Italy Update

CNN reports the IMF bureaucrat Italy's President had asked to form a government turned it down. He has said the job should go to the candidate (Giuseppe Conti) named by the coalition of the League and the 5Star parties and formerly turned down by the President.

This means the odd situation we noted on Tuesday is "old news" and the popular will has finally prevailed. Italy, which is the first stop for most illegal immigrants from Africa, will be a much less welcoming place under this new government.

(Matteo) Salvini, who promised during the election campaign to expel half a million illegal immigrants from Italy, is Italy's new interior minister.

(Eurosceptic Paolo)Savona will enter the government as minister for European affairs.

N.B., "interior minister" means top cop, "minister for European affairs" handles relations with the EU. Italy will be fun to watch during the next year, it would seem. Perhaps their policies will resemble those of Hungary; Italians too are fed up with being overrun by transients and illegal immigrants.