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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, smiles as she arrives at the general assembly of the BIE , Tuesday, June 20, 2023 in Paris. 20 June 2023. Three candidatures for World Expo 2030 will be considered for election in November 2023: the Republic of Korea, for Busan, Italy, for Rome, and Saudi Arabia, for Riyadh. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Italy’s Meloni and France’s Macron express agreement on migration following policy dispute

By Sylvie Corbet and Angela Charlton - Associated Press

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni gestures as she attends a ceremony to mark Italy's Liberation day at the unknown soldier monument, in Rome, Tuesday, April 25, 2023. The anniversary marks the day in 1945 when the Italian resistance movement proclaimed an insurgency as the Allies were pushing German forces out of the peninsula. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italy’s Meloni calls for unity on Liberation Day anniversary

By Giada Zampano - Associated Press

Migrants associations members show banners reading in Italian "All brothers, we want peace because we know war, residence permit" during a protest against Italy's government's migrants' policy in Rome, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy’s lawmakers to debate contested immigration crackdown

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

The Italian coast guard ship Peluso enters the Sicilian harbor of Catania, Italy, Monday, April 17, 2023, with some 300 migrants saved from the sea. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Italy pushes crackdown on migrants reaching its shores

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

A man walks amid the graves of the 335 victims of one of the worst World War II-era massacres in German-occupied Italy at the Ardeatine Caves in Rome, on its 79th anniversary, Friday, March 24, 2023. 335 people were shot to death on March 24, 1944, as a reprisal for an attack by partisans that killed 33 Nazi soldiers on a street in Rome. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Italy partisans criticize Meloni over Nazi massacre comment

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Police check a fishing boat with some 500 migrants in the southern Italian port of Crotone, early Saturday, March 11, 2023. The Italian coast guard was responding to three smugglers boats carrying more than 1,300 migrants “in danger” off Italy’s southern coast, officials said Friday. Three small coast guard boats were rescuing a boat with 500 migrants about 70 nautical miles off the Calabria region, which forms the toe of the Italian boot. (AP Photo/Valeria Ferraro)

Italy estimates 680K migrants might cross sea from Libya

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni sworn in as Italian premier

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni gestures flanked by Coldiretti Ettore Prandini, left, prior to speaks during an Italian farmers association's event, at the Sforzesco Castle in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

History As It Happens: From Mussolini to Meloni

By Martin Di Caro

Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni delivers her speech during an Italian farmers association's event, at the Sforzesco Castle in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Italy’s Meloni vows to put national energy interests first

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Far-Right party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni shows a placard reading in Italian "Thank you Italy" at her party's electoral headquarters in Rome, early Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. Italians voted in a national election that might yield the nation's first government led by the far right since the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Giorgia Meloni baloney: She’s no ‘right-wing extremist’

By Cal Thomas

Far-Right party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni flashes the victory sign at her party's electoral headquarters in Rome, early Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. Italian voters rewarded Giorgia Meloni's euroskeptic party with neo-fascist roots, propelling the country toward what likely would be its first far-right-led government since World War II, based on partial results Monday from the election for Parliament. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

First female premier poised to take helm of Italy government

By Nicole Winfield and Frances D'emilio and Giada Zampano - Associated Press

Far-right Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni votes at a polling station in Rome, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. Italians are voting in a national election that might yield the nation's first government led by the far right since the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Far-right Meloni on path to power in landmark Italian vote

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

Brothers of Italy's Leader Giorgia Meloni attends the center-right coalition closing rally in Rome Thursday, Sep. 22, 2022. Italians vote on Sunday for a new Parliament, and they could elect their first far-right premier of the post-war era. If opinion polls hold, Giorgia Meloni could be that premier, as well as become the first woman to lead an Italian government. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italians vote in election that may bring far-right to power

By Frances D'Emilio and Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

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, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Riding high in voter opinion surveys for weeks now, Meloni might become Italy's first far-right premier since the end of World War II. Italy will elect a new Parliament on Sept. 25. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)

The politicians vying to lead Italy’s next government

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

A poster of Italy's candidate premier Giorgia Meloni stands on the side of a bus in Rome, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Italy could be on the verge of electing its first woman premier. That prospect delights some Italian women, but others are dismayed by her conservative beliefs and policies. If opinion polls prove on the mark, Giorgia Meloni and the far-right Brothers of Italy party she co-founded less than a decade ago will triumph in Sept. 25 elections for Parliament. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Meloni’s surge has far-right on the brink of power in Rome

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

A woman carries backpacks as her son walks after coming out of a primary school, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. Italy could be on the verge of electing its first woman premier. That prospect delights some Italian women, but others are dismayed by her conservative beliefs and policies. If opinion polls prove on the mark, Giorgia Meloni and the far-right Brothers of Italy party she co-founded less than a decade ago will triumph in Sept. 25 elections for Parliament. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Prospect of far-right female premier divides Italian women

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Fratelli d' Italia (Brothers of Italy) party leader Giorgia Meloni speaks during a center-right opposition rally in Rome's central Piazza del Popolo, Saturday, July 4, 2020. The far-right candidate, who aspires to be Italy’s first female premier, came under fire Monday Aug. 22, 2022 from opponents for posting a pixelized video that purports to show a woman being raped by an asylum seeker. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, File)

Italy’s Meloni shocks opponents with alleged rape video

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Thousands of protesters gather for ‘Italian pride’ rally

By GIADA ZAMPANO - Associated Press