European Vote – Italy: Moving Europe to the Right?

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Ahead of June’s European elections, Italy will be in the spotlight this week in a whistleblower debate series featuring each of the EU’s 27 member states. In Europe’s third-largest economy, tensions are growing between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing Italian Brothers party and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who leads the far-right Alliance party, an even more right-wing coalition partner. When Ms. Meloni led a far-right coalition to power in October 2022 and became Italy’s first female prime minister, most headlines focused on her party’s rise from its neo-fascist roots and her It was about a track record of bashing immigrants. Since then, she has sought to establish herself as a more mainstream conservative, working with other EU leaders and staunchly supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Italy and Meloni are currently at the forefront of the European elections, with right-wing parties hoping for a big breakthrough.