{"id":7049,"date":"2026-06-17T17:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=7049"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:05:27","slug":"italian-vp-picierno-forms-pro-atlantic-pro-zelensky-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/italian-vp-picierno-forms-pro-atlantic-pro-zelensky-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian VP Picierno Forms Pro-Atlantic, Pro-Zelensky Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The initiative, called <strong>&#8220;Spazio Pubblico&#8221;<\/strong> (&#8220;Public Space&#8221;), was unveiled just days after <strong>Pina Picierno<\/strong> formally left both Italy&#8217;s Democratic Party and the Socialist grouping in the European Parliament, according to <em>Brussels Signal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The new movement is positioned around a strongly pro-EU outlook combined with firm Atlanticist foreign policy commitments, particularly regarding continued Western military and political backing for Zelensky&#8217;s government in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Political observers say the project is designed to form the foundation of a new centrist bloc in Italian politics, drawing together liberal forces who reject alignment with both Prime Minister <strong>Giorgia Meloni&#8217;s<\/strong> centre-right government and the splintered centre-left opposition currently struggling for cohesion.<\/p>\n<p>If &#8220;Spazio Pubblico&#8221; gains traction, it could establish a viable third political pole competing in Italy&#8217;s 2027 general election, challenging both the governing centre-right coalition and any unified centre-left alliance that emerges ahead of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of Picierno&#8217;s departure from the Democratic Party and her simultaneous exit from the Socialist political family in Brussels suggests strategic positioning ahead of what is expected to be a highly contested electoral cycle in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Picierno&#8217;s move reflects broader tensions within Italy&#8217;s political landscape, where traditional party alignments have weakened and space has opened for new centrist formations willing to stake out clear positions on European integration and transatlantic security cooperation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/brusselssignal.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brussels Signal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Parliament Vice-President Pina Picierno has launched a pro-EU, Atlanticist movement in Italy supporting Ukraine aid, aiming to create a centrist bloc for the 2027 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":7048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[7132,485,191,7130,7131,211,229],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-7049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-atlanticism","tag-european-parliament","tag-italy","tag-pina-picierno","tag-spazio-pubblico","tag-ukraine","tag-volodymyr-zelensky","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7142,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions\/7142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=7049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}