\u201cSome of us are aware that the rule of law in Italy has deteriorated under the current government,\u201d Greens lawmaker Daniel Freund told POLITICO.<\/p>\n
Freund pointed to \u201ca difference between the general political perception of Meloni\u2019s government here in Brussels and in Germany and the concrete things happening on the ground.\u201d With that, he was referring to acceptance for Meloni by the center-right European People\u2019s Party in Brussels (and the closely associated Christian Democrats in Germany). <\/p>\n
In October last year, Meloni\u2019s right-wing party beefed up its\u00a0domestic ban on surrogacy<\/a>\u00a0to include arrangements made abroad, imposing penalties of up to \u20ac1 million and two years in prison for violations. The Italian government also\u00a0previously opposed a European Commission<\/a>\u00a0regulation aimed at recognizing same-sex parents across EU borders.<\/p>\n Meloni\u2019s administration as well proposed reforms of the legal system that have raised alarms about executive overreach and\u00a0threats to judicial independence<\/a>. Allegations of media interference and censorship\u00a0have added<\/a>\u00a0to concerns about democratic backsliding.<\/p>\n Nicola Procaccini, Meloni\u2019s right-hand man in the the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists grouping in Parliament, opposed the hearing, according to an internal email. He said selected speakers were left-skewed and all openly critical of the Italian government.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not a first step, but a single meeting within the framework of the monitoring group\u2019s work program,\u201d Procaccini told POLITICO, downplaying the hearing\u2019s significance. \u201cSimilar meetings have already taken place regarding the rule of law in Slovakia, Malta, Romania, and Hungary \u2014 with further meetings planned, including in Bulgaria and Spain,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSome of us are aware that the rule of law in Italy has deteriorated under the current government,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[45787,31,2000,299,5187,2440,2199,1106,7338],"class_list":{"0":"post-98560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-daniel-freund","9":"tag-democracy","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-giorgia-meloni","14":"tag-italy","15":"tag-judiciary","16":"tag-rule-of-law"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114501597627005165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}