If the European Union is a complex mechanism governed by a certain dialectic between the council of heads of government and the dynamics of the political forces in its parliament, it is difficult to deny that our country sees before itself the attractive prospect of being able to play a role prominent in the construction of the next legislature.
Giorgia Meloni is in fact at the same time at the head of a national government that emerges strengthened at the polls and at the top of a European parliamentary group that benefits, both directly and indirectly from that right-wing wind evoked several times in the past months. Her position is undoubtedly central. The leaders of the most important European governments, France, Germany, Spain, emerge battered from the electoral test, while you stabilize the change of pace that has taken place in our internal balance. Unlike other components of the right, Afd in Germany, but also Le Pen’s party in France, has always maintained an international positioning that has placed Italy in the right coalitions both in terms of the attitude towards Russian neo-imperialism , both with regards to the difficult game that has opened in the Middle East with the explosion of Hamas terrorism and the consequent angry Israeli reaction.
This is no small detail, because, as will be seen shortly with the G7 meeting in Puglia, this makes it a credible and interesting interlocutor in the seething geopolitics of these months and certainly of the next. Add to this that he can boast of a performance by his government that has denied all the gloomy predictions of his opponents: the economy is doing well, the social situation is not torn apart by uncontainable disputes, the political system certainly takes into account the inevitable changes when the majorities change policies, but nothing that can really make us think of the start of the feared and publicized “regime” (a term that has always been casually used, from the Christian Democrat one, to the Craxian, Berlusconian ones, and so on).
With electoral results under construction which will then need to be analyzed in depth both for what happened at home and for what occurred in other EU countries, predicting how the European confrontation will unfold now would be inappropriate. However, we can note that the general trend places many opportunities in the hands of our Prime Minister to confirm herself in a central role and probably also to become, if not “the” director, at least one of the main directors of the game that will be played in the construction of the new framework of the European Union. This will require strong nerves and resistance to the sirens of those who always see behind every win the opportunity to break the bank. So far Giorgia Meloni, apart from some inevitable tactics in hot electoral moments, has shown the coolness and patience necessary to manage that exceptional success which took her from being the leader of a small 4% party to the role of Prime Minister as a member of the relative majority party.
It must continue on this path, aware, as it certainly is, that there will be not only adversaries, but also allies who will not be available to help it in this undertaking. Obviously no serious analyst of political affairs imagines an idyllic situation in which for the winner of a difficult contest there are only honors and the unconditional surrender of all opponents, whether obvious or hidden. The fact is that today everyone should be invited, first and foremost in Italy, but not only, to consider that we are not playing a sports tournament between teams, but that we are facing a complex game for positioning in the face of the re-emergence of the imbalance of international framework. For this reason, it is not appropriate for Italy to waste a good opportunity to consolidate its position by getting trapped in the adventure of small clashes of flags. The physiognomy of the future structure of the EU is not a matter to be addressed with an eye to certain ritual-polemical disputes that we have been carrying around for too long. Our economic system not only needs to be able to fit appropriately into the context that is emerging from the transitions we have witnessed (and which are by no means over), but it must show, as it is doing, that it has what it takes to take advantage of the new opportunities that are opening up.
Let’s think, just to give an example, of what can be done with a decisive investment in a Mediterranean policy that relates courageously to the situation in Africa and on an industrial policy that loosens constraints that harm us in global competition rejected by voters. Finally, keep in mind that from tomorrow a lot will be set in motion. Very few will sit idle: Macron has dissolved the national assembly, accepting the challenge of Lepenist Bardella. It is to be hoped that here the results of the European polls will put an end to the concessions to entertainment politics. It would make no sense to continue with exasperated partisan controversies, when instead we are faced with the opportunity for Italy to have a role in the EU worthy of its tradition as a founding state.
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