Giorgia Meloni
Prime Minister of Italy since 2022
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| 2025 | Ranked as the most powerful person in Europe by Politico. |
| January 19 2025 | Involved in the arrest and subsequent release of Libyan general Osama Elmasry Njeem, who was indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. |
| January 8 2025 | Announces the release of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala from Iranian detention and personally welcomes her at Rome Ciampino Airport. |
| 2024 | Forbes maintained Meloni's fourth-place ranking. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She received the Atlantic Council's Global Citizen Award. She was awarded the Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic by Spain. Ukraine bestowed upon her the Member of the Order of Liberty. Politico Europe ranked her as Europe's Most Powerful Person in their Class of 2025. |
| 2024 | Meloni was named Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic by Spain. |
| 2024 | Politico Europe ranked Meloni as Europe's Most Powerful Person in their Class of 2025. |
| 2024 | Meloni was awarded Member of the Order of Liberty by Ukraine. |
| 2024 | Time magazine named Meloni as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. |
| 2024 | Forbes ranked Meloni fourth in their most powerful women list for the second consecutive year. |
| 2024 | Meloni received the Atlantic Council's Global Citizen Award. |
| 2024 | Elected to the European Parliament, representing the Central Italy constituency for the Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, receiving 611,847 votes. |
| December 2024 | Ranked as the third most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. |
| October 18 2024 | Travels to Lebanon, meets acting Prime Minister Najib Mikati, and assures solidarity with Lebanon and UNIFIL. |
| August 12 2024 | Meloni characterized as 'surrealist' the European Commission's court case over Italian government's social policy favoring Italian citizens over recent non-citizen immigrants. |
| July 2024 | Meloni was awarded damages in a defamation lawsuit against journalist Giulia Cortese for body-shaming comments and an altered photo comparing her to Mussolini. |
| June 2024 | Meloni criticizes the EU's ban on new petrol and diesel car sales from 2035, arguing against strategic dependencies on China's electric vehicles while supporting emissions reduction 'with common sense'. |
| June 15 2024 | Hosts the 50th G7 summit in Borgo Egnazia, Apulia, discussing wars in Ukraine and Middle East, climate change, China, migration, and economy, with Pope Francis becoming the first pope to address a G7 summit. |
| April 28 2024 | Announced her candidacy for the European Parliament elections, ultimately becoming the most voted candidate with her party winning 28.8% of votes. |
| April 28 2024 | Announces her candidacy for the European Parliament elections. |
| 2023 | Forbes elevated Meloni to fourth place in their ranking of most powerful women in the world. |
| 2023 | Imposed a full arms embargo on Israel after the invasion of Gaza, reversing her previous pro-Israel stance. |
| 2023 | Meloni received the Grand Cross of the Order of the White Rose of Finland. |
| 2023 | Meloni's government passed legislation stipulating that only a child's biological parent can be named on their birth certificate. |
| November 2023 | Meloni inaugurated a major exhibition on J.R.R. Tolkien at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, marking the 50th anniversary of the author's death. |
| November 3 2023 | Meloni officially presented a comprehensive constitutional reform proposal, which included the direct election of the Prime Minister by popular vote (premierato) and a new electoral law allocating 55% of parliamentary seats to the winning coalition in general elections. |
| October 20 2023 | Meloni announced her split from her partner following controversial off-air statements described as 'sexist' and 'chauvinist'. |
| September 2023 | During an unprecedented migration crisis, Meloni responded to over 120 boats carrying around 7,000 migrants arriving on Lampedusa within 24 hours. She wrote to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen requesting her to visit Lampedusa and accelerate the implementation of an agreement with Tunisia to address the migration situation. |
| July 2023 | Official trip to the United States, meeting with congressional leaders and President Joe Biden at the White House. |
| July 16 2023 | Travels to Tunis with Ursula von der Leyen and Mark Rutte to sign an agreement with President Kais Saied on economic partnership and migration. |
| June 27 2023 | Meloni's cabinet appointed army corps general Francesco Paolo Figliuolo as Extraordinary Commissioner for Reconstruction after weeks of governmental tensions. |
| May 2023 | Attends the 49th G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan. |
| May 25 2023 | Meloni visited flooded areas with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, praising the resilient spirit of the Romagnol people. |
| May 23 2023 | Italy's Council of Ministers approved a €2 billion recovery package in response to severe floods in Emilia-Romagna that killed 17 people and displaced 50,000. |
| April 2023 | Makes an official visit to Ethiopia, meets Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, announces the 'Mattei Plan' for African investments, and meets the African Union Commission chair Moussa Faki. |
| March 2023 | Hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Rome. |
| March 2 2023 | Visits India, meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Droupadi Murmu, praising Modi during a press conference. |
| February 26 2023 | A migrant boat sank near Crotone, Calabria, resulting in at least 86 deaths, including 12 children. Meloni expressed deep sorrow and condemned human trafficking. |
| February 22 2023 | Visits Ukraine, meets President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and visits Bucha to acknowledge the Russian forces' atrocities, reaffirming Italy's support for Ukraine. |
| January 2023 | Visits Algeria and signs a gas supply deal with President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, making Algeria Italy's largest gas supplier. |
| 2022 | Forbes ranked Giorgia Meloni as the seventh most powerful woman in the world. |
| 2022 | Won the first-past-the-post election in the Abruzzo – L'Aquila constituency for the Chamber of Deputies, receiving 104,823 votes (51.5%) as part of the Centre-right coalition. |
| 2022 | After winning the Italian general election, Meloni's party pledged to review the COVID-19 pandemic government policies and end the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. |
| 2022 | Implemented measures to remove COVID-19 vaccination certificate (Green Pass) and re-integrated non-vaccinated doctors into service. |
| December 2022 | Meloni announced a plan for constitutional reform, proposing to strengthen the powers of the Prime Minister by involving Elisabetta Casellati to meet with opposition parties and develop a roadmap. |
| November 15 2022 | Participates in the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, and has her first bilateral meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden. |
| November 7 2022 | Participated in her first international summit, the United Nations COP27 in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, delivering a speech on decarbonization and meeting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. |
| November 3 2022 | Meets European Union leaders in Brussels, including Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel, Paolo Gentiloni, and Roberta Metsola. |
| October 2022 | Became Prime Minister of Italy, making history as the first woman to hold this position. |
| October 31 2022 | Government approved a controversial decree providing up to six years of imprisonment for illegal parties and rallies, which was criticized by civil rights associations and Amnesty International for potentially undermining the right to peaceful protest. |
| October 25 2022 | During a parliamentary vote of confidence, Meloni explicitly stated she has never had sympathy for undemocratic regimes, including fascism, and condemned the 1938 racial laws. |
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