Something Has Snapped in Italy’s Stormy Relationship With Europe
There’s talk of an unprecedented wave of anger toward the European Union in the very city where the bloc was born in 1957.
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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.