The American businessman and the British leader will attend a political rally this weekend organized by the Italian leader's far-right Fratelli d'Italia party.
American billionaire Elon Musk and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will attend a political rally in Rome this weekend organized by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's far-right Fratelli d'Italia party, a spokesman confirmed on Wednesday.
Founded in 1998, the festival called Atreyu, which runs Thursday through Sunday in the Italian capital, has become a major event for the right and far-right over the years, but has also sometimes opened its doors to center-left politicians.
Good relations between London and Rome
This year he has to greet the owner
Another distinguished guest, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, maintains good relations with Giorgia Meloni. The two leaders vowed to tackle the problem posed by the large number of arrivals on their country's shores and signed a joint letter in October calling on European Union leaders to take tougher measures against to take action against “illegal immigration”.
Also expected at the Atreyu festival is Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, who recently reached an agreement with Rome to set up two reception centers in his country for migrants rescued by the Italian coast guard.
Giorgia Meloni, as a member of a right-wing extremist youth organization, helped found the Atreyu Festival in 1998, whose name is inspired by a character from the novel The Neverending Story.
The leader of the Spanish far right was also present
Former Donald Trump strategist Steve Bannon attended in 2018 as he sought to build a Europe-wide right-wing movement, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban attended the following year. At the time, Giorgia Meloni's party was only a marginal force in Italian politics.
Four years later, he surprisingly won the parliamentary elections and promised to put an end to mass immigration to the peninsula.
She was also the first woman to lead Italy and led a right-wing coalition that included Matteo Salvini of the Anti-Immigration League and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative Forza Italia party. According to the official festival program, Santiago Abascal, leader of the Spanish right-wing extremist party Vox, is among the guests expected in Rome.
The latter was criticized by the Spanish government on Monday for suggesting that Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez would ultimately be hanged “by his feet,” a fate that reminds Italians of the end of dictator Benito Mussolini in Milan in 1945. Pedro Sanchez's Socialist Party also filed a lawsuit with the courts on Wednesday, demanding that the leader of Spain's far-right be prosecuted for “hate crimes” and “insults, slanders and serious threats against the government of the nation.”