All right, Alexander, let's talk about Italy and the Italian economy, which is not doing too well.

Maloney, what a, what a disappointment. It's, at least to me, from the outside looking in, maybe people in Italy see things differently.

But she hasn't turned out to be this positive

force for Italy that many people, including myself to a certain extent, I thought she was going

to make a change, but it doesn't look like it. Maybe the situation was just too hard to begin

with, given Italy's economic situation before

Maloney entered office.

But anyway, what's the situation with Italy?

Well, what Maloney is trying to do, and we're not going to specifically talk about

his budget policies, because this is the key thing.

What she seems to me to be trying to do is she's trying to repeat in Italy the Liz

Trust experiment in Britain.

She became Prime Minister of Italy, making all kinds of various promises about increasing

support for families,

rebooting the Italian economy.

A lot of people expected that she would come in as, you know,

changing things and that this would be a major shift in Italian policy.

And what instead happened is that she turned out to be a completely loyal

supporter of the European Union.

She went along with all the policies on Ukraine, for example, and in terms of domestic policy, she

didn't rock the boat very much with the European Union.

But at the same time, she made all those commitments to the Italian people, which is what

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