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  • Italy: we present to you the five key ministers to understand the first government of far-right leader Giorgia Meloni

    Italy: we present to you the five key ministers to understand the first government of far-right leader Giorgia Meloni

    The government team formed by the leader of the far-right Fratelli d’Italia party was sworn in on Saturday morning. Objective of the new President of the Council: to show that she wishes to reassure the partners of Italy, the founder of Europe and the third economy of the European Union.

    Giorgia Meloni, the President of the Italian Council, surrounded by Matteo Salvini (the League, far right), her Minister in charge of Infrastructure and Transport (on the right in the photo), and Silvio Berlusconi (leader of Forza Italia), in Rome, the Italian capital, on October 21, 2022. (BARIS SECKIN / ANADOLU AGENCY / AFP)

    He gave him the silver bell used by the President of the Council to regulate the debates in the Council of Ministers. The transfer of power between Mario Draghi and Giorgia Meloni, the new (more…)

  • Italy: Giorgia Meloni’s government takes oath

    Italy: Giorgia Meloni’s government takes oath

    Giorgia Meloni, the far-right Italian Prime Minister, was first sworn in before the President of the Republic on Saturday October 22.

    The first Italian government family photo was taken on the morning of Saturday, October 22. In the presidential palace, Giorgia Meloni was sworn in first before the President of the (more…)

  • Italy: Emmanuel Macron’s first meeting with Giorgia Meloni

    Italy: Emmanuel Macron’s first meeting with Giorgia Meloni

    The President of the Republic is traveling to Rome, Sunday October 23, for a conference on peace, before meeting Pope Francis. Live on site, we find Anne Bourse.

    The agenda of the President of the Republic is full for this visit to Italy, Sunday, October 23. But will Emmanuel Macron add a first meeting with the new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni? (more…)

  • Ukraine: what to remember from Sunday, October 23

    Ukraine: what to remember from Sunday, October 23

    While Moscow accuses kyiv of preparing a “dirty bomb”, Emmanuel Macron still wants to believe that “peace is possible”.

    Ukrainian firefighters try to put out a fire at energy facilities, in the Rivne region (western Ukraine), on October 22, 2022. (VITALIY KOVAL TELEGRAM / AFP)

    As a peace summit was held in Rome on Sunday October 23, the Kremlin accused Ukraine of preparing to use a “dirty bomb”. Allegations rejected by kyiv and Washington who say they fear a pretext for an escalation. Summarizes the information to remember from this day. (more…)

  • Italy: Emmanuel Macron met Giorgia Meloni in Rome

    Italy: Emmanuel Macron met Giorgia Meloni in Rome

    Traveling to Rome, Italy, Emmanuel Macron met the new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday October 23. The journalist Anne Bourse, live from Rome for the 8 Hours of France 2, Monday, takes stock of this interview.

    Emmanuel Macron has been traveling to Rome, Italy, since Sunday October 23. The Head of State, who will be received by the Pope on Monday, met the new Italian Prime Minister (more…)

  • Italy: Council President Giorgia Meloni denies any “sympathy” or “closeness” to fascism

    Italy: Council President Giorgia Meloni denies any “sympathy” or “closeness” to fascism

    During her general policy speech, the new head of the Italian government tried to reassure Brussels and Rome’s partners.Italy’s new Council President Giorgia Meloni speaks on October 25, 2022, during her maiden speech to Parliament. She is alongside Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini, before a vote of confidence at the Montecitirio palace in Rome. (ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP)

    Giorgia Meloni seeks to shed the “post-fascist” label. The new president of the Italian Council denied Tuesday, October 25, any “proximity” with fascism, during her speech on general (more…)

  • Italy: Giorgia Meloni shows pledges to the international community

    Italy: Giorgia Meloni shows pledges to the international community

    Giorgia Meloni, new Prime Minister, addressed Italian MPs on Tuesday 25 October during her general policy speech. A speech in which she showed pledges to the international community, as explained by journalist Raphaële Schapira, live from Rome.

    The new Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, addressed MEPs during her general policy speech on Tuesday 25 October. “The far-right leader has shown pledges to the international community. First to NATO, by reaffirming her clear and total support for Ukraine. Then to Europe, with its Ministers of Economy and of Foreign Affairs who are rather pro-European”, explains journalist Raphaële Schapira, live from Rome (Italy). (more…)

  • A fragile hope for peace in Ethiopia

    A fragile hope for peace in Ethiopia

    It is one of the deadliest conflicts on the planet: the war in northern Ethiopia in East Africa has been going on for two years. For the first time, direct negotiations are opening in South Africa, between the government and the rebels of Tigray.

    People walk past a damaged military truck in Hayk, Ethiopia, on December 13, 2021. (AMANUEL SILESHI)

    It is a note of hope in a forgotten conflict, almost neglected by the international community, especially since the start of the war in Ukraine. Negotiations, after a false start in early October, finally start on Monday, October 24, in a secret location in South Africa. (more…)

  • Burkina Faso: Ibrahim Traore, young putschist at the head of the country of honest men

    Burkina Faso: Ibrahim Traore, young putschist at the head of the country of honest men

    The new head of the military junta has made it known that he will respect the commitments already made for a rapid return of civilians to power.

    Burkina Faso’s new junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore attends a meeting in Ouagadougou on October 2, 2022. (AFP)

    Captain Ibrahim Traoré, author of the last coup in Burkina Faso, officially became president of Burkina Faso on Wednesday, October 5, pending the appointment of a transitional president by “National Assizes”. (more…)

  • Coups in West Africa: “Terrorism has made the democratic agenda secondary”, notes researcher Francis Laloupo

    Coups in West Africa: “Terrorism has made the democratic agenda secondary”, notes researcher Francis Laloupo

    The international relations teacher analyzes recent democratic setbacks in Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea. Maintenance.

    A man reads a newspaper on which appears on the front page a photo of Captain Ibrahim Traore, the leader of the military junta which rules Burkina Faso, in Ouagadougou, on October 3, 2022. (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP)

    Francis Laloupo is the author of Democratic Blues 1990-2020, published by Karthala editions. The journalist and researcher associated with the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (Iris) analyzes, among other things, “the crisis of democratic transitions in Africa”. (more…)