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How A ‘Refugee Town’ Fell Victim To Italy’s Populist Politics

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Post date January 4, 2020

Manifestation of solidarity to the mayor of Riace Mimmo Lucano on May 11, 2018 Antonio Melita/Pacific Press via ZUMA

Fourteen months ago the progressive mayor of Riace, in Calabria, was arrested. Soon after, many of the refugees he’d help settle pulled up stakes and left.

Tags abandoned, artisanal, controversial, disarray, divided, far, financial, fraud, hospitality, illegal, immigration, italy, mill, oil, olive, policy, refugee, right, textiles, town, trial, village, workshops

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What We Learned From Austria’s Far-Right Experiment

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Post date May 23, 2019

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is done with the far-right party FPÖ Alex Halada/APA Picturedesk/ZUMA

Chancellor Kurz deserves credit for trying to work with the populist FPÖ. But he’s also right to end the relationship in the wake of the damning scandal

Tags austria, crisis, far, nationalism, politics, right

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