With his back against the wall with an upcoming referendum on constitutional reform, the Italian Prime Minister decided to remove the EU flag from a Q and A event on Facebook. <br /><br /> While taking part in an online call to League and Five Stars nationalist voters at his official office in Palazzo Chigi, Rome, Matteo Renzi pointedly removed the EU flag.<br /><br /> He spoke in front of six Italian tricolours instead of the usual combination of a European Union flag, an Italian one and the Italian Council of Ministers’ flag.<br /><br /> The 41-year-old faces the biggest test yet of his political career on December 4, when Italy votes on changing the constitution, a ballot seen in the eyes of some as a vote on the country’s membership of the 28 nation bloc.<br /><br /> Renzi has reiterated that he will quit if he loses the vote. <br /><br /> Here is an appearance featuring Renzi last June in a previous event.<br /><br /> <br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /> Here he is last Saturday, minus the EU flag.<br />
