The president of the extreme right council praised a “very frank and very positive exchange” with the leaders of the European institutions. In the peninsula, a relevant and secure decree adopted on Monday worries.
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While in Rome, her coalition government highlights the controversial markers of a hard right, the president of the Italian council, Giorgia Meloni, took, Thursday, November 3 in Brussels, her first steps abroad in an atmosphere of appeasement. “I am happy with the climate I found,” said the manager around 8 p.m., after having chained the appointments with Roberta Metsola, Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel, the leaders of the three institutions of the European capital – Parliament, Commission and Council.
“From a personal, human point of view, he created a very frank and very positive exchange,” she added. An observation clearly shared by its counterparts. “It was a good opportunity to discuss crucial subjects,” said, in a tweet, M me von der Leyen, mentioning in particular Ukraine, energy and the question of Migrants. “Reunion has confirmed that Italy will continue to play a central role in the EU decision-making process,” said the entourage of M me Metsola. “She especially reiterated her intention to be a loyal partner and oriented towards solutions within the EU,” adds a senior European official.
“Speaking directly with people can help dismantle a story that has been built about me and on the Italian government, continued M me meloni. We are not Martians, we are people on the flesh that explain their positions. “This last declaration illustrates the intentions of the new chef of the Transalpine government. “By going to Brussels for the first trip abroad, we want to wear a strong political signal to show that Rome is not placed in a conflictual perspective towards the European Union”, it was said in the ‘Italian executive before the visit, the main issue being, for M me meloni, to “get to know” with the leaders of the Union and to be good will, while its image D ‘Eurosceptique precedes it.
First friction with Berlin
If, in his first political life, M meloni had distinguished himself by radical anti -agentopian commitments, his position has evolved over his ascent towards power. The importance of the European Recovery Plan Nextgeneration EU, of which Italy is the first beneficiary, up to 200 billion euros, and which can only be renegotiated on the margin, makes any confrontation of scale with Brussels improbable with Brussels . Finally, the Euroatlantic posture advocated by the party of M meloni since the start of the Ukraine war has been accompanied by a less conflictual approach to the Union. The position of M me meloni now consists in defending a “Europe of the homelands”, recognizing at the supranational level its relevance, in particular on the energy question.
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