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‘I am Giorgia’: Italy’s far-right leader and the confounding world of Italian politics

Italy’s first female PM is also the first to govern from the far right in decades. Has Giorgia Meloni’s agenda changed in power? Where did her politics come from? And why has Italy had 68 governments since World War II?

  • Angus Holland

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and US President Joe Biden in 2023.

Italian reporter fined €5000 for dig at PM Giorgia Meloni’s height

Italy defines defamation as “damage to the reputation of a person through communication with several persons.” The reporter suggested Meloni was only 1.2 meters tall.

  • Elisabetta Povoledo

I’m beginning to think MAGA doesn’t mean what Trump thinks

Somewhat ironically, the issue of whether age should preclude Trump and Biden from seeking the top job is the only one on which the two men are united.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, centre right, with heads of states after a group picture during the summit on peace in Ukraine in Switzerland.

G7 leaders back ‘Olympic truce’ for wars in Ukraine, Middle East

Leader of the G7 urged “all countries to observe the Olympic Truce individually and collectively” in support of a French proposal to temporarily halt conflicts around the world during the Games.

  • Rob Harris
Dozens of people raise their arms to honour Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on the 79th anniversary of his execution.

Dozens honour Benito Mussolini at site of Italian fascist leader’s arrest, execution

The anniversary fell on the same day that PM Giorgia Meloni led her far-right Brothers of Italy party in an election rally in the city of Pescara.

  • Nicole Winfield
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, victim of deep fake porn images, seeks damages: report

Meloni is seeking $165,000 in damages and will donate any award to an Interior Ministry fund for women victims of domestic violence.

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Kate Winslet’s tyrant will make you laugh, but don’t feel bad about it

Delusional, paranoid and power-crazed, The Regime’s Elena Vernham might just remind you of someone.

  • Michael Idato
People appear to give the banned fascist salute during a rally in Rome, on Sunday to commemorate the slaying in 1978 of two members of a neo-fascist youth group in an attack later claimed by extreme-left militants.

Hundreds give fascist salute in Rome prompting investigation

In the video, lines of men can be seen making stiff-armed salutes and shouting “present” three times. Anti-fascism laws in Italy prohibit such displays.

  • Crispian Balmer and Angelo Amante
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni peers out from a door before introducing Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Giorgia Meloni named ‘Man of the Year’ by right-wing Italian newspaper

The Libero article was criticised by women’s rights activists who have accused the Italian prime minister of promulgating regressive views.

  • Josephine McKenna
Leader of the French National Front Marine Le Pen, left, Czech far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) head Tomio Okamura, right, and leader of Dutch Party for Freedom Geert Wilders pose for a selfie during a press conference before the rally against “dictate of European Union” staged by SPD in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, April 25, 2019. (Ondrej Deml/CTK via AP)

Populists elated but Geert Wilders’ hard-right win worries Europe’s moderates

The number of loud far-right voices in the Continent is rising. Wilders’ majority win in the Netherlands could harm European unity further.

  • Rob Harris

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