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In Italy, the main political parties contesting the EU election have held their last major rallies, outlining very different visions of the European Union. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has denounced an “increasingly technocratic and undemocratic Europe" while her main opponent, Elly Schlein of the Democratic Party, has called for…

Cardinal Czerny urges Europeans to remember their migratory roots and show compassion towards migrants ahead of the European Parliament election.

A top Vatican cardinal has urged European voters to remember their own migratory roots in showing sympathy to people forced to flee their homes

Even her toughest opponents admit she’s played it cleverly. Yet the long-term aims of Italy’s prime minister remain unclear, writes Jon Henley

The PM is talking up her underdog credentials ahead of this week’s European elections. But many in an impoverished Rome neighbourhood are sceptical

While Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni adopts a reassuring Western-allied foreign policy, cultural wars at home are preserving her far-right credentials heading into European Parliamentary elections

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni's far-right leadership and pragmatic foreign policy approach are shaping Italy's political landscape and influencing Europea...

Amid concerns about the financing, fate or limits imposed on public broadcasters in several EU countries such as France and Poland, this edition of Scoop looks at Italy. The International and European Federations of Journalists are concerned that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is turning public broadcaster RAI into a…

Marine Le Pen’s rupture with her German allies reveals a tactical fault line between the ‘old’ right and the ‘new’

Nicolas Schmit, the lead candidate for the Party of European Socialists (PES), speaks to FRANCE 24 about the dangers, as he sees them, of a potential alliance between the right and the far right. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has called for Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and French far-right leader Marine…

German Green MEP warns that EU plan to tackle climate crisis will be put at risk by agreement with hard right parties