Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni has become both an important potential ally for EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen's efforts to guarantee her re-election in office — and for Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán's attempt to find a space among the rightwing and ultra-right conservative European Parliament groupings.
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Eleonora Vasques is a freelance journalist based in Brussels.
Eleonora Vasques is a freelance journalist based in Brussels.