Italian Referendum Result: A Headache for Rome, or for Brussels?
... Hofer But the overall political backdrop against which the referendum was held in Italy is even more important. The Italian referendum came not long after Trump’s win in the USA, and Trump’s victory came after the Brexit vote in Britain. ... ... former Green Party leader Alexander Van 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 a general pattern. The best reading of this ...
08.12.2016