Defenders of European status quo face fight on two fronts

Today’s defenders of the European status quo must fight against both Trump’s hostility and against the likes of Matteo Salvini and Luigi di Maio, the rising stars of Italian politics, who see the disintegration of the euro as a boon to their campaign, writes Yanis Varoufakis

ONE of the most common mistakes European leaders make in interpreting US president Donald Trump’s hostility toward America’s traditional allies, or the alacrity of his administration’s efforts to blow up the international order, is to assume that all of this is unprecedented. Nothing could be further from the truth.