Top jobs and centuries-old olive trees. The last frame of a G7 in the farmhouse which Giorgia Meloni frames as a “great success” is the press conference with which the prime minister steers the deck towards Brussels and issues a warning to sailors and sailors. «Italy must be recognized for the role it deserves» he says from the podium made from an olive tree uprooted for xylella, because it is time that «Europe understands the message that has arrived from European citizens»: we need more «pragmatism» and less ideology. Or wishing to further translate the crypticism of Meloni’s negotiations (who will be in Brussels tomorrow evening to discuss the composition of the new Commission together with the Twenty-Seven): Italy and the right won the elections, both deserve an adequate role. Before or after the French vote? “It’s not a preliminary ruling.” It is, however, the fact “that politics must above all respond to the indication that comes from citizens” says Meloni, ready to sit with a belligerent spirit at the table where Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz will present themselves arm in arm and with the gift of some probable ambush . Moreover, with the “artificial” controversy on abortion on which the Prime Minister cuts short with a stumble on “rights and singing company…”, the Frenchman has already tried to score some points during the summit in Puglia. Meloni, however, is satisfied for not having fallen for the provocation, summarizing to those who ask that both on women’s rights and on LGBTQIA+ rights “there have been no steps backwards” and there will not be any, given that – she reiterates – law 194 “does not will be modified.” If anything, just a moment before “Joe, Emmanuel, Rishi, Olaf, Justin, Fumio, Ursula and Charles” paraded in Borgo Egnazia, it was the parliamentarians of her majority. “I foresee that provocations will increase” he says, referring to the attack in Parliament on Wednesday, against the Five Star MP Donno during the discussion of the bill on autonomy, and unleashing the anger of the opposition parties. The request is therefore that to be up to par. As Italy did, demonstrating that it can “organise events of this extraordinary importance”.
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THE THEMES
The satisfaction, however, does not only concern the “global village” into which the Apulian resort has been transformed, but above all for a final declaration which seems to achieve all the objectives that had been set on the eve. The first is support for Ukraine, forcefully reiterated by the G7 through a “historic” agreement on the 50 billion dollar American loan guaranteed by the profits of Russian assets. Volodymyr Zelensky – today grand master of the Lucerne peace conference – can rejoice. Also because, as all Western leaders have done before her, Meloni also returns the peace proposal from Vladimir Putin to the sender. “It seems to me more like a propaganda initiative than a real negotiation proposal,” she says, “if he wants peace, Putin must withdraw his troops from Ukraine.”
Among the themes of the three days, in the press conference the prime minister carves out a space to emphatically celebrate not only the interest of the summit for Africa or the commitment on migrants undertaken by the Seven, but above all the presence of the pontiff, capable of indicate the way forward on artificial intelligence, so that “this technology remains controlled by humans”. On this, “the Holy Father has given an extraordinary moral and practical contribution”, helping the summit to launch the initiative of a brand that allows companies that adopt a code of conduct to be recognizable and to make the one just concluded an appointment “intended to be remembered.” Even in the very short term. For example, “in the next few weeks”, the prime minister will fly to Beijing to meet Xi Jinping. In fact, a “clear message” was sent to China from Borgo Egnazia: “We are open to dialogue, but our companies must be able to compete on equal terms. The market can be free, but only if it is fair, therefore free market, but within a framework of fair competition.”
THE BILATERALS
Even before addressing journalists, the prime minister concluded her G7 meeting by dedicating herself to bilateral meetings in rapid succession. Not only the handover with Justin Trudeau (Canada will lead the Seven next year), but also the rotating president of the G20, the Brazilian Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Meloni also signed a bilateral agreement between Italy and the African Development Bank Group to try to fill the Mattei Plan with meaning (and resources), and with the president of Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune. On all the tables are energy issues, the fight against climate change, water management and forest protection.
Big themes, but not only that. In fact, in recent days, among the rows of the Apulian countryside, the leaders have also had the opportunity to get to know the local culture better. “I was proud to see them with their mouths open, but sometimes even less so, for the flavors and taste”, says the prime minister. Panzerotti, illuminations, taranta, bracelets with olive stones and the voice of tenor Andrea Bocelli. «Here, we are always capable of reinventing ourselves», explained Meloni, but with our feet always firmly planted in the land where we come from. «With the world’s greats we talk about global challenges, but we must remember that we are not able to face these challenges without our identity».
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