ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “For years, political movements have grown in Europe that put in the foreground the defense of identity, the contrast to illegal mass immigration, the danger of Islamization of Europe. With regard to these movements, very often the reaction of the establishment was to try to create ‘healthy chords’, not instead of addressing questions in the merits. As you can see, it’s a strategy that doesn’t work.” Thus the President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni, in an interview with the Foglio, answering a question about the victory of AfD in Saxony-Anhalt. “It’s about listening to those instances and responding. This is what the centre is doing in Italy, with serious and non-demagogic solutions: in the matter of fight against illegal immigration, of defence of borders, of protection of the most fragile bands, of attention to the peripheries, of centrality of work. From us, the political context is radically different from what we see in Germany and other nations,” Meloni concludes.
On security “we invested as none before us”, but “I fully realize that Italians expect more, and it is right that it is so. I am the first to want more, because guaranteeing security is the main duty that the State has towards citizens. We are putting it all to do our part, but it is important that all the pieces of the state do the same, and that no one rhymes in the contrary direction. Particularly on the phenomena of urban crime”, he said
“The European Union’s working mechanism has proved inadequate to address the great challenges of our time. I am happy that now we all agree that it takes a step change, because when we said so we were being tacked with anti-Europeanism. But I do not think that the solution is to seek even more European integration or to overcome unanimity or federal Europe that exceeds national states, and therefore I do not agree with Mario Draghi.” “Together with the European Conservatives’ family, I have always felt that it served the exact opposite, i.e. a model of confederal Europe, in which Member States maintain ample sovereignty but interact more effectively on matters of strategic importance. It is a vision that is increasingly taking place, so that now several Member States call on the use of strengthened cooperation.”.
Finally, on the war in Ukraine: “The Russian attempt to conquer Kiev awakened Europe from a long torpor and illusion that it was sheltered from the great risks of the past. The war in Ukraine has shown that history is far from stopping and that the era in which the Old Continent could delegate its security to others is over. Despite many contradictions and theories, Europe has been able to react in a much more determined way than one could imagine, certainly more than Moscow expected. And it is true that the incredible Ukrainian resistance has made many Europeans rediscover the sense of identity and patriotism.” “Concepts that many considered exceeded, but certainly not those who belong to my political community, which has always placed the Homeland and national identity at the center of their action. As far as I’m concerned, I always think patriotism is a very serious matter. It’s not just a winding flag, or an anthem to sing. When you call yourself a patriot the first question you have to answer is: are you able to put the Homeland before yourself? This is the point,” he explains.
“For me in these years it would have been more beneficial to not support Ukraine, rather than to do so. Only that I did not support Ukraine for Kiev I supported Ukraine for Rome. Because, as I have said many times, Italy would have everything to lose in an international context in which the rules of peaceful coexistence between nations fail and the law of the strongest prevails. And, unfortunately, a taste of that scenario we are having in these years,” continues Meloni. Would it be willing to establish a rule for the future coalition: no alliance with the fake patriots voting against support for Ukraine? “Giorgia Meloni is certainly not willing to do the opposite of what he has done so far, or of what he believes in, by political or electoral calculation. I am a serious person, and I am not good for all seasons. Those looking for a premier who changes their minds based on the support of this party, always and only for personal return, must turn elsewhere.”.
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(ITALPRESS)
