Europeans are voting for a Parliament to represent 450 million people in 27 countries.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the construction site of a migrant processing center in Shengjin, Albania, on June 5. PARIS — The courtship of Giorgia Meloni, a long-running drama, reaches an inflection point this week, as Europeans across 27 nations go to the polls. The outcome of the— along with the continent’s stance on defense, climate change, migration and the economy — might depend largely on the shape-shifting Italian prime minister.
As head of Italy’s 69th government since World War II, the first headed by a woman, Meloni has grappled with one of the world’s highest debt burdens and lowest birthrates, not to mention aYet she has played a weak hand shrewdly. So shrewdly, in fact, that Meloni is regarded as the key power broker in jockeying expected to follow elections culminating Sunday to the Parliament representing the European Union’s 450 million people.
The Italian leader, no one’s fool, is biding her time. She is keeping options open — along with an eye on, it would mean that von der Leyen, seeking a second five-year term as the E.U.’s chief executive, could struggle to cobble together a coalition with her diminished centrist allies. She has made no secret that she might want or need backing from Meloni’s faction.
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