Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party has urged the European Commission to stop the Erasmus Programme's DragTivism Jr project "to avert European public funds being used to fund projects that risk exposing young people to gender ideology and LGBTQI+ activism," FdI MEPs said Tuesday. Rightwingers across Europe have slammed the project as allegedly involving minors participating in events with sexually explicit content. The FdI move was announced by MEP Paolo Inselvini, MEP and co-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party, Nicola Procaccini, and by FdI delegation chief Carlo Fidanza. Inselvini said the project was open to "minors from the ages of 14 to 17". The move was criticised by +Europa (More Europe) leader Riccardo Magi, who said it showed Meloni's party was "obsessed" with gender issues. "It's a full-blown obsession with FdI, which is now screaming like a broken record about gender theory and woke ideology," said Magi. Source: Ansa News Agency