“Today Italy and the United States, on many issues, speak the same language and is a very positive elementespecially in the complex international framework we are facing. “Thus Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, intervening at Villa Taverna for the celebrations for July 4, the day of the independence of the United States of America.
The fact that Italy and the US speak the same language on many dossiers “It is a good thing for the strength, unity and compactness of the Westbecause the compactness of the West is an indispensable condition for dealing with all the great challenges of our time. Perhaps even more when our point of view should not be perfectly coinciding, because we are historical allies and our bonds are based on loyalty, mutual respect, on desire and awareness that the strength of one is also automatically the strength of the other “.
Meloni then thanked the president of the United States, Donald Trump, for having appointed Tilman J. Fertitta American ambassador in Italy: “He is a friend of Italy, not only because he has Italian origins like millions of Americans, but because I really believe that together we can do an important job for both nations. And I am happy and honored to be here tonight to celebrate with all of you the day of independence”. “But they are obviously also here to reiterate the strength, the solidity of the relations between Italy and the United States. These are sisters, united by a privileged relationship that feeds day after day and which must clearly much to more than 20 million Italian -American who for generations have contributed to the prosperity of the United States,” Meloni said. “With President Trump, when we met at the White House, but also in the other comparisons in recent months, we always started remembering this extraordinary, unique bond. We have not considered it a point of arrival, but a starting point to strengthen our relationships, to make that bond even stronger,” underlined the premier.
“I confess that I have always looked at with a pinch of admiration in the way the American people celebrate July 4, the anniversary of the adoption of the declaration of independence, that is, the birth of the United States. For the Americans, on July 4th it is much more than a simple national party – however important. It is something that every citizen of the United States carries in the heart every day, which recalls the very identity of the American nation, the values of equality, freedom and democracy. “But every 4th July the Americans mainly celebrate what keeps them united,” underlined the Prime Minister.
“As President Ronald Reagan said during his visit to Italy in 1982, paraphrasing verses of Cicero: ‘Friendship makes prosperity brighter and illuminates adversities by dividing and sharing them’. Our two peoples have shown, beyond any doubt, that Italy and the United States are and will be friends. Therefore, God Bless America, live Italy!”, Meloni concluded.
