In Europe Giorgia Meloni is not willing to have a majority with the left. The prime minister, guest of In half an hour, looks to the next elections and does not rule out an alliance with the far right, including the AfD: “I don’t give certificates of presentability, perhaps because these things have been given to me for a lifetime the citizens decide them. My goal is a centre-right majority”, is to “send the left into opposition in Europe too”. “I’m certainly not willing to make alliances with the left, everything else is clear”.
“Challenging tone with Europe? There is no change of tone, I have always said and thought the same things. I think this Commission made a lot of mistakes, but thanks to our positions Europe has changed its approach, on cars and houses, we were the first to say that they were not good”, says Meloni, “”On the migrants it was us to say that the debate shouldn’t have been about redistribution”, he recalls. “With Ursula von del Leyen I have a relationship of institutional collaboration as with everyone”, he underlines. “She sometimes seemed more pragmatic than her commission”.
The prime minister also comments on the words of the NATO secretary general on the possibility of authorizing Ukraine to use the weapons supplied by the Alliance on Russian territory. “I don’t know why Stoltenberg says something like that, I think you have to be very careful. However, NATO must maintain its firmness in supporting Ukraine.” “There have been many statements in recent months that have seemed questionable to me,” she continued, quoting the phrases of Emmanuel Macron. “I advise greater caution,” she added.
“The alarming story in which Europe appears on the brink of a very large-scale conflict seems counterproductive. Fueled by those who want to scrape together some votes in the electoral campaign”, continues the prime minister, “It seems that those who support Ukraine want war and those who want peace do not support it: I think it is the opposite. Putin invaded Ukraine declaring he wanted to bring Russia back to its historical borders, it is an imperialist war. If we had allowed that imperialist war, it would have come much closer to home, because Putin would not have stopped at Ukraine. Deterrence is the only way to have peace. If we talk about diplomatic channels, it is because we have created a balance of forces in the field.”
Speaking of the conflict in the Middle East, Meloni sees with concern a “latent anti-Semitism that is coming out”: “Israel risks slipping into the trap that the fundamentalists have set up: forcing them into a very strong retaliation to isolate it. Israel must respect international law.” We must “work for a sustainable ceasefire. Averting an Israeli entry into Rafah. And strengthening the PNA is a fundamental step”.
