news ITALEXIT A politician has appeared in Italy who wants to pull the country out of the EU's 'jaws': 'This is a German project' On Thursday, June 23, Gianluigi Paragone founded a party called "No Europa Per l'Italia", ie "No Europe for Italy". Author: JL.Posted: July 24, 2020 8:48 pm Gianluigi Paragone, senator and founder of the No Europe for Italy party Gianluigi Paragone, senator and founder of the No Europe for Italy party Andrea Ronchini, Ronchini Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail RELATED NEWS Gianluigi Paragone OPPONENT OF BRUSSELS The famous Italian senator intends to establish a political movement with a mission to bring Italy out of the EU CONSEQUENCES OF BREXIT Johnson in agony: Nearly half of Scots want to leave Britain, and Welsh are rising The spread of Eurosceptic sentiment in the Union is becoming increasingly apparent. In just over five months, Britain is predicted to end its agony with Brexit without an agreement, thus severing all ties with the bloc and embarking on an independent path. The response to the coronavirus pandemic, during which we have seen uncoordinated actions by countries, and the growing disagreement of states on some issues, especially financial ones, call into question the viability of the bloc at the door of the economic recession. And it is also fertile ground for the birth of new Eurosceptic parties. So one Italian populist senator found inspiration in Brexit and decided to go his own way. On Thursday, June 23, Gianluigi Paragone founded a party called "No Europa Per l'Italia", ie "No Europe for Italy" with a logo that includes the word "Italexit". - I say "no" to this Europe and start again with Italy because I want to start from the sovereignty of a country that has all the cards needed to play in all markets - Paragone told reporters. Paragone now advocates in-depth ideas of Euroscepticism combined with sowing the idea that the European Union is a "German project." This Italian Nigel Farage (ie the British leader of the Brexit Party and one of the initiators of the campaign to leave the EU) actually shares his fate with many Italian famous populist figures such as Giorgio Meloni , former journalist and friend of Steve Bannon who runs the neo-fascist Brothers of Italy party, or Beppe Grill a former comedian who is one of the co-founders of the Five Star Movement (M5S). The 48-year-old Paragone started his career as a journalist. He has hosted several talk shows on Italian television Rai and La7. He began his political career as part of the M5S 2018, of which he was a member until January 2020, experiencing a weakening of the popularity of this Eurosceptic party. He was then expelled from the party over clashes with its members over the budget proposal and the party's co-operation with the old enemy, the center-left Democratic Party (PD), after the previous coalition with the right-wing League of Matteo Salvini failed . The anti-establishment party, or "no party" as Paragone called it at the time, experienced a leadership crisis in January following the resignation of leader Luigi Di Maia , which further lowered the party's rating. All that was needed was an additional Italian crisis, the one caused by the pandemic, in order to further create citizens' aversion to the EU bloc. Since the beginning of the crisis, the media have been reporting on how Brussels forgot about Italy, which was the first to face all the consequences of the coronavirus. Many Italians were furious at the insufficiently rapid response of member states when they asked for help. Paragone now wants to take advantage of the Eurosceptic shift and bases his ideas on arguments of economics and sovereignty. And the perception of less solidarity during the worst crisis in the country’s history will be hard to erase in the eyes of voters in the future. What will not benefit Paragone is the new Multi-Annual Budget and the € 750 billion Recovery Fund voted on by EU leaders just a few days ago. Italy has become the largest beneficiary of the fund. The idea of ​​economic independence then falls into the water. But Paragone firmly rejected the possibility that the fund would indeed affect Italy’s economy. "The bloc has impoverished families, workers, SMEs and employees by luring them into a debt spiral," he said, adding that just giving up the EU and the single currency would trigger an economic recovery, especially after the virus. Since abandoning the single currency will be too difficult a first step, its goal will be to create a basis for Italy's exit from the European Union. But he will face difficult challenges to achieve this. A poll by the Piepoli Institute on July 6 would give his party 5 percent of the vote. The same poll is dominated by the Anti-Migrant League with 27 percent of the vote. On the other hand, Italians still predominantly love the euro and the EU. A Europedia Research poll in June found that 58.2 percent of citizens support the single currency, and 33.8 percent are against it. A SWG poll found that 39 percent of Italians believe in the EU, compared to 27 percent in April. But the fact is, Euroscepticism has been growing rapidly on the Apennine Peninsula for the last two decades. Right-wing anti-immigrant currents further provoke it. And opponents of Brussels could now 'burn oil on fire' due to the recession caused by the pandemic. After all, Paragone himself states that Farage is a great role model for him. And if Farage managed to carry out a "political project and win a gold medal", then he says that he too will "compete and follow someone who has won gold".