ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “The European Council will meet in a period of complex challenges, from the war in Ukraine that today lasts for the first world war, to the crisis in the Middle East, from the tensions that impact on the global economy, to the demands of strengthening of security and common defence, from the initiatives necessary to guarantee competitiveness to our production system, to the new international health emergencies, and the European Union is called to demonstrated organizational capacities”. This was said by the President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni, in the course of communications to the House, in view of the European Council.
“The multiannual financial framework will have to ensure the Union, adequate resources, both to respond to the challenges of our time and to support its political ambitions,” he added.
“Beyond four years after the start of the Russian aggression against Kiev, that aggression, despite the continuous proclamations, has never turned into a victory and this was possible thanks to the heroic resistance to the Ukrainian people, to the support that the nation accredited received from the European and Western allies, including Italy,” he said. “Our solidarity with Ukraine remains convinced, full and concrete” Meloni added, “We actively support the defence, the projects for reconstruction, our line does not change, so we support the twentieth package of European sanctions, because until Russia rejects a ceasefire and the start of real negotiations, it will be necessary to maintain political and economic pressure.”.
“We must contribute to building the conditions of peace, working together with our allies with solid security guarantees for Ukraine, a new European security architecture that can ensure long-term stability, a goal for which it is clearly indispensable to preserve unity, strengthen coordination between Europe and the United States, a challenge not always easy, but necessary.” “Only coordination does not mean to delegate, in any scenario of peace, serious between Ukraine and Russia, different conditions depend on Europe, concern Europe, impattano on Europe and is Europe to have to negotiate them,” added Meloni.
“The path of accession” of Ukraine to the EU “will have to continue in accordance with the principle of merit and equal treatment among all the candidate countries, including Moldova and the countries of the Western Balkans, both on Ukraine and on the Balkans, our positions are always the same, we represent them with clarity and courage in every place, regardless of participation or not to the single meeting, and indeed, from my point of view, if in Europe there were less formed than.
Moving the focus on the Middle East, Meloni said that “our line is the same from the beginning: Italy is not part of the conflict and does not intend to become it, our goal is that war ends as soon as possible, that we avoid further enlargement of the crisis and that we create conditions to bring back the confrontation within a political and diplomatic path.”.
“The crisis in the Middle East continues to arouse enormous concern, humanitarian, regional security and global economic stability, the consequences of this crisis directly affect international balances, freedom of navigation, energy markets and supply chains, from fertilizers to critical raw materials and, therefore, also on the European economy, including the Italian economy.”.
“We consider unacceptable any attempt to alter, unilaterally, the rules that guarantee in free transit through the Strait of Hormuz, because the freedom of navigation is a common world good, and cannot be be be bent to blackmail logic, and why allow someone to select who can and who cannot pass from a fundamental marine snout, would mean to open the way to a world in which the great marine routes become all instrument of pressure”.
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