For globalists like George Soros, who has spent a sizeable chunk of his personal fortune lobbying EU leaders for the unimpeded flow of migrants into their respective states, the last few days have been an unmitigated nightmare.
Two Italian anti-establishment parties, the hard-right League and the Five Star movement, forged a coalition government that puts a gang of Euroskeptics into power in the EU's fourth-largest economy. It is the first populist government in Western Europe.
Today, when Europeans speak of their 'Euroskepticism,' the criticism is invariably linked to the eurozone's double-edged sword: on the one side of the blade is the single currency, which has not lifted all boats in Italy, not by a long shot. On the other side is a massive influx of illegal immigrants pouring into the continent, the majority of which are fleeing from NATO-backed wars in the Middle East.
Italy, smack on the front line of the "migrant invasion" from North Africa, has been forced to accept some 750,000 migrants. Combined with a sputtering economy, many Italians are now enraged with their "legacy parties" and even more so with blissfully detached Brussels.
To shed some light on the national mood, Italy's new Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini told a group of cheering locals that the island of Sicily will no longer serve as "Europe's refugee camp."
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