate” position is the one that Berlusconi’s party, that came in poor second after Salvini in the rightwing coalition, has been trying to adopt in order to secure itself a role as “guarantor” in Brussels with respect to the “populists”….