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    • Thursday, 5 September, 2019
      Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
      Italy’s new experiment in populist technocracy

      The Five Star-PD coalition will not deliver the old-school politics the country needs

    • Monday, 2 April, 2018
      Italian politics
      Media moralist rails against Five Star-League deal for Italy

      Editor of ‘Il Fatto Quotidiano’ warns anti-establishment party over coalition choices

    • Monday, 5 March, 2018
      Italian politics
      Italy anti-establishment parties make big gains in election

      Projections suggest hung parliament as Five Star and Northern League gain strength

    • Monday, 5 March, 2018
      The FT ViewItalian politics
      Resurgent populists threaten Italian reforms

      The hope is they will moderate their policies to protect the recovery

    • Thursday, 8 February, 2018
      Bill Emmott
      Five Star struggles to be Italy’s agent of change

      The party lacks any cohesive team that looks like a credible government in waiting

    • Thursday, 2 November, 2017
      News in-depthItalian politics
      Italy’s Berlusconi back on campaign trail ahead of Sicily poll

      Media mogul seeks to regain dominance after a long hiatus in the political wilderness

    • Sunday, 17 September, 2017
      FT SeriesThe Europopulists
      Five Star Movement: the unanswered questions about Italy’s populist party

      Davide Casaleggio is gatekeeper of the party yet it discloses little about his role or his company

    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2017
      Instant InsightTony Barber
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      Italy’s former leader seeks to rebuild a rightwing coalition, writes Tony Barber

    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2017
      Global InsightJames Politi
      Italy’s right rehearses for potential return to centre stage

      Left and populists ahead in polls but Berlusconi waits in wings for comeback

    • Monday, 12 June, 2017
      Italian politics
      Italy’s Five Star suffers setback in municipal polls

      Populists defeated in leader Beppe Grillo’s native Genoa and in other large cities

    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2017
      Italian politics
      Italy’s Five Star faces test on leader’s home turf

      Genoa vote provides gauge of Grillo’s standing as chance rises of early election

    • Friday, 2 June, 2017
      News in-depthItalian politics
      Talk of early election adds to Italian jitters

      Five Star’s bright prospects heighten anxiety about political and financial instability

    • Monday, 15 May, 2017
      Italian politics
      Italian populism unnerves investors in the eurozone

      Support for the single currency falls as political and economic troubles increase

    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2017
      FT SeriesThe Europopulists
      Macron win earns Europe a reprieve from the forces of populism

      Centrist’s election victory was a relief to Brussels but the political extremes still threaten the establishment

    • Monday, 8 May, 2017
      French presidential election
      Italy’s Grillo slams ‘dummies’ and ‘slaves’ after Macron win
    • Sunday, 9 April, 2017
      Wolfgang Münchau
      Euro exit for Italy or France would be a trauma

      The ERM exit showed that monetary regime changes are as complex as a war

    • Friday, 31 March, 2017
      Italian politics5 min
      Five Star Movement winning over Sicily

      The fight against poverty is turning into one of Italy's most critical battlegrounds

    • Thursday, 30 March, 2017
      News in-depthThe Big Read
      Five Star leads the way in Italian poverty politics

      Populist movement’s €17bn income plan for residents is well-placed to woo voters in struggling regions

    • Sunday, 26 February, 2017
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      Centrist populists are by no means risk-free

      Their inevitable failure can lead to the rise of the very worst type of extremists

    • Friday, 17 February, 2017
      Italian politics
      Travails of Rome’s Five Star mayor dent party’s national ambitions

      Resignations and scandal leave comic’s populist insurgency with little to laugh about

    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2017
      Italian politics
      Five Star Movement: the protest party explained in charts

      Direct democracy and rejection of binary politics brings success but stunts maturity

    • Monday, 9 January, 2017
      World
      Five Star backtracks on quitting Eurosceptic parliamentary bloc

      Beppe Grillo’s populist Italian party rejected by liberal MEP grouping

    • Monday, 9 January, 2017
      World
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    • Monday, 9 January, 2017
      World
      Beppe Grillo bids farewell to Farage parliamentary alliance
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