# Stability or fiasco? Giorgia Meloni becomes Italy’s longest-serving prime minister

https://mins.news/en/video/44976

- France 24 English, 2026-09-04 07:15 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRkW9BGE8mY

> Giorgia Meloni has become the longest-serving prime minister in Italy’s postwar history. Right-wing newspapers celebrated the milestone, while left-wing papers called her leadership a fiasco. The programme also considers whether Europe is heading into a chaotic winter after a UN warning about a “supersized” El Niño that could bring heavy rain and snow, and notes the death of journalist and women’s rights icon Gloria Steinem at 92.

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