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A protester holding the Italian flag sits in before anti-riot policemen during a demonstration against the new restrictions imposed by the so-called "Super Green Pass," near piazza San Giovanni in Rome on Jan. 15, 2022. Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty Images
The news from Italy has started to sound like good incipits for a dystopian fantasy novel or like a déjà vu recalling the Soviet Union. This week, a new decree of the Draghi government established yet more rules restricting the lives of people who have not been injected with the latest vaccine booster and who therefore cannot show the latest version of the Green Pass.
Dr. Matteo Salonia has taught at King's College London and other universities in the UK. He is currently assistant professor of European and International history at the University of Nottingham Ningbo. He is the author of “Genoa’s Freedom: Entrepreneurship, Republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic” (2017).
