She’s the far-right prime minister with whom leaders across Europe seem to love being photographed. What’s her appeal and what does she really want? With Alexander Stille
From Keir Starmer to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, every European leader seems keen to have their picture taken with Italy’s Giorgia Meloni. Yet she is the country’s first far right prime minister since the second world war and when she was elected she was talked of as a danger to Europe.
Alexander Stille, a former editor of Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper and now a professor of journalism at Columbia University, has been watching her rise. He looks at the influences that have shaped her – from her romance novelist mother to her time in the government of a previous controversial Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. And, most surprisingly of all, JRR Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings books.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/oct/14/how-giorgia-meloni-became-europes-favourite-far-right-leader-podcast
Author : Presented by Michael Safi with Alexander Stille; produced by Charlie Duffield, Tom Glasser, Mimi Ibrahim and Joel Cox; executive producer Homa Khaleeli
Publish date : 2024-10-14 02:00:10
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