Meloni sees the elections as a “turning point” for a true Europe

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni presented the upcoming European elections as early elections “turning point” To put the European Union on the side of the far right, during his party's last election rally in Rome. “We have a clear goal. We want to do in Brussels what we did in Rome.”said Giorgia Meloni, whose post-fascist Fratelli d'Italia party won the September 2022 legislative elections.

She said she wanted to “Build a right-wing government in Europe as well, and return once and for all to the opposition the left that has done so much damage to our continent all these years.”“. “We are at a turning point and it feels like a referendum between two opposing visions of Europe.”She told thousands of supporters gathered in Piazza del Popolo in central Rome.

European Union “We must be a partner of nation-states, not a superstructure that stifles them.”She said in a speech she delivered for an hour in front of a sign that read: “With Georgia, Italy changes Europe“.

The European Union is a “paradise for bureaucrats”

She accused the European Union of focusing too much on regulation, especially on environmental issues, and of turning into an extremist state “Heaven for bureaucrats” And one “Hell is for those who do business”.

Opinion polls predict the rise of far-right parties in Europe, although traditional parties are expected to remain in the lead in the European Parliament. Giorgia Meloni is the leader of one of the far-right groups, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR).

The French National Rally is part of the Identity and Democracy II party, from which the AfD was recently excluded following a series of scandals involving one of its leaders, Maximilian Krah, who is particularly suspected of closeness to Russia and China.