After Brexit, Italy is the next fault line for the EU

During World War Two, Winston Churchill became convinced that Italy would turn out to be the weak point of occupied Europe, and so it proved in 1943.

Could history be about to repeat itself albeit in a very different context?

The land of ‘La bella figura’ has emerged as one of the main victims of globalisation resulting in the mass closures of many of the small manufacturing enterprises that formed the basis for a long period of prosperity in the post-War years.