Rome, July 24 (LaPresse) – "Where Giorgia Meloni is leading Europe" is the headline accompanying the in-depth article that Time magazine dedicates to the Italian Prime Minister on the cover of its August issue. The magazine traces the personal and political journey of the Prime Minister and leader of Brothers of Italy, whom the interviewer met on July 4.
In the interview, Meloni even poses a question to her interlocutor: “Is there anything about fascism that my experience reminds you of, regarding what I’m doing in government?” According to the article, she claims that her critics have used her far-right background as a weapon to attack any policy she proposes. “They’ve accused me of everything imaginable—from the war in Ukraine to people dying in the Mediterranean. It’s simply because they have no arguments,” she says.
The journalist notes that the criticism bothers her, and she revisits it while walking through Palazzo Chigi. “I am not racist,” she says. “I am not homophobic. I am not all the things they’ve said about me.” When asked what kind of nationalism she supports, Meloni replies that it is “mainly a way to defend ourselves from a globalization that hasn’t worked.”
She states her goal is to “rebuild our identity, rebuild pride, the pride in being who we are, at any cost.” The article continues by describing how Meloni is shaping a new kind of nationalism: populist, nativist, and pro-Western, yet committed to European and Atlantic alliances. “Above all, we must defend who we are, our culture, our identity, our civilization,” says the Prime Minister, who also comments on her meeting with Donald Trump at the White House: “He’s a fighter, and I’m a fighter.”
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