Giorgia Meloni

By trying to cut off support for the far right, the European centre is normalising their extreme policies

Liberal democratic leaders out or embattled in office; the right on the rise ... Trump’s second coming has echoes of a century ago and Yeats’s warning that ‘the centre cannot hold’

Italian prime minister seeks to allay concerns that Trump might break with Washington’s traditional European allies as he pursues a Maga agenda

Meloni is seen as a potentially strong partner for Trump given her conservative credentials

Worldview: Meloni is not bringing Italian post-fascism back to the centre ground and moderating it, but is polishing up a dangerous anti-democratic throwback

The pronatalist movement has roots in creepy tradwife visions, but does that matter if it leads to financial supports for families?

UniCredit announced an unsolicited €10bn takeover offer on Monday

A judge ruled that seven men brought to Albania by an Italian warship on Friday cannot be detained in Albania

Warning comes as European leaders congratulate Donald Trump on US election victory

Extreme right’s gains are forcing EU states to consider a hardened policy

The right-wing prime minister’s administration is under fire for using legal action to ‘intimidate’ journalists

For all the rhetoric about opposing globalist elites, the far right clearly follows a form of globalism

Economics, although important, tend to be trumped by culture

Attitudes to democracy and the rule of law will define the distinctions in politics

Le Pen could repeat her EU election performance in two weeks’ time, leaving French politics in gridlock. There could be consequences for Ireland

Volodymyr Zelenskiy hails Kyiv’s new security deals with United States and Japan

Millions of voters across Europe no longer think the EU represents their interests. There are two things it must do

The last best hope against populism is to expose it to government

Centre-right European People’s Party upbeat about prospects for von der Leyen retaining role

Old taboos about voting for parties with fascist associations are breaking down

Election results: European Commission president says ‘we are the anchor of stability’, with European People’s Party projected to take 189 seats

Hard-right Fratelli d’Italia set to top European poll and become bigger player in parliament

Europe Letter: Italy’s Giorgia Meloni being courted by both Ursula von der Leyen and Marine Le Pen

Deputy prime minister under pressure after picking homophobic, pro-Russia candidate for European elections

The prime minister says the current system leads to unstable governments. Opponents say her plan would weaken parliament and the president

Just 379,000 babies were born in 2023 despite efforts to reverse decline

Negotiations in the Netherlands and Portugal foreshadow tough bargaining in the European Parliament after the votes are in

Janan Ganesh: It is voters, not politicians, who set the bounds of what is possible

Von der Leyen says she will increase support of Ukraine and clamp down on migrant smugglers

The party decided not to be the party of change on climate change, which may be a smart political calculation, but comes at a cost

Moscow ‘has a strong foothold’ in Italian towns with a far-right presence

Leaders arrive shortly after Russian drone attack on residential building in southern city of Odesa

Hugh Linehan: Their take on Middle-earth mixes arrested adolescent kitsch with an undercurrent of menace

Russian embassy denies involvement in hoax video call

Geert Wilders’ win in Netherlands hailed as the ‘start of a wave’ for like-minded allies

Thinking about 2023 through the lens of its towering individuals is a good practice in much-needed introspection. So, who might make the cut?

Foreign minister Antonio Tajani urges Israelis to talk to allies about who will rule strip after military operation ends

The message of U2′s ZooTV tour was not only that violent nationalism and right-wing populism were on the rise in Europe but that the EU was too passive in the face of such threats

Attitudes to immigration are hardening among many in Germany in advance of Sunday’s state elections

European Commission head visits island of Lampedusa on Sunday with Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni