In Italy, Behind the "Meloni Model" of "Serious Budget" Praised by the French Right and Extreme Right, an Illiberal Drift

Le Monde

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ANALYSIS. The President of the Italian Council has become, since her accession to power in 2022, a model to which the French rights dream, even though her alleged success is more of a story than of reality, as productivity pains and poverty progresses in Italy.

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The country has learned lessons from the past: its budgetary discipline is paying off, but population decline is jeopardizing growth.