“Europe has to walk together, it is too important a phase”, the Italian premier “Giorgia Meloni He is working very well for this goal “, Matteo Salvini “It is good to follow the line of foreign policy” which is carrying out her and Antonio Tajani“. As Manfred Weber speaking with the agi, on the eve of the summit of the coalition of the ‘willing’ (a group of thirty countries, not only Europeans). In Paris the French president Emmanuel Macron after welcoming the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky will bring together the other leaders and heads of government committed to confronting the strategy on Ukraine, on European defense, on the theme of duties and the relationship with the American president Donald Trump.
Giorgia Meloni took stock of the two vice -premier Salvini and Tajani, as well as with the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto. In addition to the need to keep the tones low – Appeal that relaunches for days, the Prime Minister discussed which position to keep at the summit in France. “There is no national participation in a possible military force on the ground”, the point from which you started. In the branched note at the end of the summit at Palazzo Chigi it was reiterated that Italy is engaged in the construction “together with the European and western partners and with the United States of solid and effective security guarantees for Ukraine who find foundation in the Euro-Atlantic context “.
With reference to the model “which in part can follow the provisions of article 5 of the Washington Treaty, a hypothesis that is increasingly found in the international partners” and the “role of United Nations that the Italian government has been supporting for some time. “In short, there is caution and prudence. And awareness that Macron’s project and British Prime Minister Starmer is difficult to achieve and not only for divisions within the EU, but also because the Russia It would not accept it and it is an unwanted road also to the United States. Not that the path of the extension of article 5 of the Atlantic Treaty – provides that an armed attack against a Member State is considered as an attack on all parties – is easily viable. As well as the possibility of acting in support of Kiev under the UN umbrella.
The best solution would be to focus on NATO or on a mission that has the largest possible participation, involving for example also the BRICS countries but it is also on the timing with which they move Paris and Berlin not to convince the executive. Italy has never thought of boycotting the summit, but preaches calm, waiting for a ceased the fire, of a resolution, of a real peace agreement. And to understand what the efforts for the peace that is carrying out Trump will bring to Trump and his attitude towards Europe both on the theme of duties and on that of the defense. “With diplomacy”, Meloni replied, during the visit to the village ‘Agriculture is” in Rome, to those who asked her how the Italian agri -food sector is protected from the threat of duties.
During the summit, the Premier then reiterated the need for compactness so that there are no distinction in the alliance, even if the resolution on the rearmament plane presented by the 5 Star Movement could be a mine for the coalition. “The summit went very well“, said Salvini.” The center -right is in good health, “the other vice premier Tajani has relaunched.” The position of the government is one and one, “Crosetto said, after reiterating that” our great Atlantic alliance today is the only defensive umbrella that can be used, NATO is the basis to build European integration “.