ROME – Italy’s “far-right” Premier Giorgia Meloni on Sunday rejected criticism from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G7 Summit about her government’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights.
A reporter asked Meloni about the criticism at a news conference early Sunday in Hiroshima, Japan, which is hosting the annual summit of leaders from seven of the world’s leading industrialized nations.
Meloni should have kicked PM Groomer in the nutz.
If looks could kill.
Starting a family in Italy is becoming a “titanic effort” that only the rich can afford, Pope Francis has warned.
Addressing a conference on Italy’s demographic crisis, he said pets were replacing children in many households.
Also on stage were dozens of young people, wearing t-shirts saying “we can do this” – alluding to convincing people to have more children.
Italy has one of the lowest fertility rates in the EU and births dropped below 400,000 last year – a new low.
Francesco Lollobrigida, an Italian minister and high-ranking member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) party, has warned that the country risks “ethnic replacement” due to the sustained mass influx of foreigners paired with dismally low birthrates, thereby prompting the ire of the country’s left-globalist opposition.
Lollobrigida, Italy’s Agriculture Minister, made his comments in response to recent figures released by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) which revealed that, at 393,000, the number of births recorded last year was the lowest since 1861, when the country unified, the Milan-based newspaper Corriere della Sera reports.
With those numbers, Italy recorded the third-lowest birth rate in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
In a scathing speech receiving global attention, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni tore into one of her colleagues this week for evincing something less than zeal in support of Europe’s efforts to help Ukraine fend off the Russian invasion.
Italian demographer: As of now, we will find ourselves entering the second half of this century with completely empty maternity wards.
To understand what Italy will be like in a generation, you don’t need to have the talent of Jean Dutourd, the writer and member of the Académie Française who in 1975 published “2024”, a great novel where he imagines a country where they no longer have children:
“On the street, I saw a child. He was shaking hands with his dad, in his thirties. What a curious sight! Already a man in his thirties is not something you see often. Especially accompanied by a child. I was enraptured. And I wasn’t the only one to be. Everyone turned to look. A lady stopped, a gentleman dropped his walking stick. Dad was aware of the strangeness of the situation. He looked provocatively at passers-by, as if to tell them: ‘All right, I’m young, I have a son, I go for a walk together, I talk to him in front of everyone. I love him, I introduce him to life, or at least to what I know of it. If anyone is bothered by all this, come and say it to my face!’ The faces of the people offered an exhilarating scene: a little disgusted, a little scandalized, but above all amazed”.
An update to the story that The Point discussed here.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni vowed to resist mass migration. The low bar at stake here is the migrant smuggling operation in which NGOs pick up mostly Muslim migrants and “rescue them” by transporting them to Italy.
The new Italian government lightly put its foot down and refused to let the male migrants leave the smuggling ships and enter Italy.
Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader and likely next Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni sharply criticised a French minister over remarks that France may monitor the country for violations of rights and freedoms.
Wow! European Union bureaucrats and heads of governments are learning the hard way to stop threatening and dumping on the choice of Italian voters to entrust their government to Giorgia Meloni.
Voters in yet another EU nation turned away from the leftward tilt of Brussels and more toward self-determination. Italy has elected its first right-wing coalition government in decades, and will almost certainly have its first female prime minister. Georgia Meloni led her Brothers of Italy into a dominant role in the coalition, as both CNN and Reuters describe this as “the most right-wing government since World War II”:
ROME — Italy turned a page of European history on Sunday by electing a hard-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni, whose long record of bashing the European Union, international bankers and migrants has sown concern about the nation’s reliability in the Western alliance.
Results released early Monday showed that Ms. Meloni, the leader of the nationalist Brothers of Italy, a party descended from the remnants of fascism, had led a right-wing coalition to a majority in Parliament, defeating a fractured left and a resurgent anti-establishment movement.
Is hard right the new far right?
Italian nationalist conservative threatens EU progressive hegemony — so the US media goes all ‘fake news’ about her
For the hundredy-hundredth time, let me say: the reporting of the US media on the European Right is not to be believed. I don’t say that as a right-winger who gets his nose out of joint when CBS News calls a politician I like “fascist.” I do get my nose out of joint, but that’s my problem. It’s your problem because you depend on the news media to tell you what’s happening in the world, and they are entirely misleading you. You don’t have to see this as a conspiracy; they lie to themselves about what’s going on, because they have been trained to disable their own skeptical instincts when it comes to maintaining the Narrative.
If everyone is Mussolini then nobody is.
Italy expected to have first far-right government since Mussolini, election projections show https://t.co/CRS7mpTaoP
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 25, 2022
Italians are deciding whether to choose their most right-wing government since World War Two, in an election being followed closely across Europe.
Giorgia Meloni leads the far-right Brothers of Italy party and is aiming to become the country’s first female prime minister allied with two other parties on the right.
She has softened her image and resents being linked to Italy’s fascist past.
She backs Western sanctions on Russia and has toned down rhetoric on Europe.
Italy is on the verge of an election that will result in its first-ever female Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni.
One of Europe's most authoritarian politicians, the unelected EU Commission President @vonderleyen, is threatening to sanction Italy if its citizens vote for her party. https://t.co/vzLebA1vH7
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 24, 2022
A video of the candidate runs in a loop on a screen next to the stage. Smiling nonstop and shaking hands, Giorgia Meloni’s voice booms over the Piazza del Carmine as it fills with people. They have come to Cagliari, Sardinia’s largest city, to hear the politician with the best chance of becoming Italy’s next prime minister and the first woman to hold the post. Polls ahead of the September 25 general election have shown her as the favorite for the role.
