Italy’s European Policy: back from «Sovereign Isolation»?

• Main Author: Elena Alekseenkova
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Institute of Europe Russian Academy of Sciences 2019-10-01
• Series: Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАН
• Subjects: italian foreign policy; eu; sovereigns; «government of changes»; yellow-green coalition; yellow-red coalition; giuseppe conte; matteo salvini; luigi di maio.
• Online Access: http://vestnikieran.instituteofeurope.ru/images/Alekseenkova52019_.pdf
• ISSN: 2618-7914; 2618-7914

The article analyzes the change of Italian foreign policy from June 1, 2018 (the formation of the first cabinet of Giuseppe Conte) to October 2019 (the first month of the second cabinet of Giuseppe Conte). The author identifies three main phases of Italian foreign policy in this period: the first is «sovereign isolation» – the period of the most severe confrontation with Brussels and the Paris-Berlin tandem; the second is the «coalition of sovereignists» – attempts to form a coalition of like-minded people within the EU; and the third - the desire to return to the ranks of the «protagonists» of the EU.