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Welcome to Britaly, announces the weekly The Economist, showing a drawing that caricatures Liz Truss as a Roman legionnaire who has replaced the spear and shield with a fork with spaghetti and a pizza, respectively.

Der Spiegel, meanwhile, draws the London clock tower in the shape of a banana. “The banana island”, says the German weekly on the cover.

“The Italians have become demoralized and have exploded on social networks,” says Enric Juliana in La Vanguardia.

At a critical moment in which the United Kingdom seems to be in the middle of a labyrinth called Brexit, The Economist points out: you can always be one step below, you can always end up being Italian.

Thousands of tweets have been launched against British satire, and to make the protest official, the Italian ambassador in London, Inigo Lambertini, recently unpacked, responded through an official note in which he rejects the “old stereotypes” and recalls that Italy is the second manufacturing power in Europe.

Italy woke up yesterday governed by the post-fascist movement whose leader is Giorgia Meloni who said a few years ago that Benito Mussolini’s fascism “did good things and kept society in order”, before allying with Hitler.

In Rome, they did not like it at all that the French Minister for European Affairs, Laurence Boone, commented in an interview with La Repubblica that Paris was going to “monitor respect for rights and freedoms” by the Italian Government.

Meloni interpreted the words as an “unacceptable threat of interference against a sovereign state of the European Union.”

Yesterday, October 23, Meloni had a talk with Macron on a terrace of a hotel in Rome. Not surprisingly, relations between the two countries cooled down during the first populist government of Giuseppe Conte. Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio held a meeting with members of the yellow vests, who put the French president in check.

It seems that populisms have created anti-democratic laboratories, and now they have patented them for international launch. The United States has already suffered an assault on Capitol Hill by people who were willing to prevent Mike Pence from declaring Joe Biden the winner on January 6 of last year.

The day dawns badly when Silvio Berlusconi becomes a support figure for any government. With multiple appointments with the Justice, the politician has pressured Meloni, even since last week.

Two questions circulate in Meloni’s political environment: Will he impose his political-nostalgic dogma for Mussolini? In how many months or weeks will Berlusconi withdraw his support from him?

The Liz Truss effect is alive. As alive as populism in Europe and Latin America.

@faustopretelin