Giorgia Meloni is experiencing her lowest point since being elected in 2022. The defeat at the polls of her controversial reform of the judiciary, which More than 54% of Italians rejected the proposal in a constitutional referendum held this Sunday and Monday.This has caused an earthquake in the hitherto stable Italian government.

With more than 53.5% of the votes, Italy rejected a controversial justice reform promoted by the government of Giorgia MeloniThe referendum, held this Sunday and Monday, was intended to amend several articles of the Constitution, but it has ended up becoming a plebiscite on the Prime Minister's performance, resulting in her first major defeat at the polls since her election in 2022. "BK_SLT_LNA~" promised: to push through a judicial reform that was written in our electoral program. "We defended it to the very end, and then we left the choice in the hands of the citizens," Meloni stated in a video posted on social media, acknowledging the initiative's failure. The separation of the careers of judges and prosecutors was one of the most controversial issues introduced by the reform. The technicalities of the first weeks of the campaign gave way to mutual attacks between the government, the opposition, and the judiciary, which largely opposed a reform it feared would jeopardize the independence of the judiciary. "If the reform is not approved, we will find ourselves with even more negligent judges advancing in their careers and even more surreal decisions affecting the lives of citizens." "Illegal immigrants, rapists, pedophiles, and drug traffickers released from prison will sow chaos without any legal consequences," the victim went so far as to say, justifying a constitutional reform that included the creation of a court exclusively to judge the professional or ethical misconduct of judges.

In his crusade against irregular immigration, The Italian government built a very expensive detention center in Albania to deport undocumented immigrants. Intercepted in the Mediterranean Sea, the practically empty vessel began a war against rescue NGOs and limited the recognition of the right to international protection, among other measures. Now, the government led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is going a step further and proposing to block ships and expedite the summary deportations of migrants, even in countries other than their countries of origin.

With over 2,450 tons of gold, Italy holds the third-largest gold reserves in the world, behind only the United States and Germany. In the current uncertain international climate, where geopolitical crises increasingly influence markets, this metal remains a safe-haven asset par excellence; a wild card that would allow the country to weather a period of instability. But to whom does this treasure, held by its central bank, belong? This is the question that has divided Italian politicians and experts for weeks, after the government of Giorgia Meloni pushed through an amendment during negotiations on next year's budget law. This amendment explicitly states that the gold reserves deposited in Bankitalia—which have a market value of 5-0—are no longer valid. of the Italian people."

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has seemingly become the leading ideological figure in the European Union. After her plan to transfer migrants and asylum seekers to Albanian deportation camps was rejected by the Italian courts, the entire EU has now voted in a formal agreement to approve this system, which will allow each country to... export their unwanted migrants in deportation camps located in non-EU countries. In fact, yesterday's agreement is a major victory for both Meloni and the far-right's ideology, and represents a setback for the policies respecting human rights and defending human values that might still have remained in Europe.

Giorgia Meloni explains in her autobiography—just published in the United States and promoted on social media by Donald Trump—that her political activism began in the 1990s, when corruption was devastating Italy's traditional political parties. Around the same time, a multimillionaire Milanese businessman named Silvio Berlusconi announced his entry into the political arena, ushering in nearly three decades of instability and scandal.

A new website with stolen or altered photos of famous women has shaken Italy, which is once again discovering the proliferation of forums with thousands of followers who unleash the most toxic masculinity arguments by making sexist comments about the images. In this case, the victims are socially prominent women, such as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, but there are also other leading politicians, actresses and influencers.

As the far right expands electorally and occupies (or is expected to occupy) positions of power, it also generates supporters and sympathizers. This is logical, and we can also see it reflected in the mirror of history: a hundred years ago, fascisms also went from being minority and extremist movements to being accepted, supported, and applauded by broad sectors of the population. The same thing is happening now. The most prominent case of whitewashing of a far-right figure in Europe, so far, has been the premier Italian Giorgia Meloni, racist, supremacist, government ally with Salvini's League and declared admirer of Mussolini, but nevertheless applauded by Ursula von der Leyen and the European Commission as the promoter of an immigration policy as advanced as closing immigrants in detention centers in Albania. Meloni represents the "reasonable" far right, with whom it's supposedly possible to work and make progress. He's a necessary lifeline for the most immobile political, economic, and financial powers and for followers of MAGAs, MEGAs, and their ilk.

After Lugano, London, and Berlin, Rome hosted the 4th International Summit for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, led by the European Union, on Thursday. The summit aims to mobilize public and private investment to boost the country's reconstruction process after more than three years of war. During the inauguration, attended by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the creation of a European fund worth €220 million to attract private investment, with the participation of Italy, Germany, France, Poland, and the European Investment Bank.

The Meloni model is fraught with contradictions. The Italian prime minister is about to reach her first thousand days in power, having become the ideal of a "soluble" far right, as Jean-Dominique Giuliani, president of the Robert Schuman Foundation, called it, apt to dissolve into alliances of convenience or necessity. But while the European right embraces the pragmatism of Giorgia Meloni, who is climbing the ranks as a global leader of the radical right, authoritarianism is eating away at Italy's battered democracy.

The Italian Senate approved this Wednesday a controversial citizen security law that introduces new crimes, sanctions and aggravating circumstances to severely punish acts of civil disobedience or peaceful resistanceThe measure, promoted by the government of the far-right leader Giorgia Meloni, was approved by the upper house with 109 votes in favor, 69 against, and one abstention, in a tense session. The decree was described by a group of opposition senators, sitting on the floor in front of the government benches with their hands in the air and shouting "Shame, shame!" The senators described it as "a real disgrace that reveals the right's perception of security and dissent in the country."

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and French President Emmanuel Macron met Tuesday to narrow their gap on issues such as Ukraine, the Middle East, and relations with the United States, amid rising tensions between Paris and Rome.

The Italian Parliament has passed into law a decree promoted by Giorgia Meloni's government that modifies the process for recognizing Italian citizenship. The Tajani decree—named after the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani— limits the blood vessels (right of blood) to two generations of foreigners with Italian ancestry; that is, from now on only those who have parents or grandparents born in Italy will be able to receive a passport. Until last week, the legal principle of blood vessels included the descendants of anyone born in Italy after 1861, the date of the unification process. The news has fallen like a bucket of cold water in Argentina, where some 25 million people—more than half the population—have Italian surnames, and where it is estimated that between 40,000 and 60,000 applications for citizenship will now be discarded or, at least, put on hold.

Another world was possible, yes, but not the one expected. Instead of a more just and free world, more prosperous and at peace, this second quarter of the 21st century opens up a harsher, more threatening, even wilder one. The images of a chainsaw to illustrate a policy of administrative reform, that of a resort The threat of a luxury tourist project to "pacify" the Gaza Strip or the threat of a plundering of natural resources to compensate for the weapons sent to Ukraine to defend its sovereignty, are devastating for any minimum moral and democratic conscience.