Weeks after the Italian people voted overwhelmingly to reject the government of technocrats imposed by the European Union (EU) — and, by implication, to reject the EU’s austerity program — there is still no clear sign that a stable government can be formed with a working majority in the Italian parliament. Italian economist and newspaper columnist Carlo Bastasin, in an election commentary for the Washington-based Brookings Institution, said, “No parliament, no government…
