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CNN: Voters in Italy, Austria send message to EU leaders

By CNN.

Published Dec. 5, 2016 at 2:25 pm

Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announces his resignation during a press conference at the Palazzo Chigi following the results of the vote for a referendum on constitutional reforms, on December 5, 2016 in Rome.

Photo by AFP

Europeans rode an emotional roller coaster on Dec. 4. Up, then down.

The resignation of Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in the early hours of Dec. 5 signaled what so many had feared, that his referendum on political reforms inside Italy would reverberate across all of Europe.