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By Alessandra Migliaccio, Patrick Donahue, and Joost Akkermans

January 24, 2019 at 11:33 AM UTC

Updated on

January 24, 2019 at 1:39 PM UTC

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Italy has been picking public fights with France and Germany. In Davos, its government got a dressing down from European colleagues.

Many did not take kindly to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s attack on Brussels and its institutions from the podium at the World Economic Forum, especially after his deputies took turns at making barbed comments about Italy’s closest trading partners.