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Italy, a co-founder of the EU, is in bad shape. The nation seems at odds with itself and the world. Direct democratic reforms could offer a way out.
Why the Swiss may have a cure for flawed democracies
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Italian-born Zaquini is a member of the local parliament in the town of Le Locle in northwestern Switzerland. The trained engineer emigrated from his native town of Iseo in northern Italy to Switzerland in the late 1990s where he was teaching at a technical college. His book La democrazia diretta vista da vicinoExternal link (Close…