(Left to right) Italian multinational oil and gas company ENI's CEO Claudio Descalzi, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Libya's Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah and National Oil Corporation chief Farhat Bengdara attend an agreement-singing ceremony in the Libyan capital, on Jan 28, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) ROME/TRIPOLI – Italian energy company Eni and Libya's National Oil […]
Italy's new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni gestures as she adresses the parliament, ahead of a confidence vote at Montecitirio palace in Rome on October 25, 2022. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE / AFP) ROME – The new Italian cabinet led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni won the confidence of the lower house of parliament on Tuesday, with 235 […]
Italy's new prime minister, Giorgia Meloni reacts during the cabinet minister bell handover ceremony at Palazzo Chigi in Rome on Oct 23, 2022. (ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP) ROME – With Italy's newly installed government facing pressing domestic priorities, analysts do not expect immediate changes to the country's foreign policy line. Observers told Xinhua that Giorgia […]
Outgoing Prime Minister Mario Draghi (left) shakes hands with new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during the handover ceremony at Chigi Palace Premier's office, in Rome on Oct 23, 2022. (ANDREW MEDICHINI / AP) ROME – New Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday called for unity as she symbolically took power in a country that […]
(From left) The League's Matteo Salvini, Forza Italia's Silvio Berlusconi, Brothers of Italy's Giorgia Meloni, and Noi Con l'Italia's Maurizio Lupi, attend a rally of Italy's right-wing parties in Rome, Sept 22, 2022. (GREGORIO BORGIA / AP) ROME – The leaders of Italy's right-wing alliance put on a show of unity on Thursday and promised […]
Leader of Italian far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) Giorgia Meloni, addresses supporters during a rally as part of the campaign for general elections, in Piazza Duomo in Milan, Italy on Sept 11, 2022. (PIERO CRUCIATTI / AFP) ROME – Italy's right-wing bloc will easily agree on major policy priorities despite recent disagreements if […]
Right-wing party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni addresses a rally as she starts her political campaign ahead of Sept 25 general elections, in Ancona, Italy, on Aug 23, 2022. (DOMENICO STINELLIS / AP) ROME – In her teens, Giorgia Meloni used to sneak out at the dead of night and help plaster her Rome […]
