Giorgia Meloni — POLITICO 28: Class of 2025 – POLITICO

Overall No. 1 — Italy

Who do you call if you want to speak to Europe? If you’re Elon Musk — the world’s richest man and a key adviser to United States President-elect Donald Trump — the number you dial belongs to Giorgia Meloni. In less than a decade, the leader of the right-wing Brothers of Italy party has gone from being dismissed as an ultranationalist kook to being elected prime minister of Italy and establishing herself as a figure with whom Brussels, and now Washington, can do business. Even as she has tacked to the center, Meloni — who began her political career as an activist in the youth wing of the neo-fa

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