Fabio Castaldo on conflict Zone
28 September 2018 |
5:30 am
The populist pitch of Italy's Five Star Movement led it to electoral success and coalition government with the far-right League party. Fabio Castaldo, a European Parliament Vice President and Five Star MEP, tells Conflict Zone his party "will be the third way" in Europe.
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