The meeting between the government and the majority on the resolution on communications by Prime Minister Mario Draghi in view of the next EU Council
, scheduled at Palazzo Madama for the afternoon today,
kicks off in one of the buildings that house the Senate offices .
At the meeting for the government there are the minister for relations with the Parliament Federico D'Incà and the undersecretary Enzo Amendola.
Involve the Parliament.
More than ever before.
In the essential passages, such as those on new arms shipments, which in any case would not be explicitly mentioned.
An entire afternoon meeting is not enough to find the synthesis with the M5S requests and prevent the majority from splitting up on Italy's support for Ukraine, on which Mario Draghi will return to ask the Chambers for maximum unity in the afternoon, before flying to Brussels for the European Council.
The premier returns to the Senate (and tomorrow to the Chamber) after a delicate week for Italian diplomatic action, which led him to seek new alliances to achieve independence from Russian gas in Israel, and then in Kiev together with Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz just as Moscow was reducing supplies to Europe.
The entry of Ukraine into the European Union, the need for a common economic response to the energy crisis amplified by the war, and the imposition of a ceiling on the price of gas, also to try to curb the inflation race, will be the heart of the communications from Draghi.
All issues on which the majority are united around the premier.
To divide the parties among themselves, but also with the government, are instead "forms and ways"
with which to make senators and deputies participate in the choices of the executive.
Enzo Amendola and Federico D'Incà sit around the table with the group leaders of the EU Foreign and Political Committees of the two branches of Parliament in the early afternoon.
And in the evening the square is still not found.
Accepted the idea of pushing on military de-escalation and diplomatic initiative, the minimum for the 5S who had started with the request for a vote on the sending of weapons, the negotiations are stalled on how to involve Parliament.
The Movement, shaken by the internal feud precisely with the Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, at the end of a nocturnal National Council, in mid-afternoon produces its document which reaffirms the need for "
Also because the bridges from Palazzo Chigi for days have filtered maximum availability for mediation with the insurmountable limit, however, of the firm positioning in line with the EU partners and the Atlantic alliance, even on armaments.
No, essentially the message sent to the political forces, to the government commissioner on crucial foreign policy choices, while the war is underway.
To get out of the impasse, the government proposes to refer to the first Ukrainian decree, which provided for an "address" by the Chambers - which arrived by a very large majority - to be followed by ministerial decrees for military supplies to the Ukrainian army.
And the commitment of the defense and foreign ministers to report at least every three months on the evolution of the situation.
The proposed wording is "
Around this formulation the debate runs aground - in the always calm tones, more than one participant reports.
The dem Alfieri and De Luca attempt mediations which are rejected.
Around this formulation the debate runs aground - in the always calm tones, more than one participant reports.
The dem Alfieri and De Luca attempt mediations which are rejected.
