International News Roundtable

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi talks to President Sergio Mattarella before a ceremony led by Pope Francis to close the Holy Door marking the closing of the Catholic Jubilee Year of Mercy in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican November 20, 2016. REUTERS/Tiziana Fabi/Pool

December 6, 2016 – Segment 2

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi talks to President Sergio Mattarella before a ceremony led by Pope Francis to close the Holy Door marking the closing of the Catholic Jubilee Year of Mercy in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican November 20, 2016. REUTERS/Tiziana Fabi/Pool

An International News Roundtable focusing on the elections in Italy and Austria, the implications for the EU and the refugee crisis, and an update on Aleppo. With: David Broder, translator and member of the Historical Materialism editorial board who lives in Rome, where he is working on a Ph.D. on dissident communists in the Italian Resistance; Benjami Opratko, Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Vienna, writer, and editor of mosaik-blog, an online platform for critical commentary and political analysis in Austria; and Dr. Max Hilaire, Chair of the Department of Political Science at Morgan State University.