Francesca De Benedetti is senior editor at the Italian daily Domani, where she covers European politics. In 2024 she has been a fellow at IWM Vienna, where she won the Milena Jesenská Fellowship for Journalists with a project on “Giorgia Meloni and Viktor Orbán: An Asymmetric Interdependence”. De Benedetti writes columns for Vanity Fair and Jacobin (USA); her writing on Italian politics has been published by the International Press Institute, Die Presse, Balkan Insight, The Independent, and other international outlets. De Benedetti previously worked as a reporter at la Repubblica and La7tv. She co-founded the European Focus newsletter, a cross-border editorial production (Balkan Insight, Delfi, Domani, El Confidencial, Gazeta Wyborcza, HVG, Libération, n-ost, Tagesspiegel).