He expresses "satisfaction" with the NATO summit, opens up to Von der Leyen's encore at the EU Commission and criticizes Matteo Salvini on Ukraine.

These are the main topics covered by Giorgia Meloni at the end of the NATO summit , marked by various bilaterals and sealed by the meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, with whom she discussed the conflict and the conference for the reconstruction of Ukraine that Italy will host in June 2025.

The blow to the League leader came when he responded on the opportunity to remove limits on the use of Western weapons in Kiev to attack Russia. « We in Ukraine have focused on air defense systems, which is the best way to defend an attacked nation. I also say this to those who on various sides say that if we continue to send weapons to Ukraine we will fuel the war (as Salvini also said, ed.). It also depends on what you send, because if we hadn't sent the anti-aircraft defense systems the missiles would have gone off anyway, hitting many more people, as we saw a few days ago in the Kiev hospital ." The Prime Minister then denied that Salvini is a political problem due to his position on the conflict, claiming in some way to have guaranteed the line: «The majority has always been very united on this matter, as demonstrated by an Italian line which is very clear throughout the world".

Meloni also opened up about Von der Layen, linking his vote to the result that Italy must obtain "due to its weight" and to what the president of the outgoing commission will say to Ecr, the European conservative group chaired by Meloni herself: "How President of the Italian Council , my only objective is to bring home the best possible result for Italy . As president of Ecr, Von der Leyen will meet our group and based on what she clearly says we will dialogue with the other delegations and decide what to do".

The prime minister also reduced the political distances with right-wing groups that in Europe have joined the Patriots of Orban and Le Pen, recalling that in the group «there is Salvini, as there is Vox which was with Ecr until a few days ago . The participation and composition of the European groups does not at all prevent there being excellent relations and forms of collaboration, as demonstrated by the Italian case where I am obliged to remember that the three parties that make up the majority, despite being practically together for 30 years, they have always been in different European groups ."

(Unioneonline/L)

© Riproduzione riservata