"The main elements in New Right thinking include strict barriers to illegal immigration, reduced legal immigration and hostility to the EU...

They include a firm belief in the family as the bedrock of morality, communities and the nation; an effort to raise birth rates, now running well below replacement level in Europe; and a view of “wokeism”, cancel culture and retrospective blame for imperialism as dangers to democratic values.

Many parties strongly support Christianity, though they fear it will disappear within a few decades. Meloni stresses her Catholicism and attachment to the late doctrinally conservative pope Benedict XVI."

-John Lloyd, Financial Times