Michele Barbero is an Italian journalist currently based in Paris, where he works as an assistant producer for France 24-English. His main focuses are international politics and political behaviour. He tweets@MicheleBarbero.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Walking on a thin lineThe game of Italian politics has never been so dangerous and high-stakes. Party leaders are willing to play.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUseful fantasiesWhy Northern Ireland had to pretend the IRA was gone for good.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy's shy president?Matteo Renzi has won the battle to have his first choice candidate elected as Italy's new President of the Republic....
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Mafia is northern Italy's problem tooA recent judicial sentence confirms that clan-based organised crime has extended its influence to northern Italy.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy: back to the future?PM Matteo Renzi triumphed over Beppe Grillo and Berlusconi in the last European elections. Does this reshuffling of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Can Alexis Tsipras save the Italian left?The oft-divided Italian radical left has united behind the star of the Greek left, Alexis Tsipras, in the European...