Corriere tv the confrontation between the leader of the Brothers of Italy,
Giorgia Meloni
, and the dem secretary,
Enrico Letta
.
"The
sanctions
against Russia" work "so it is necessary to continue with them, even if they have" a cost for Italian companies and families "who therefore" must be helped and protected "especially on energy costs, Letta said.
"The position of FdI is always the same: Italy anchored to the West, to the Atlantic alliance, with Europe, in defense of Western values. Since the beginning, no hesitation in taking sides against Russia, we have supported the government albeit from the opposition. And things would remain so with a center-right government ", explained Meloni.
"The sanctions are effective, but honors and burdens. We need a compensation fund. We have a coalition program. Instead, the Italian left is asking not to send weapons".
"The words of Berlusconi and Salvini on sanctions? But in the program of the center-right there are clear words and those count. Letta tell us why you did not raise the issue with your allies about stopping the sending of weapons. In our program there is no 'is nothing against sanctions ".
"For years those who made constructive criticisms were called sovereignists: then shocks like the pandemic arrived and we saw that we were asking for a Europe capable of acting: it cannot be said that it did all the things that needed to be done. There is no foreign policy. - added Meloni -. The position of the conservatives is that of the principle of subsidiarity: Brussels does not do what Rome can do. The national interest defends itself by acting: Germany does not want the price cap because it pays a third of what it pays for gas. we pay".
"It is not difficult for us to choose international alliances, they have always been based on two cornerstones, European and Atlantic and it will always be like this", said Letta in a confrontation with the Fdi leader.
"We want an Italy that counts in Europe, not one that protests. Like Draghi, who went to Kiev with Macron and Scholz: that's photography. An Italy that counts, not one that vetoes Poland and Hungary, also because we we have the Euro ", added the secretary of the Democratic Party.
"The position of Fdi on the
PNRR
has always been the same - said Giorgia Meloni -. We never voted against, we abstained in a passage in Europe, and in Italy because the document arrived at the last moment, we have asked to read it ".
According to Enrcio Letta, the PNRR "should not be renegotiated" because if asked "we will give those who lend us that money a message that Italy is unreliable".
Letta added that "within the PNRR there are already mechanisms to reshape it on the needs due to the energy crisis".
"There are no amnesties in our program - said Giorgia Meloni -, if anything, it is necessary to make those that have been done in the past work: the real evasion is in illegal work, in big companies, in the initiatives of migrants who open and close before checks , for which we asked for a surety ".
"Minimum wage, according to the negotiated logic, to prevent more than 3 million workers from earning less than 9 euros, which is a scandal": so Enrico Letta during the confrontation with Giorgia Meloni on Corriere.it.
He must also maintain the citizenship income because "it has helped to combat poverty".
"In our opinion it will have to continue for this but on active policies it has to change because it did not work".