Italy’s Democratic Party (PD), the exact equivalent of Labour in Britain, is in total disarray. It came second in the 4 March general election, way behind first-time winners Five Star: scoring 19 percent against 33 percent. Skewered. Utterly embarrassing; yet hardly surprising. PD got an astounding 40 percent in the 2014 EU elections. Now we […]
Alessio Colonnelli
Alessio Colonnelli is a freelance writer on Europe; minority rights and regional autonomies; political dissent; and the state of social democracy.