Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has made a political art of being many things at once.
Since coming to power in 2022, she has become the leader of Italy’s longest-serving postwar government. Meloni has also transformed herself from a politician once viewed as a radical outsider into one of Europe’s most consequential conservative leaders. Her political strength has always rested on adaptability: whether speaking the culture war language of MAGA politics in Washington, European pragmatism in Brussels or nationalism in Rome.
