The insistence with which our Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajaniasks the Populars to include the Meloni Conservatives in the majority it also rests on confidential contacts which in recent hours have included Rome, more than in recent days, in the negotiations. The Prime Minister’s phone call with Kyriakos MitsotakisGreek Prime Minister but above all one of the negotiators for the EPP at the negotiating table, it can in fact be considered an appetizer for other talks in the coming days.
If these are the data, together with Ursula von der Leyen’s need to receive parliamentary help from the ECR – support which does not necessarily have to translate into a real political agreement -, Italy appears closer to obtaining that operational vice-presidency of the Commission, with a multiple package of delegations, which she did not have in the last legislature and on which Meloni has already discussed with von der Leyen, obviously if everything goes as it seems, or if the second one gets an encore.
Uncertainty remains regarding the name and delegations, and it couldn’t be otherwise given that at the moment nothing is certain, except (perhaps) an encore from von der Leyen herself. The rumors circulating in the axis between Rome and Brussels continue to identify in Raffaele Fitto, current Minister of European Affairs, with the additional mandate to implement the Pnrr, is the government’s most likely candidate. And in the perimeter that extends from the Budget to the Cohesion Funds, to the European Pnrr and to the creation of a new delegation, which deals with new EU financing instruments, for future transitions in the military, artificial intelligence and digital sectors , the indiscretions fill the role to which the Italian government could aspire with content.
Today Meloni will see Orbán, who is involved in a capital movement not so much as Hungarian prime minister, but as rotating president of the EU for the semester. A meeting in which the agenda and priorities of the Hungarian presidency will be discussed, but which cannot fail to have an element of purely political discussion, also linked to the ongoing negotiations and the parliamentary destiny of Orbán’s group. The ECR, therefore Meloni’s party, closed the door on him, asking him to make a preventive declaration against Moscow. While it cannot be ruled out that Orbán will eventually try to form a third group of the European right.
Meloni will be in the Chamber Wednesday morningprecisely to illustrate our government’s position in view of the European Council, will then submit the same report to the Senate in the afternoon. On Thursday he will move to Brussels, trying to enforce the assessments he has already made with his European colleagues, that is, that the vote has shifted the political balance to the right and it is right that it be recognized.
