Meloni in the Chamber and the Senate: communications on the international crisis, energy and the EU Council

Yesterday a video call was attended, among others, by the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (the last meeting was convened on the sidelines of the informal summit oncompetitivenessof last February 12th to Alden Biesen) to push Europe to accelerate on the issues ofcompetitiveness e su un plan against energy price increases(also aiming for the suspension of the ETS system to stabilize prices). Today, according to what we learn from majority parliamentary sources, there should be new contacts with EU leaders. A new call with Merz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron is possible, according to the E4 scheme, to take stock of the evolution of thecrisis in the Middle East. Among other things, the head of the English government spoke last night with the leaders of Germany and Italy, discussing above all the Strait of Hormuz but Rome would not have joined any operational proposal for the moment.

The work that Italy is carrying out at EU level will be, explain majority sources, the basis of the Prime Minister’s intervention which todayhe will talk about the international situationand in view of the next Council of the European Union first in the Senate and then in the Chamber (the call with the EU leaders could take place between the two interventions). Interventions which among other things, the same sources explain, will aim at the request that Europe be the protagonist in the attempt at ade-escalationwhateverstrongerand that he always manages to join in the scenariomost burned in the Middle East. Through awide-ranging coordination. And with an initiative to launch aextraordinary plan on the energy dossieras requested yesterday to the Eurogroup by the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti.

The Prime Minister’s communications and resolutions

Today the Prime Minister’s communications will be accompanied by the vote on the resolutions: that of the majority provides for asupport for the Gulf countriesattacked by Tehran, commits the executive to “adopt measures aimed atmitigate the economic impact of the crisiswith particular regard toenergy prices“, to continue to intensify thedefense investmentsto safeguard and protect theEU bordersand to guarantee in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine “everydiplomatic progress towards achieving peace in Ukrainein continuous coordination with the European Union, the United States, NATO and the G7 partners” maintaining the pressure on Moscow. The Prime Minister, explain majority sources,it will start precisely from the offensive implemented by Vladimir Putin sottolineando la need to restore international lawafter the attack by the United States and Israel on Iran. And it could relaunch an appeal toresponsibilitywith the belief that in this delicate phase we need the majority and the opposition to be united. But the climate always remains wall to wall, also due to thereferendum on the separation of careersnow upon us.

The energy package and international challenges

While the governmentis working on the energy packagewhich was not on the table of yesterday’s Council of Ministers (the prime minister was involved in the video call), but which could be examined in the meeting in the next few days. Among the hypotheses – but it could be the waymore difficult to travelaccording to what majority sources report – the intervention onmobile excise dutiesevaluated these days. Mef and Mimit work in coordination on the measures. “Meloni must do as Draghi does and intervene on excise duties”, explains a majority source. The game in any case yeshe will play mainly in Brusselsand not only that. “The countries’ commitment to solidarity was born by using storage to make up for the lack of availability at a global level“, explained, for example, the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin at the end of the G7 energy meeting. The executive is also studying aexport package to support businesses. The focus alsoIt’s about Defenseand on the military evolution of the situation in the Gulf countries. This morning a meeting was held with the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, the undersecretary of the Prime Minister’s Office Alfredo Mantovano and the military and intelligence leaders. Tomorrow the Prime Minister will finally refer to theactivity carried out to repatriate Italians stranded in the Middle East. But the oppositionshe is ready to press the Prime Ministerespecially for his statements (“I neither agree nor condemn”) linked to the attack by Israel and the USA and the appreciation expressed by American President Donald Trump to the prime minister who “always tries to help”.