Opposition up in arms over rejig of law tightening rape definition
Uniunea Europeana
Opposition parties expressed outrage on Thursday after the coalition supporting Premier Giorgia Meloni's government rejigged a bill seeking to tighten the definition of rape. The bill, the result of an agreement between Premier Giorgia Meloni's right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party and the opposition, centre-left Democratic Party (PD) led by Elly Schlein, aimed to make it clear that sex without explicit consent is a felony. It had said that sex without "free and current consent" at
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