Francesca De Benedetti is a senior editor at the Italian daily Domani, where she covers European politics. In 2024, she was a fellow at Vienna’s Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), where she worked on the project “Giorgia Meloni and Viktor Orbán: An Asymmetric Interdependence”. De Benedetti’s work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Jacobin, The Independent, Balkan Insight, and the International Press Institute, among others.