ROME—Italy’s president on Wednesday asked a political novice chosen by two antiestablishment parties to form a coalition government after more than two months of wrangling touched off by March elections that yielded no clear winner. President Sergio Mattarella’s appointment of Giuseppe Conte, a little-known law professor with virtually no political experience, marks a long-awaited milestone for the upstart 5 Star Movement and the far-right League, political insurgencies that are causing jitters among the European establishment and...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 23, 2018 18:56 UTC