I Love Italy (Io amo l'Italia), originally Protagonists for Christian Europe (Protagonisti per l'Europa Cristiana), is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy.
The party was founded on 30 November 2008 by Egyptian-born journalist Magdi Allam. According to him, it is a secular party supporting the Judeo-Christian roots of Europe and that is why the party is open also to Muslims who acknowledge these roots, which are synthesized in the three slogans of the party: "Truth and Freedom", "Faith and Reason", "Values and Rules".[1] The party took part to the 2009 European Parliament election in list with the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC), representing the internal right-wing of the Union of the Centre (UdC), and Allam was elected MEP.
The party is socially conservative and, in its program, supports: human rights, a pro-life stance, freedom and in particular religious freedom, the centrality of the family, democracy, economic liberalism, solidarity, subsidiarity, meritocracy and stewardship.[2]