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... 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 ...
... James found he sexually harassed at least 11 women. Chris Cuomo, the host of CNN's “Cuomo Prime Time,” said he never reported on his brother's situation for the network and never tried to influence coverage. On-air in August, he said: “I tried to do the right thing ...
... mass incarceration. Discussions center the voices of legal scholars, activists and formerly incarcerated people at the forefront of the movement to end solitary confinement. Jerome Wright: I’m standing in front of you as somebody telling you, I suffered the inhumanity the indignity the trauma and the torture of solitary ...
... doctor's employ after 25 years and founded what people Kellogg's. They did sue each other for almost a decade over who had the right to be the real Kellogg. The doctor said, well, I'm the famous Dr. Kellogg. And he was more famous than Will at the ...
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