The Meloni coalition’s plan to give more power to ‘virtuous’ regions has inflamed the country’s North-South divide
“But the reform has exposed a deep wound in Italy’s national psyche, dividing the prosperous North, which will benefit from the changes, from the historically deprived South. Dating back to the country’s unification in 1861, when the Northern Piedmontese annexed the Southern Bourbon kingdom, it is a split that has never truly healed.”
Fonte: Politico
Autore: Hannah Roberts
Link: A punch-up in parliament reveals Italy’s deepest scars
