Francesca De Benedetti

🚨In Europe there's no more cordon sanitaire against the far right, while a cordon is projected against the left: a reconfiguration of political & discursive axis. BEWARE thinking that this is a reaction to recent events: the process has been underway for at least 5 years🧶THREAD

Right-wing populist Janez Jansa had the ‘upper hand’ heading into Sunday’s election in Slovenia, but then he admitted meeting a representative of the private Israeli spy firm Black Cube. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2026/03/20/isr…

As Meloni is right now trying to convince the other #EUCO leaders to suspend the #EUETS, an important reminder: It was Europe's conservatives who 2 decades ago insisted on a market-based mechanism to reduce emissions rather than regulation. They said the system would create carrots and sticks to motivate businesses to develop cleantech. Now, those countries where companies didn't do their homework (Italy, Germany) are crying foul because the system is working as it should, and companies who didn't make the investments are facing charges for their emissions. Now the same conservatives who insisted on this cap and trade scheme two decades ago (overcoming the objections of the left) want to intervene in the market which is working *the exact way they originally said it should*. If they behave this way now, who can ever believe the conservatives again when they insist on market-based solutions? It would appear that all they really want is an excuse to delay action. And people on the left are now in the strange position of having to defend a market-based mechanism they initially opposed, because they warned that this exact scenario would eventually play out. But there's no other alternative now, the ETS is the bedrock of all EU climate efforts and without it the EU has no emissions reduction strategy.

#Meloni fa partecipare l'Italia al piano per Hormuz. E copre #Orbán sullo stop ai soldi a Kiev; tanto per cambiare, anche #Salvini lunedì è a Budapest a fare il tifo per lui. Domani su 🗞️editorialedomani.it/politica/europ…

Umberto #Bossi dies. He founded #Lega Nord, which was originally launched as a secessionist party, before Matteo #Salvini transformed it into a "sovranista" party to emulate what Marine Le Pen had done with the Front/Rassemblement National.

🔴Giusto che si sappia. La bomba ecologica 🚢#ArcticMetagaz⚓️🇷🇺 che è alla deriva, potrebbe potenzialmente moltiplicare pure i danni. Ora che vaga a nord della costa occidentale della Libia sta in prossimità di: 1) una selva di piattaforme petrolifere (anche ENI) e di FSO floating storage🛢️, 2) uno sciame di petroliere, 3) un rassemblement di navi che stanno trivellando in cerca di giacimenti, 3) una ragnatela di pipeline sommerse che trasportano petrolio, 4) una costa, da Tripoli fino a Zuara, disseminata di oil terminal e impianti costieri e (5) vaga sulla stessa area marittima dove è immerso il gasdotto GreenStream che da Mellitah 🇱🇾 fino a Gela 🇮🇹 porta il gas in Italia. Ciao

Roberta Metsola is not acting on behalf of the EU Parliament’s interests: she systematically failed to defend the Parliament’s prerogatives against a bullying EU Council. she’s the first President of the EU Parliament acting as a member of the EU Council - she’s not - and committing MEPs to EUCO’s desiderata. euobserver.com/207327/what-ro…

Last night, ahead of the #EUCO summit, protesters projected the words "Trump Tower" onto the European Commission headquarters. In protest of 🇪🇺President @VonDerLeyen's continued Trump appeasement and the push to scrap EU climate & digital laws at US command.

La lettera dei dieci leader "anti Ets": #Meloni e #Orbán mettono la firma sull’energia sporca. Domani su 🗞️ editorialedomani.it/politica/europ…

Von der Leyen's latest engagement with journalists:

A major global study of democracies finds that the US under Trump is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey. trib.al/uQq44it

Solidarity

By the mere fact of having to speak at a European Parliament event on the state of #mediafreedom and democratic freedoms in #Meloni’s Italy, I have been dragged into attacks from the far right, followed by insults & misinformation from far-right outlets. Even before one can speak

Di #Hormuz si discute eccome: pensare che gli europei stiano del tutto rispedendo al mittente i ricatti di #Trump è fuorviante. Ma qualche segno di raccapriccio per la mancanza di scenari chiari arriva: #Merz e la "coalition of the unwilling". Domani su🗞️ editorialedomani.it/politica/europ…

German conservative and EPP chief Manfred Weber has insisted the “firewall” against the AfD holds in the European Parliament. But a WhatsApp group and a meeting cast doubt on that claim nordot.app/14056268590959…

NEW: Jared Kushner, one of the U.S. government’s chief negotiators in the Middle East, is working to raise $5B for his private equity firm from governments in the region, the New York Times reports. His team has already met with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which previously invested $2B in the firm. Corruption in broad daylight.

Ci lascia #Habermas, uno dei pochi grandi intellettuali di questi tempi rumorosi ma vuoti. aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/gesellschaft/d…

The EU claims to defend rights and freedoms. Yet civic space across Europe is shrinking as dissent is marginalized and NGOs targeted. A new report by @RosaluxEuropa and @EU_ENoP, authored by @FrancesDiBi, examines the impact on European democracy: rosalux.eu/en/2026/shrink…

Il cancelliere che alla Casa Bianca si diceva «allineato» sull’operazione di Trump e Netanyahu ora è costretto a marcare la distanza di sicurezza, mentre Macron invoca «calma» a una Francia che piange il primo soldato morto. Domani su 🗞️ editorialedomani.it/politica/europ…

Peter Thiel is coming to #Italy, here’s why. Droni e confessioni: la strategia di Peter #Thiel a Roma e in Europa Oggi su 🗞️ editorialedomani.it/politica/europ…

Gli illusionismi di #vonderLeyen: fa una mini-retromarcia tattica sul rispetto del diritto internazionale, ma continua a sorvolare sul disastro Trump e sulla nuova dipendenza dell'Ue dall'energia Usa. Per le bollette palliativi; niente mea culpa. Domani🗞️ editorialedomani.it/politica/europ…