Italy's Conte Warns Populist Deputies on Talks With Brussels
- Premier says disciplinary measures would threaten sovereignty
- Conte stakes his job on ‘reasonable’ approach to negotiations
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Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has a message for the quarrelsome populists who’ve run Italy’s coalition government over the last year: keep quiet, and let me do the talking.
The government will be finished if Italy can’t make a budget compromise with the European Union, Conte told Corriere della Sera. Without a deal, “we all risk to go home. For sure I would go,” the premier said. The increasingly assertive premier was the focus of Italian media reports on Monday.