Green light from the Senate Chamber to the Bill for the ratification of the Treaty on the entry into NATO of Sweden and Finland with 202 votes in favor, 13 against and 2 abstentions.
"What we are doing today - said Alessandro Alfieri, leader of the Democratic Party in the Foreign Affairs Committee at Palazzo Madama, speaking in the Hall - is a political act, not only diplomatic and symbolic. After the fall of Draghi in Moscow they toasted. But in us it remains strong. the image of European leaders on the train to Kiev: that image told us that the West, that Europe represent and defend democracy, which is why we do well to quickly get to the vote on the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO. It is a strong signal, and the vote of the Parliament which establishes which side of Italy is important is. The Democratic Party was the first party to take sides with Ukraine. The problem for Putin has always been that Kiev looked more towards Brussels than in Moscow.Russian aggression triggered in countries that had always been neutral the awareness that democracy lives better under Atlanticist and Western leadership ".