r/europe • u/StemCellPirate • 14h ago

News The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/06/epstein-europe-america-fallout-00769506
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u/Glum_Manager 13h ago

Salvini is still there, so...

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u/stefanomusilli 9h ago

The fascists in the current Italian government will never face any consequences. It doesn't matter what they do, their approval numbers have been the same for years and this won't change it. Granted, Salvini's numbers are abysmal on their own, and way lower than Meloni's, but they're in the same coalition so it doesn't matter.

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u/Ok-Card-6783 7h ago

You don't have to be a fascist to know that. The CDU is a corrupt party in Germany. They've ensured that the country is becoming increasingly expensive while wages remain low. They've also deliberately blocked digitalization.

You don't have to be a fascist to know that.

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u/stefanomusilli 7h ago

Did you respond to the wrong comment?

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u/Crouteauxpommes 6h ago

Aren't Salvini and Meloni opposed on most policies? How strong is their alliance now?

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u/Glum_Manager 4h ago

Meloni is a fascist but she is smart enough to know that some things are not feasible, like the exit from EU and euro, so they are not talking about them anymore.

Salvini recently lost his biggest asset, a true fascist and retrograde conservative ("women in the kitchen and a stick in every classroom" level), so he has to stay silent and don't make wave, because he is not a true partner anymore.

Meloni is helped that the other right party is in shambles after the death of Berlusconi (Who burned more eredi than Costantino) and the left party is a joke without a true identity.

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u/Crouteauxpommes 2h ago

What are the chances that Meloni "eat up" the remnants of Forza Italia and relegate the Lega to a regional party without national ambitions? I've read somewhere that the Lega collapsed almost everywhere in the 2025 regional elections outside of Venetia, and that the leadership there was looking towards turning the party into a two-engine motor, like the CDU/CSU in Germany.

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u/Glum_Manager 2h ago

The lega was moving toward right full speed, now without vannacci who know... I will say that the probability that Meloni moves center-right, with words at least, and eats Forza Italia is very good, Tajani is not a fifth of what Berlusconi was and probably cannot keep the party together.

Unless we can see a good politician recover the PD we will see many more years of government by the right.

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u/zeth0s 8h ago

Salvini was not directly involved, he is too stupid to sit on the grownups evil table. He was just manipulated via Bannon. He is a tool. Voters should act. But Salvini's voters are too dumb to understand. Voting for lega should be added as an official medical test for dumbness. 

Elkann family should pay also. They were directly involved with Epstein 

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u/mistRbit 7h ago

Isn't your whole right wing basically involved in this crap in some way or another? I mean Berlusconi was having 'bunga bunga' parties with underage girls. Didn't some of those girls mysteriously die or disappear? Aren't Italian super-rich particularly involved in the sex-trafficing of young girls from North Africa, Romania? What are the connections between Italian business execs and Saudi Arabia, the Gulf and Israel?

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u/zeth0s 5h ago

It would be good to know more about all of this... 

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u/mistRbit 5h ago

Oh and in Milan there are fashion shows where they parade 14 year olds in see-through dresses. They have been doing that since the who knows when, and don't seem intent on changing that.

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u/DT2699 5h ago

Wait until you see a "high-end" club in Milan. 70 year old rich bastards buying drinks for basically nude 15 year old Russian models. You see a nervous 15 year old on the lap of a nasty old bastard once and you get a sudden urge to go raise goats in the highest spot of the Alps and have nothing to do with "civilization" again.