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The Dig: Europe w/ Anton Jäger & Dominik Leusder

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The Italian Left Is Trying to Succeed in the Euro Zone

The Italian right has now committed it would not in peril with its program. The party base in the north consists of these mid-side businesses that have a very close commercial entanglement with german industry. These parties like to use the euro zone as this sort of cudgel or rather the threat of the euro zone to gather populist support but then when it comes to it it's also the source of income and the way they stay in power ultimately so i think one shouldn't take these far-right populists too seriously in terms of their europeanist capitalism.

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