Overview
- The milestone reached Friday, September 4, 2026, marks 1,413 uninterrupted days for Giorgia Meloni’s cabinet and is being celebrated with a public event in Bari.
- Meloni has traded early campaign rhetoric for pragmatic foreign policy, keeping Italy aligned with the EU and NATO and continuing steady support for Ukraine while relations with President Trump have cooled.
- Domestic results are mixed: nearly 900,000 jobs were added and unemployment fell, yet growth stayed weak, public debt remains high, and key reform efforts failed, most notably the March justice‑reform referendum.
- Migration measures have cut arrivals since 2024 through bilateral deals and tighter rules, but planned offshore centres faced legal limits and rescue NGOs say restrictions have made life‑saving operations harder and increased deaths at sea.
- Political risks persist: the three‑party coalition holds but shows strain from internal tensions and frequent emergency decrees, and the further‑right Futuro Nazionale, polling around seven percent, could reshape right‑wing dynamics in the 2027 vote.