Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has been cast as the unlikely kingmaker ahead of June’s European elections, as she is courted by both Ursula von der Leyen on the centre-right and France’s Marine Le Pen on the far-right. On Sunday, Marine Le Pen told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera she was seeking Meloni’s backing to unite the European Parliament’s hard-right parties into a far-right supergroup. The parties are currently divided between Le Pen’s Identity and Democracy (ID) group and Meloni’s nationalist European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR). Euronews’ polling ahead of June’s E…