Roberta Metsola — Malta and the Catholic Conservative Pipeline
Roberta Metsola has been President of the European Parliament since 18 January 2022, when she was elected in the first ballot to succeed David Sassoli following his death. She is the third woman to hold the role — after Simone Veil (1979) and Nicole Fontaine (1999) — and the first Maltese national in the office.
The episode covers her formation in Malta, her European People's Party (EPP) trajectory, and the institutional and national networks that supported her rise from MEP to Vice-President to President of the Parliament in approximately a decade.
