• InUmberto Bossi

  …the leader (1991–2012) of the Northern League (Lega Nord) party.

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Euroskepticism

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  InEuroskepticism: The emergence of Euroskeptic parties

  Soft Euroskeptic parties included Italy’s Northern League (Lega Nord), which advocated the creation of a new state that would include Italy’s wealthier northern regions and the return of the lira. Both UKIP and the Northern League served in the European Parliament as members of the Europe of Freedom & Democracy…

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role in Italy

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  InItaly: Political parties

  …of the market economy; the Northern League (Lega Nord; LN), formed in 1991, a federalist and fiscal-reform movement with large support in the northern regions; and the National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale; AN), which succeeded the MSI in 1994 but whose political platform renounced its fascist past. Meanwhile, the PCI remained…

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  InItaly: The rise of Berlusconi

  …socialism in eastern Europe, the Northern League secured almost 20 percent of the northern vote in the parliamentary elections. Later it advocated a new constitution with a federal Italy divided into three autonomous republics that would have separate responsibility for everything except defense, foreign affairs, and monetary policy. The northern…

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