Giorgia Meloni has emerged as the big winner of the European election results in Italy, taking 29 per cent
That is more than the 26 per cent the party won when it formed the government in the autumn of 2022.
The projected results consolidate Ms Meloni’s position at home and boost her standing internationally.
Her party has won around four times the vote that it garnered in the last EU election in 2019, illustrating a remarkable rise in popularity.
Telegraph 10 June 2024
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/06/10/giorgia-meloni-italy-european-elections/
The continent-wide support for the right is driven by hostility to mass migration from the southern hemisphere,
... to which no government appears to have a credible response.
Few politicians of the center and left dare to tell voters the truth — that the migrant flood can only increase, given the demographics of Africa and consequences of climate change.
Europe’s big story — what should rightfully have been the central issue of these elections — is its severe economic decline, relative to Asia and the United States.
ince securing the national leadership, she has achieved the difficult — and perhaps alarming — feat of making her far-right party and, above all, herself look respectable.
She has dropped her earlier opposition to EU membership, arguing instead only for reform, and forged a close working relationship with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
She is also being courted by French right-wing star Marine Le Pen. She told Italian TV during the campaign: “I want to try something that’s not easy but fascinating -- to repeat in Europe what we’ve achieved in Italy.”
One more message from the European weekend:
Any ruling politician up for election anywhere in the Western world had better be seen to do something meaningful to control immigration. Or lose their job.
Max Hastings Bloomberg 10 June 2024
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