Ahead of election, tech could unite Europe´s populist groups
(WorldNews Italy)

PARIS (AP) - .The web platform was named for a revered French populist philosopher and created by an Italian internet entrepreneur to transform common grievances into proposals and activists into political candidates. When Italy’s deputy prime minister offered the populist 5-Star Movement’s Rousseau platform to France’s “yellow vest� protesters, he took a step too far for French President Emmanuel Macron. The president recalled France’s ambassador to Italy for a week, in the sharpest diplomatic dispute between the two allies since World War II. The sharing of the Rousseau technology marks the most brazen attempt to date to internationalize Europe’s...