Rome, 26 May. (askanews) – “I’m not used to giving certificates of presentability, perhaps because they were given to me for a lifetime. I think these things are decided by the citizens.” Interviewed by Monica Maggioni on ‘In half an hour’ on Raitre, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni refers the question of forming a majority for the new government of the European Parliament to the outcome of the vote on 8 and 9 June for the renewal of the European Parliament. European Union, responding, in particular, to the question whether a possible coalition between the groups of the European People’s Party and the European Conservatives (chaired by Meloni herself) should go as far as including the Eurosceptic nationalists of Identity and Democracy (of which the Lega).”Everyone knows – explained Meloni – that my main objective in Europe is to try to build an alternative majority to the one that has governed Europe in recent years. My objective is a centre-right majority and therefore to send the left in opposition also in Europe”, not only “because I think that the recipes of the left are wrong but I also think, as has been widely demonstrated in Italy, that rainbow majorities in the end only produce downward compromises and we do not we are in the historic period in which we can afford a weak Europe that makes downward compromises”.
“We – continued the Prime Minister – need a Europe that has a vision, that focuses on the important things, that knows how to tell us how to defend our citizens, how we defend our businesses, how we defend our borders , how do we play a role in the great crises that are unfolding in the world and unfortunately, if you put together a piece of the centre-right and a piece of the centre-left, you won’t be able to arrive at solutions”. “I want a Europe – said Meloni – who has a vision and who should be part of that majority, this will depend on the judgment of the citizens because we will have to look at the results” of the vote “to understand what majorities are possible. I am certainly not willing to create majorities with the certainly not on the left, everything else will be seen.” and that instead it was unable to deal with the things that were its responsibility, on which national states are not able to compete alone. We – as the Prime Minister exemplified – have not had a foreign policy, we have not had a defense policy, we have not had a serious energy supply policy, we have not had a raw materials supply policy, we have not had the capacity to stay on crisis scenarios. The approach of a Europe that must centralize everything is wrong, we need a Europe that takes care of the things that concern it, which are many fewer than those it has taken care of” so far. “It’s the confederal model”, the one supported by the Ecr-Fdi Conservatives, “which is the exact opposite of the federal one. It is a model – concluded Meloni – also carried forward by many of Europe’s founding fathers, which is a much more effective model of Europe”.
