She Won Italians’ Hearts. But Can She Win Their Votes?<br />Marta Dassù said that What is interesting is that she is a great supporter of European integration without being Eurocentric,<br />Three years later she was elected to the European Parliament, and she has remained in the political arena — in one form or another — ever since.<br />"Ode to Joy" is also the anthem of the European Union,<br />and Ms. Bonino has placed Italy’s commitment to the bloc at the center of her new political movement, which she has named "Più Europa," or More Europe.<br />She met Adele Faccio, a women’s rights advocate and abortion rights campaigner, "who spoke to me about civil disobedience, which I’d never heard of, about the Radical Party,"<br />and she began accompanying women to a Florentine abortion clinic.<br />The Saturday Profile By<br />ELISABETTA POVOLEDO<br />FEB. 9, 2018<br />ROME — Emma Bonino had wrapped up the keynote speech at a rally in a Rome convention center to begin her campaign for Parliament in Italy’s national elections on March 4,<br />and the cheery, generic background music had just come on.
