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... its leader Frans Timmermans made clear that Wilders should not count on a coalition with him. Despite his harsh rhetoric, Wilders was already courting other right and center parties by saying that whatever he would do, "it would be within the law and constitution." The historic victory came one year ...
... World War II, ending a disastrous and murderous alliance with Hitler's Germany. Meloni has tried to chart a moderate course, seeking to distance her Brothers of Italy party from its neo-fascist origins and denouncing Mussolini's racial laws that sent thousands of Italian Jews to Nazi death camps ...
... serve as premier. Meloni, 45, recited the oath of office before President Sergio Mattarella, who on Friday formally asked her to form a government. Her Brothers of Italy party, which she co-founded in 2012, will rule in coalition with the right-wing League of Matteo Salvini and the conservative ...
... but it has come to our attention this week, Jonathan, with the election of a woman named Giorgia Meloni. She's the leader of the Brothers of Italy, a political party, has ushered in what is being described as the most far right government in Italy since World War II.
The elections also swept away veterans of successful battles for civil rights, including divorce and abortion, as well as lawmakers still struggling for freedoms like same-sex marriage. Perhaps Italy's most celebrated living civil rights activist, Emma Bonino, lost her Senate seat to a Rome city councilwoman from Brothers ...
... create a Europe that would include all the truly European states. Nick Schifrin: But each of those coalition leaders actually lost votes to Meloni's Brothers of Italy. Nathalie Tocci, Former E.U. Special Adviser: The pro-Kremlin parties took a real beating, and Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni's ...
... center on the Tiber River, with its obelisk still bearing Mussolini's name. The Italian Constitution bars the reconstitution of the Fascist party, but far-right groups still display the fascist salute and there continues to be an acceptance of fascist symbols, said Brennan. "You don't have to look ...
... in the eurozone’s third-largest economy is being closely watched in Europe, given Meloni’s criticism of “Brussels bureaucrats” and her ties to other right-wing leaders — she recently defended Hungary’s Viktor Orban after the European Commission recommended suspending billions of euros in funding to Hungary over concerns ...
... States, a fellow Group of Seven country. But she often views European Union rules as an infringement on Italy's sovereignty. If Meloni's far-right forces dominate Italy's next government, there's concern about the support Italy will give to right-wing governments in Hungary and Poland “for ...
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