After Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, Italy’s looming referendum on constitutional change has been cast as the next test of populism’s seemingly unstoppable rise across the western world – with some worrying that a defeat for Matteo Renzi, the prime minister, could spell disaster for the eurozone and Europe.
But on a recent weekday in a sprawling American-style shopping mall on the outskirts of Rome, the 4 December vote was hardly seen as a make-or-break moment for the country, let alone one that could sound the death knell of the euro.
Echoing about 25% of Italian voters, 23-year-old Anna, an attendant who runs the Thomas the Tank Engine ride at the mall, said she had not yet made up her mind though she was certain to vote. But she was not particularly worried that the referendum – on measures intended to make Italy easier to govern by reducing the power of the senate – could hasten a general election and open the door to a victory for the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, the second most popular party in Italy.
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