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In Pasadena, California, there’s a cute red brick courtyard where one storefront isn’t like the rest. The glass doors open onto a sparse industrial hallway, which leads to a sunlit foyer with a large spiral staircase. Go up, and you’ll…

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…

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…

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…

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…