Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Saturday characterised next week’s European elections, where far-right parties like hers are expected to gain ground, as a “referendum between two opposing visions of Europe”.
Meloni’s post-fascist Brothers of Italy party triumphed in September 2022 national elections and is hoping for a repeat performance in the European Parliament elections, held in Italy on June 8 and 9.
“We are at a turning point and it is as if it were a sort of referendum between two opposing visions of Europe,” she told thousands of supporters at a rally in central Rome.
“The EU must be a partner of nation states, not a superstructure that suffocates nation states.”
In an hour-long speech to a rally in Rome’s historic Piazza del Popolo, in front of a banner saying: “With Giorgia, Italy Changes Europe”, she said now was the time for a similar change across the…
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