“Italy will respect the rules” European, also said before the deputies the far -right leader, who defended himself from all sympathy towards fascism.
Le Monde with AFP
In a discourse to deputies, the new head of the Italian government, Giorgia Meloni, strengthened with force the belonging of Italy to the European Union (EU), Tuesday, October 25. Italy is “fully part of Europe and the Western world,” said the leader of the post -FASCEPTICS FRATOLLI of Italia.
The far -right leader tried to appease the concern aroused by the historic victory of her party in September. She assured that the Italian approach was not to “brake and sabotage European integration”, but to better operate the community machine, in her general policy speech before the Chamber of Deputies, who must vote in the evening Confidence in his government.
“Italy will respect the rules” European, also assured M me meloni, even if Rome also wants to “help change those that do not work”. The EU is “a common house to face the challenges that member states can hardly face alone,” she said, judging that the EU had not done enough in this area in the past.
“A reliable NATO partner”
Giorgia Meloni, who counts in his coalition Prorussies partners, notably the league chief, Matteo Salvini, and the leader of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, also promised that Italy would remain “a reliable partner of the NATO [Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty] in support of Ukraine which opposes the aggression of Russia “.
“Giving in the blackmail of Putin on energy would not solve the problem, this would worsen him paving the way for new claims and singing and future increases [of the price] of energy even greater than those that We have known in recent months, “said the new Italian leader.
M me meloni also wanted to be reassuring on the line of his party, denying any “sympathy” or “proximity to the anti-democratic regimes”. “For no diet, fascism included,” she insisted.
Regarding the subject of immigration, the new Prime Minister assured Tuesday that his government intended “to arrest the illegal departures” from Africa to the peninsula and “break the traffic of human beings” in the Mediterranean.
First woman at the head of the country
The speech of M me meloni, the first woman head of government in Italian history who took office on Sunday, will be followed by a vote of confidence on Tuesday evening in the Chamber of Deputies and Wednesday in the Senate.
The successor of Mario Draghi, to which she also paid tribute to her speech, is guaranteed to win confidence, since her coalition has the absolute majority in the two chambers.
While inflation increased by 8.9 % over a year in September, it is committed to “priority” to “strengthen support measures for households and businesses, both for energy bills and for fuel “. “A financial commitment that will drain a large part of the available resources,” she recognized.