Meloni: "No frost with Paris but Macron made a mistake"

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaks after yesterday's European summit which was also attended by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

UKRAINE

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that concerns the financial, military and civilian front and I reiterated this to Zelensky with whom I spoke", Meloni said.

"The EU believes it will remain alongside Kiev with all the necessary tools. Yesterday

, but it was important that the European Council as a whole did so beyond the states", highlighted the premier.

, we are seeing how to organize" the visit, added the Prime Minister.

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", Meloni also said, adding that he "appreciated" the choice of the Ukrainian president to send the letter later.

"I'm more sorry than anything that a controversy has arisen: it's never easy to bring politics into an event like Sanremo, even if it always gets there," he said.

"I think it was still important for him to be present."

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Meloni confirmed Italy's sending of the Samp-T system to Kiev with France

: "Absolutely yes, we have been engaged in a joint venture" with Paris "for some time on a very important matter for Ukraine. I think we are progressing expeditiously and in the next few days we will be able to announce it definitively".

With regard to

, "we are available to do our part at 360 degrees. I prefer not to say more. It depends on the balance of the international community, but we are there and always have been. Fears, heartfelt more from the opposition than from the majority, I absolutely do not agree with the fact that military aid leads to an escalation of the war".

There is only one possibility that in the end we will reach a negotiating table and that is the balance of forces on the field.

An invasion of the Ukraine brings war closer to our home, not further away.

,” Meloni stressed

Yesterday Europe gave itself "

and I think it is a very important signal, clearly within the EU Council and in the conclusions there is the confirmation of full support for the cause of sovereignty and freedom. We reiterated that the The EU will stand by Ukraine's side for as long as necessary".

"I am very happy with the results obtained by Italy in this European Council, I am satisfied with the very important steps forward made on some particularly delicate matters", said Meloni.

, she remarked.

State aid, Meloni: "We asked for flexibility on funds"

STATE AID

"The Italian proposal" for the European summit "was that of the possibility of flexibility on existing funds", explained Meloni.

"The other thing we asked is that the future discussion on the Stability Pact take into account the fact whether the

. We managed to include this element: the reform of the Pact takes into account of the decisions taken" on state aid.

"The Italian position on the economic matter was fully included in the conclusions of the summit", he added.

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, which goes in the direction of European strategic needs", continued Meloni.

"It is about giving a European solution to a European problem", he said, recalling that there is "an open discussion on the easing of state aid, in particular the request from nations that have fiscal space".

Asking for more flexibility does not mean "that we take cohesion funds and send them elsewhere, to other Regions. The point is to understand whether we can build a fiscal space that allows us to concentrate resources on priorities we have today, in particular competitiveness of businesses", Meloni explained later.

Still on state aid, "we asked for the easing to be circumscribed, temporary and limited and that there was also the ability to give a European response to a European problem. This solution, only in this way, risks being a national solution". Meloni said.

"As regards

we ask that account be taken of the investments that we will have to make in the coming years: up to now, the Stability and Growth Pact has been more unbalanced on stability than on growth, and we would instead like it to be more concentrated on growth, which is the best way to make the Italian debt sustainable: growth", underlined the premier.

Meloni during the press conference in Brussels

MIGRANTS

"I am very satisfied with the issue of migrants. Yesterday a principle was established, we changed our approach, which is very different from that of recent years. The approach put on paper starts from a sentence that had never been able to put : 'immigration is an EU problem and needs an EU response'".

"Before thinking about secondary movements, we must work together on primary movements, to combat human trafficking and curb illegal entries. We want the EU to get active in its work on Africa, which Italy is now doing: we imagine a strengthened cooperation with the countries of departure and transit of immigration to also fight illegal trafficking and allowing people to enter legally with well-regulated flows", said Meloni.

In the conclusions "there is the relationship with those engaged in rescue activities. This theme is in the conclusions and it is quite new, and that it should be discussed with a view to regulating the functioning of these activities", said the premier explaining which in the European document also specifies how "the issue of secondary movements cannot be dealt with without addressing that of primary movements".

"On the NGOs there was a working table called the Contact Group on Search & Rescue which had been set up and never operated. That group was taken up again and the conclusions speak of the relaunch of this body. This too is a very important fact," Meloni remarked at the press conference.

"It seems to me that there was progress on concreteness at the summit", she added.

"It is one thing to say that Europe will help Italy in the Mediterranean, it is one thing to have a plan from the Commission: the council establishes a framework, then what kind of concreteness makes the difference. Now we have asked for the plan on the central route" of the Mediterranean "must be implemented and put in order. I am convinced that we will see this cooperation, which for example means taking resources and using them towards the south and not towards the east:

,” Meloni said.

"Whoever has 3,000 euros to give to a smuggler can try to get to Europe, whoever is even poorer and doesn't have it, no. Is this human?" Meloni asked.

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, we have to do it: both for refugees and for legal migration. We can work better with African countries, including through our console yourself," he added

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With regard to the Scholz-Macron-Zelensky trilateral agreement, with France "there was no rift", but "in my opinion it was a mistake not to involve Italy, given that there is a Quirinal Treaty".

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THE RELATIONSHIP WITH MACRON

"I confess that I find some Italian readings a bit provincial. The theme is not 'frost', 'problems', the theme is that Italy is a nation central enough in the EU to have to say when something is not I agree with the past in which it was enough for us to be in a photo and this was enough to describe our centrality," Meloni said, answering a question about the question and answer with Macron on Zelensky's invitation to Paris.

," Meloni reiterated.

"It is not easy for any of us to manage the Ukraine issue with public opinion, what we do we do because it is right but perhaps it is not the best thing in terms of consensus.

. The theme was not being in photography and I didn't share" the choice, explained the Prime Minister.

"I believe that yesterday the strength of the image of unity of the 27 in Brussels should not have been weakened. In Paris" with Zelensy "there were two presidents, and not the other 25".

"Compared to those who thought that Italian foreign policy was just getting patted on the back and not considering Italian interests, I believe that Italy's interests are more important", he highlighted.

"Compared to those who thought that Italian foreign policy was just getting patted on the back and not considering Italian interests, I believe that Italy's interests are more important".

"Anyone who thinks of a Serie A and Serie B EU, who thinks that Europe should be a club in which there are those who matter more and who have less, are wrong. In my opinion, when they say that the EU has a first class and a third class, it is worth remembering the Titanic. If a ship sinks, it doesn't matter how much you paid for the ticket", continued Meloni.

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VISEGRAD

"It is said that Meloni chose Visegrad because he was not in the photo with the others. But it is normal that he saw the premiers of our party, such as Fiala and Morawiecki", said the prime minister.