Giorgia Meloni’s rise to Italian prime minister was an important break with her country’s recent past. She is the first woman to serve in her role and, as was widely reported when she took office in October, the first far-right leader since the end of World War II. Indeed, her party’s politics initially caused a great deal of uncertainty and even some concern about how her government would approach transatlantic cooperation. Other far-right parties in Europe, after all, hold starkly antagonistic views toward NATO and the European Union (EU).
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