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Italian PM Meloni in Kyiv amid tensions over war within her coalition

PM to reassert support for Ukraine after coalition partner Silvio Berlusconi blamed Volodymyr Zelenskiy for Russia’s invasion

The Guardian - UK

Italian PM Meloni to visit Kyiv on Monday to meet Zelenskiy

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will travel to Kyiv on Monday to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a political source said on Sunday.

Reuters

EU conservatives scrap Italy meeting over Berlusconi Ukraine comments

The European People's Party (EPP) said on Friday it was cancelling a planned event in Naples due to criticism of Ukraine by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose Forza Italia party is an EPP member.

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Factbox-Berlusconi's many court battles, one sole conviction

An Italian court on Wednesday acquitted former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi over allegations of bribing witnesses in an underage prostitution case.

Reuters

Italy's Berlusconi wins another legal battle in Bunga Bunga bribe case

An Italian court on Wednesday acquitted Silvio Berlusconi over allegations of paying witnesses to lie in an underage prostitution case that has dogged the former prime minister for more than a decade.

Reuters

Italy's right poised to win regional vote after national triumph

Italy's two most important regions hold elections this weekend that will provide Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her right-wing allies with their first ballot-box test since winning power last year.

Reuters

Analysis-Italy's Meloni belies radical image in cautious first 100 days

Before Italian nationalist leader Giorgia Meloni won power in September, German news magazine Stern put her on its front cover with the headline: "The most dangerous woman in Europe".

Reuters

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The fox in the chicken coop: how the far right is playing the European Parliament

Several countries in the European Union are currently governed by far-right political parties. In Hungary, Fidesz under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been progressively dismantling the country’s constitutional protections of the rule of law and democratic institutions. Poland under its ruling Law and Justice party has shown equally worrying trends.…

The Conversation

Italy's 'political earthquake' as Giorgia Meloni is first far-right leader since WWII

Giorgia Meloni's appointment has been described as a "political earthquake" in European politics, as minorities fear their rights will be severely impacted by her Brothers of Italy party

Daily Mirror

David Pratt: Far-right gain power in Italy and Trump's shadow hangs over US midterms

IT’S a long political journey from being a teenage activist in 1992 to being sworn in as Italy’s first female prime minister yesterday. But…

The National (Scotland)

Fall of Liz Truss gives Italy’s far right a lesson in what not to do

Giorgia Meloni’s radical economic agenda had resembled Kwasi Kwarteng’s. It won’t any longer

The Guardian - UK

Factbox-Key ministers in new Italian Meloni government

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government was sworn into office on Saturday. Her cabinet was made up of 24 ministers. Here the profiles of some of the key figures:

Reuters

Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni has been sworn in as Italian premier

Giorgia Meloni was sworn in on Saturday as Italy's first far-right premier since the end of World War II. She is also the first woman to be premier.

WEKU

Italy’s far-right Meloni becomes country’s first woman to lead government

Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni was named Italian prime minister on Friday, becoming the first woman to head a government in Italy. Her appointment is an historic event for the eurozone's third largest economy and for the Brothers of Italy party, which has never been in government.

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Right-wing Meloni sworn in as Italy's first woman prime minister

Giorgia Meloni was sworn in as Italy's first woman prime minister on Saturday alongside her cabinet team, giving the country its most right-wing government since World War Two.

Tribune News Service

Meloni gets mandate to become Italy's first female premier

ROME — Giorgia Meloni is set to become Italy’s first female prime minister, heading its most right-wing government since World War II after President Sergio Mattarella tasked her to form an administration.

Reuters

Key ministers in new Italian government

Giorgia Meloni's Italian government will be sworn in on Saturday at 10 a.m. (0800 GMT). Her cabinet will be made up of 24 ministers. Here the profiles of some of the key figures:

Reuters

Italy's Giorgetti named economy minister, Tajani foreign minister

New Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday named Giancarlo Giorgetti of the League party as her economy minister and said the foreign ministry will go to Antonio Tajani from Forza Italia.

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The Independent UK

History-maker Giorgia Meloni becomes Italy’s first female PM

Far right figure Meloni has accepted a mandate to form a new government

Reuters

Italy's right asks president to name Meloni prime minister

Giorgia Meloni said on Friday her rightist coalition had asked President Sergio Mattarella to name her as Italian prime minister following its Sept. 25 election victory.

Reuters

Meloni takes charge as PM as Italy swings to the right

Giorgia Meloni was on Friday named as Italy's first woman prime minister and chose her cabinet team, setting her seal on the country's most right-wing government since World War Two.

Reuters

Analysis-Method or madness? Berlusconi's Russia stance hurts Meloni and Italy

Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's pro-Russia statements are likely to complicate Giorgia Meloni's efforts to establish international credibility for the government she is set to lead, analysts say.

France 24

Meloni rages as Berlusconi’s ‘vodka gifts’ from Putin hijack Italy’s coalition talks

If there was ever any doubt that Silvio Berlusconi would make an awkward “junior” partner in Italy’s next government, it was dispelled in sensational fashion this week as the octogenarian former premier was recorded boasting that he exchanged gifts of vodka, wine and “sweet” letters with Russia’s Vladimir Putin –…

The Independent UK

Berlusconi reveals he’s ‘reconnected’ with Putin and received a ‘sweet’ letter from Russian leader

The pair exhanged vodka and ‘sweet letters’

The Independent UK

Berlusconi says Russia's Putin gifted him vodka, sweet note

Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi was heard on audiotape boasting that he had recently reconnected with Russian President Vladimir Putin and exchanged gifts of vodka, wine and “sweet” letters

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