Italian Referendum Result: A Headache for Rome, or for Brussels?

”It’s cold in Europe. In Italy it’s dark…” Osip Mandelshtam From the dim and distant days ... ... precise, the Italian Senate rather than the Roman one of old — that Prime Minister Matteo Renzi pitted himself in the 4 December referendum. He was proposing that the Senate change from an influential directly elected... ... der Bellen over Norbert Hofer, the far-right Freedom Party’s candidate, in the Austrian presidential election looks more like a one-off exception to the rule than...