notes with timestamps:
*0:01* This press conference took place in Rome on the 9th of January.
*0:02* Atreju = annual event organised by the youth wing of Fratelli d'Italia (Meloni's party), it is named after the main character in The Neverending Story who fights against The Nothing, the choice of this name for the festival is supposed to represent the fight against nihilism.
*0:03* Palazzo Chigi = official residence of the Italian prime minister.
*0:04* prize at the Atlantic Council = Musk presented Meloni with a Global Citizen award at a ceremony in New York in September 2024
*0:12* Starlink = Italy is considering using Musk's Starlink for encrypted communication in war zones, this has proved controversial with some in Italy saying Starlink should not be trusted to handle this confidential data.
*0:34* Marine Le Pen and the AfD fell out last year, partly due to some AfD members attending a meeting on remigration, and partly due to a comment by the AfD's leader in the European parliament (Maximilian Krah) saying not all SS members were criminals.
*0:38* attacked Scholz in a personal manner = Musk called Scholz a fool on X (Musk used the German word "narr") https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1854558548732121169
*3:28* Enrico Letta = leader of the main centre-left party (the PD) in the last Italian election (September 2022).
*3:30* "don't vote for Giorgia Meloni" = Scholz said "It's important our sister party wins (the PD), and not the post-fascist Meloni".
*4:44* Mattarella = Italian president Sergio Mattarella, without naming Musk, said in November, "Italy is a great democratic country and … knows how to take care of itself. Anyone, particularly if, as announced, he is about to assume an important role in the government of a friendly and allied country, must respect its sovereignty and cannot give himself the task of issuing it instructions."
This was after Musk said Italian judges who had blocked a plan to send asylum seekers to Albania "had to go".
*5:35* Steve Bannon = here is the Bloomberg article (behind a paywall) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-08/elon-musk-s-political-interventions-in-uk-germany-put-targets-on-back-foot
*6:07* Fusani = Claudia Fusani, the journalist who asked Meloni the question.
*source*: Office of Italian Prime Minister (Palazzo Chigi) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAJpv1vodU0
*endscreen video*: Ambient_Nature_Atmosphere https://pixabay.com/videos/river-lake-water-alpes-dolomiti-126523/t
*endscreen music*: Nat Keefe with The Bow Ties - Dude, Where's My Horse? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okpgzECmAoA
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