She may win the Italian elections.. The Economist: Europe should not be afraid of Georgia Meloni

The British "Economist" magazine called on Europe to be reassured and not worried about the "extreme" right-wing politician Georgia Meloni assuming the premiership in Italy after the elections that will take place in the country tomorrow, Sunday.

The Economist expects that the right-wing tripartite alliance in Italy, led by the "Brothers of Italy" led by Georgia Meloni, will win more than 60% of the seats in Parliament and Meloni will take over as prime minister.

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that the next Italian leader, who will lead the most right-wing government in her country's history after World War II, will be constrained by politics, markets and money.

Her party has fascist roots

The magazine pointed out that the "Italy Brothers" party has its roots in neo-fascism, and its leader Meloni is anti-immigration and accuses the European Union of complicity in the ethnic "replacement", and defends and admires Viktor Orban, the populist Prime Minister of Hungary.

She pointed out that Meloni's victory after the success of the Swedish Democrats last week, and Marine Le Pen in France receiving 41% of the vote in her race against Emmanuel Macron last April;

Things that indicate a strong shift in the European balance towards the "radical" nationalist right.

However, the Economist says, Meloni will not be able to deliver on the pledges she made during the election campaign.

It is expected to differ early on with its allies Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo Salvini.

Difficulty implementing its anti-immigration policy

She explained that Meloni would certainly crack down on unregulated immigration, but when Mr. Salvini was last in government, between 2018 and 2019, he promised the same, only to find that obligations of international law and EU rules restricted what he could do.

Meloni will also find that she is constrained in many ways;

Among them are the roles played by the indirectly elected Italian president and the head of the Constitutional Court, who are moderate centrists.

Similar restrictions would limit the amount of damage Meloni could do to the EU, even if she wanted to.

There is no escape from cooperation with the European Union

She explained that Italy must deal with the European Union, which supports her country's reform plan, which aims to address its massive debt of $ 2.7 trillion (150% of GDP) and problems of youth employment, education and training (almost a quarter of young Italians are not in work, which is worse level in the European Union).

She noted that Meloni, unlike Salvini and Berlusconi, or Le Pen and Urban, is not a fan of Vladimir Putin.

Since the Russian attack on Ukraine, it has been a consistent and powerful voice in support of Ukraine and NATO.

The newspaper concluded by calling for Europe to accept Italy's democratic decision to elect Meloni and help it succeed, while secretly warning it of the damage that may befall both Italy and the European Union.