From Keir Starmer to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, each European chief appears eager to have their image taken with Italy’s Giorgia Meloni. But she is the nation’s first far proper prime minister for the reason that second world conflict and when she was elected she was talked of as a hazard to Europe.
Alexander Stille, a former editor of Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper and now a professor of journalism at Columbia College, has been watching her rise. He seems to be on the influences which have formed her – from her romance novelist mom to her time within the authorities of a earlier controversial Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. And, most surprisingly of all, JRR Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings books.
Michael Safi hears how Meloni’s assist for Ukraine and Nato, and her pragmatic strategy to politics, appear to have received over European leaders. However what does she actually need, and if the rise of the far proper in Europe continues, might she be extra excessive than she appears?
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