https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65324319 -> https://archive.md/yOUeV >A close government ally of Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has attracted claims of white supremacy for saying Italians are at risk of "ethnic replacement". >Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida said: "Italians are having fewer children, so we're replacing them with someone else." >"That's not the way forward," he added. >Mr Lollobrigida is from the same far-right party as Ms Meloni and he is also her brother-in law. >"We have to incentivise births. We have to build welfare to allow everyone to work and have a family," he said in a speech to a trade union conference.