It gets tiresome, constantly having to wonder whether the princes in charge of Europe, namely the heads of state or government and all of their commensal ministers, are sowing the seeds of populism and other forms of extremism on purpose. This time, it’s Italy’s turn (see EUROPE 11974).
To be quite clear about it, Italy’s political classes need no lessons from anybody when it comes to unstable and unsound governance. You don’t need me to tell you that in Italy, as in other places,...