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Giorgia Meloni has won big in Italy, but there are many more obstacles to come

The far-right leader may have little impact on European politics, says Guardian US columnist Cas Mudde

The Guardian - UK

World leaders promise vigilance on human rights as far right win in Italy

France and US among nations to warn over Giorgia Meloni’s commitment to abortion and LGBT+ rights, while rightwing politicians express delight

The Guardian - UK

Populism isn’t over. It’s getting an upgrade

Brexit and Trump collided with reality. But rising conservatives like Italy’s Giorgia Meloni are more serious about power

Financial Times

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‘Times have changed’: Italian town once run by communists poised to vote far right

Sesto San Giovanni in Milan, a key swing seat, has embraced Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy

The Guardian - UK

‘We have reason to worry’: Italian left’s rising star Elly Schlein on the far-right threat

‘Italy’s AOC’ says the left has to try to regain trust and win over undecided voters before Sunday’s election

The Guardian - UK

Giorgia Meloni boosts far-right in Italy

Meloni leads Fratelli d’Italia, or Brothers of Italy – a party whose lineage traces back to fascists

Salon

Giorgia Meloni – the political provocateur set to become Italy's first far-right leader since Mussolini

In the autumn of 1922, Benito Mussolini, the ambitious and charismatic founder of the Fascist Party, became Italy’s youngest prime minister – seizing power in a march on Rome that ushered in a dark period of totalitarian rule.

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Morning mail: Putin meets Xi, asylum seeker handcuffs ‘torture’, nuclear sub timeline

Friday: Chinese and Russian leaders meet for first time since invasion of Ukraine. Plus: the seven female stereotypes in advertising

The Guardian - AU

Hungary is no longer a full democracy, says European parliament

MEPs back resolution stating country led by Viktor Orbán has become ‘hybrid regime of electoral autocracy’

The Guardian - UK

Is Lauren Boebert a Christian nationalist?

DENVER — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s pattern of pushing for a religious takeover of America, spreading falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election and warning of an impending judgment day amounts to Christian nationalism, religious, political and social experts say.

The Denver Post

Hungary tightens abortion access with listen to ‘foetal heartbeat’ rule

Fears move will pave way for more restrictions in country where terminations are widely accepted

The Guardian - UK

Putin is trapped and desperate. Will his friends in the west rescue him?

Russia’s leader and his sympathisers could use old conflicts to distract attention from Ukraine and weaken European unity

The Guardian - UK

Viktor Orbán’s grip on Hungary’s courts threatens rule of law, warns judge

Csaba Vasvári’s claims of ‘overreach’ follow freeze on EU funds over concerns about judicial independence

The Guardian - UK

Editorial: The American right cheers a foreign despot

Not long after Donald Trump’s 2016 election, Vox’s Zack Beauchamp traveled to Hungary, where its authoritarian leader, Viktor Orbán, had implemented many of the populist-right policies that had energized the American president’s most ardent supporters. Notably, Orbán militarized Hungary’s southern border to stop the “invasion” of migrants — and he…

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Who needs enemies when you have friends like Orbán and Erdoğan?

Despite the threats of Russia, China, and stagflation, Hungary and Turkey are backstabbing the organisations they belong to – Nato and the EU, writes Oliver Hartwich

The Guardian - UK

Hungary tries to unlock funds frozen amid EU disciplinary process

Viktor Orbán has sent a top official to Brussels in effort to obtain Covid recovery funds worth billions of euros as deadline nears

The Guardian - UK

Beneath the skin of our obsession with whiteness lie deeper fears about our place in the world

Anti-racists fear racism will never be conquered, while racists still nurse a sense of loss and pride

The Texas Tribune

At CPAC, conservative Texans show Donald Trump loyalty and support for another presidential run

A straw poll conducted at the conference found that Trump is still the overwhelming favorite among attendees. Sen. Ted Cruz, who spoke at the conference on Friday, came in third with 2% of the straw poll vote, coming up short to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Viktor Orbán turns Texas conference into transatlantic far-right love-in

The authoritarian Hungarian leader was embraced as a kindred spirit by Trump fans at the CPAC event in Dallas

The Texas Tribune

Texas Republicans rally their base at CPAC, but draw criticism over Hungarian prime minister’s appearance

Viktor Orbán appeared at the convention in Dallas after saying last week that Europeans “do not want to become peoples of mixed race.” Texas officials attending, though, stayed focused on criticizing Democrats.

Reason

Viktor Orbán Flatters Republicans With the Lie That Progressive Liberals and Communists Are 'the Same'

The Hungarian prime minister also makes the historically illiterate claim that Christians can't be racist.

Texas Observer

The Fascist Circus Comes to CPAC Texas

Republican politicians joined Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for speeches laced with antisemitism and overt Christian nationalism.

Salon

Why Hungary's Orbán is a CPAC rockstar

Over the last two years, Orbán has become an icon of American conservatives rivaled only by Donald Trump

The Guardian - US

Orbán urges Christian nationalists in Europe and US to ‘unite forces’ at CPAC

Hungary’s prime minister delivers opening address to American conservatives at CPAC in Texas

Reason

U.S. Conservatives Set To Applaud Viktor Orbán's Paranoid Anti-Americanism

Kleptocratic Hungarian leader, under fire for "mixed race" speech, condemns America for weaponizing energy, antagonizing Russia, and incubating gender "lunacy."

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