Italy PM Meloni announces candidacy at EU election
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced on Sunday she will be a candidate at June's European elections in a bid to boost support for her Brothers of Italy party, though she will not take up a seat if elected. The June 6-9 European Parliament vote is a key test of strength for her 18-month-old rightist coalition. "We want to do in Europe what we did in Italy... create a majority that brings together the centre-right forces and send the left into opposition," Meloni told cheering party faithful at a party conference in the coastal city of Pescara to set out EU policies a...