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Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni Emerges As Stable EU Leader

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni emerges as a stable and influential leader bridging right-wing and centrist ideologies in Europe.

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Italy's Meloni will welcome the G7 summit fortified by an EU vote that shook French, German leaders

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni hosts this week’s summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations as the most stable European Union leader

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EU elections: how Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni framed her politics throughout the campaign

Brothers of Italy, a far-right party with neo-fascist roots, has won over 28% of Italy’s vote in the European parliamentary elections. The party is expected to get 24 seats in parliament, quadrupling what it took in 2019. These results in Italy reflect broader gains for far-right parties in several EU…

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Italy Riled Up By Stamp Honouring Fascist Football Pioneer

The decision to honour the founder of the AS Roma football club on a postage stamp has caused a furore in Italy due to his Fascist past.

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‘She just says blah blah’: why Italy’s downtrodden believe Meloni is doing nothing for them

The PM is talking up her underdog credentials ahead of this week’s European elections. But many in an impoverished Rome neighbourhood are sceptical

The Guardian - UK

Europe vote may tip balance between Meloni's far-right agenda in Italy and mainstream foreign policy

While Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni adopts a reassuring Western-allied foreign policy, cultural wars at home are preserving her far-right credentials heading into European Parliamentary elections

The Independent UK

Italian Far-Right Leader Giorgia Meloni's Political Balancing Act

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni's far-right leadership and pragmatic foreign policy approach are shaping Italy's political landscape and influencing Europea...

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Model seeks legal advice after Salvini’s party uses image for anti-Islam poster

Anna Haholkina tells of shock and says no one from deputy Italian PM’s League sought her permission

The Guardian - UK

Italian PM Meloni Says Will Stand In EU Elections

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday she would stand in upcoming European Parliament elections, a move apparently calculated to boost her far-right party, although she would be forced to resign immediately.

International Business Times

Italian author accuses state broadcaster of censorship of antifascist monologue

Outcry over cancellation of Antonio Scurati’s Rai talkshow appearance as note says move was taken ‘for editorial reasons’

The Guardian - UK

Former Uffizi director under fire for joining race to be Florence mayor

If elected, Eike Schmidt would form a coalition with Brothers of Italy in what could be a major blow for the left

The Guardian - UK

Populist parties’ divisions jeopardise chances of setting European agenda

Survey shows supporters of nationalist parties hold widely differing views on EU membership, migration and support for Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Increasing sense of marginalisation among Italy's Muslim community

There are approximately 2.7 million Muslims living in Italy, which amounts to about 4.9 percent of the population, a community that is being targeted by the current coalition government led by the right-wing Brothers of Italy party. They are the second largest religious group in the country after Christians, but…

France 24

Europe votes – Italy: pushing Europe to the right?

In the spotlight this week in our whistle-stop debate series featuring each of the EU’s 27 member states ahead of June’s European elections: Italy. Europe’s third-biggest economic power has seen a growing rivalry between the right-wing Brothers of Italy party, led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and her even further…

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Sardinia elects leftwing president, in blow to Giorgia Meloni

Alessandra Todde of the Five Star Movement, backed by the Democratic party, is the Italian island’s first female president

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Which ‘crisis tribe’ do you belong to? These five factions will define Europe in 2024

From fear of migration to the rising cost of living, new political dividing lines will decide June’s European elections, say Ivan Krastev of the Institute of Human Sciences and Mark Leonard of the European Council on Foreign Relations

The Guardian - UK

Fascist salute not a crime unless a risk to public order, Italy’s top court says

Ruling by court of cassation allows gesture at rallies but not where it risks ‘revival of fascist party’

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Meloni urged to ban neofascist groups after crowds filmed saluting in Rome

Hundreds of men shown making fascist salutes during gathering outside Italian Social Movement headquarters

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The Guardian - UK

Make or break for the EU? Europeans vote in June with far right on the rise

Ever more of the continent’s 400 million voters feel the bloc is important enough to warrant casting their ballot

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Meloni faces questions after Italian MP’s gun fired at New Year’s Eve party

Man taken to hospital with bullet wound after incident involving pistol owned by Emanuele Pozzolo

The Guardian - UK

Italy’s ruling party drafts law to ‘safeguard’ school nativity scenes

Brothers of Italy party plans law to ‘safeguard’ Christian traditions and prevent schools ‘modifying the essence of Christmas’

The Independent UK

Italy's far-right Premier Meloni defies fears of harming democracy and clashing with the EU

When Giorgia Meloni took office a year ago as the first far-right premier in Italy’s post-war history, many in Europe worried about the prospect of the country’s democratic backsliding and resistance to European Union rules

The Guardian - UK

Italian MP calls for museum director to be sacked for being ‘racist towards Italians’

Christian Greco, who manages the Egyptian Museum in Turin, offered discounted tickets to Arabic speakers

The Guardian - UK

‘She plays the moderate but winks at those who are not’: the many faces of Giorgia Meloni

After almost a year in power critics of Italy’s PM say nobody should be fooled: those giving her plaudits have forgotten her past

The Independent UK

Italian leader tones down divisive rhetoric but carries on with pursuit of far-right agenda

When Giorgia Meloni was running to become Italy’s first far-right head of government of the post-war era, she steeped her winning campaign in the sharply ideological rhetoric of national sovereignty, “traditional families” and fear of migrants

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