Giorgia Meloni’s Italy: An authoritarian drift? (Part 2)

In this edition of Europe Rendezvous, we travel to Italy, one of the European Union’s founding members, to examine how the country’s democratic institutions have come under increasing pressure. It may be the season of la dolce vita, but life has been far from sweet for migrants, women seeking abortions in parts of Italy, and journalists…

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Giorgia Meloni’s Italy: An authoritarian drift? (Part 1)

In this edition of Europe Rendezvous, we travel to Italy, one of the European Union’s founding members, to examine how the country’s democratic institutions have come under increasing pressure. It may be the season of la dolce vita, but life has been far from sweet for migrants, women seeking abortions in parts of Italy, and journalists…

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Meloni’s Italy: Fortress Europe?

Migration was at the heart of Giorgia Meloni’s successful 2022 election campaign. Promising a tougher approach to irregular migration helped propel her to power, but what has her government achieved since then? One of its flagship policies was the creation of a controversial migrant processing centre in Albania. Yet the plan has repeatedly run into legal obstacles in…

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‘Incredibly dire’: Nine months into Gaza ceasefire, conditions ‘should have improved by now’

Alison Sargent is pleased to welcome Shaina Low, Communications Advisor for the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Palestine mission. Despite the reduction in large scale hostilities Low argues that Gaza remains trapped in a state of structural emergency, where humanitarian actors are…

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Giorgia Meloni: The face of Europe’s far right?

Giorgia Meloni made history in 2022 when she became Italy’s first female prime minister. She quickly signalled her ideological affinity with Donald Trump and positioned herself as a bridge between the MAGA movement in the United States and Europe’s radical right. She was also the only European leader invited to attend Trump’s second inauguration in 2025. Renaud Lefort…

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