Rosario A. Iaconis is an author and educator who embraces Giuseppe Verdi’s…
Italian premier becomes the face of a revitalized right while remaining steadfastly Atlanticist, irks France’s Macron.
Signora Meloni’s geopolitical bonding with Ursula von der Leyen over migration and other issues, too, makes the Italian premier a kingmaker as the EU Commission president seeks a second term.
She describes herself as ‘the leader of the European conservatives who want to have a decisive role in changing the course of European politics.’
The charge is mocked by the prime minister’s attachment to market-oriented economic policy and transparency in government.
Since Ms. Meloni’s arrival at Palazzo Chigi, the premier has worked with legitimately elected world leaders of every stripe.
Beware the Ides of Abruzzo: the loss by a whisker of the prime minister’s candidate in Sardinia is raising hopes on the left that it could mark the beginning of the end of her conservative revolution.
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