It's bad in post-communist states like Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, but it's especially hopeless in the ones that use the euro. But it wants a 15 percent flat tax, and, as is practically de rigueur among today's far-right, wants closer ties with Russia. Italy, you see, is poorer now than it was when it joined the euro in 1999. The euro won't let it. That's because the other parties have teamed up, like they did in France last year, to keep the far-right out of power.

Source: Washington Post March 12, 2018 12:37 UTC