🎧 Italy vs France vs Brexit

Episode summary: We take the wider European view this week, catching up with the latest developments in Italy and France. A year on from the Italian elections, who is up and who is down in the coalition between the League and Five Star? What is China up to in Italy? Has Macron really got his mojo back? Plus we ask the big question: between chaos at Westminster, riots in Paris and rabble-rousing in Rome, whose democracy is in the biggest trouble? With Lucia Rubinelli and Chris Bickerton. Talking Points: What’s going on in Italian politics? - In regional elections, the Five Star’s votes collapsed. - The PD, the centre-left party, now has a new leader, but at the time of the regional elections it was in transition and still beat Five Star. - The League has doubled its share of votes to 33-34%. - The new leader of the PD got elected on a platform that would bring the party further to the left. But the Renzi faction is still quite powerful. What about France? - There is something taking place in France that the national…