The European Union’s take-it-or-leave-it stand on Brexit doesn’t bode well for Italy’s populist government, locked in a standoff with Brussels over its spending push to fund election promises.
As law professor-turned-premier Giuseppe Conte lobbied Germany’s Angela Merkel, France’s Emmanuel Macron, and European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels during the weekend, the bloc left Theresa May with little room for political maneuvering to sell Brexit in the U.K. Parliament. Leaders insisted the Brexit deal was the best available and non-negotiable.
