Francesca De Benedetti is senior editor at the daily Domani, where she covers European politics. In 2024 she was 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; her writing on Italian and European politics has been published by several international outlets such as the International Press Institute, Die Presse, Balkan Insight, and The Independent. De Benedetti also cofounded the European Focus newsletter, a cross-border editorial production.