Giorgia Meloni summarizes her programmatic manifesto in a long and articulated conversation with il Foglio during which she relaunches the need for a new pact with Europe also to change Italy.
And this within the framework of a series of initiatives, starting with the management of the migratory phenomenon for which a potential wave of 900,000 arrivals is expected, of people ready to disembark on the coasts of the countries bordering the Mediterranean.
A situation that makes it necessary - you explain - to guarantee legal entry and access to those who are entitled to the application of international treaties.
Italy must play an active role in this framework by pushing for a new EU migration policy and by relaunching, also with the support of the USA, an action for Africa.
Rome is putting its "Mattei plan" on the table in this regard, he recalls.
In the interview, the prime minister clearly reiterated her support for Ukraine (which she will never lack): this war "has a multidimensional impact, think of the food and raw materials crisis, which impacts on the fate of millions of people".
Here it is not an abstract freedom that is at stake but also our material and ideal boundaries, she adds among other things.
If the Mes turns into a vehicle for growth we are ready to discuss it.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni underlines this in the long conversation with il Foglio in the course of which she also refers to the need for a new Stability Pact that aims at growth, otherwise it will be a problem.
We need to invest - he remarks - in research and development.
In the interview, the premier attacks the attempts to "put behind" her Executive "the weight of wrong choices" previously on the subject of the Pnrr: an argument - she says - "that is short of breath".
You speak of the risks for the country of the "democratic glaciation" in progress and do not close to the use of nuclear power in the context of the energy transition ("no foreclosures").
It clarifies that Washington's protectionism must be met with new transatlantic trade partnerships.
A passage of the interview is dedicated to the issues of justice where the prime minister confirms the objective of legal certainty and the need to limit preventive detention to necessary cases.
Just as, as far as reforms are concerned, you reiterate the objective of arriving at a presidential system to guarantee government stability.