Italy: Berlusconis Erbe wirkt fort https://www.freiheit.org/spain-italy-portugal-and-mediterranean-dialogue/berlusconis-legacy-continues-have-impact
Silvio Berlusconi, the dazzling, controversial media entrepreneur, has significantly changed Italy’s party landscape through his many years of power – including media power. With the restructuring of the Italian right, Berlusconi’s policies contributed massively to the emergence of a bipolar party system. Populism from the left and the right have since become part of the political mainstream; from the left-wing populist 5-Star Movement and to the far-right „Brothers of Italy,“ whose leader Giorgia Meloni has led the country’s fortunes since her election victory last September.
confrontation; he invoked the fight against the „red danger