Foreign Policy as Seen by the New Governing Centre-Right Coalition in Italy
Foreign Policy as Seen by the New Governing Centre-Right Coalition in Italy

Author(s): Łukasz Maślanka, Melchior Szczepanik
Subject(s): Governance, Economic policy, International relations/trade, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Italy; foreign policy; governance; EU; NATO;
Summary/Abstract: Although the right-wing coalition that won the Italian parliamentary elections on 25 September includes parties previously declaring Eurosceptic ideas or rejecting the transatlantic partnership, the joint programme statement implies support for Italy’s membership of the EU and NATO. In European politics, the priority will be to seek EU support to combat economic problems and to ease the demands for speeding up public debt reduction. The differing foreign policy visions of the coalition parties, which were covered up during the campaign, may in time become a hotbed of conflict between them.

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