A new clash with Paris over the management of migrants. Quoted by Le Figaro in an article on the crisis between the two capitals, the head of President Macron's party, Stéphane Séjourné, attacks the Italian prime minister accusing her of demagogy with an "unjust, inhuman and ineffective" policy. And he argues that "the extreme right French takes the Italian extreme right as its model. Giorgia Meloni's reply was immediate. ' It is not ideal to use us for internal accounts - says the Italian premier from Prague where she is for a bilateral - but everyone makes the choices they want to make".
"I believe that the policy of other governments is used to settle internal accounts. It does not seem to me an ideal thing in terms of
politics and etiquette, but everyone makes the choices they want to make". This was stated by the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in Prague, commenting on the criticism of the Italian government coming from France by the head of Emmanuel Macron Renaissance's party, Stéphane Séjourné
"I imagine that I will see Macron in the coming days", between the G7 and the Council of Europe "the opportunities will be many. I do not know - the prime minister also said - that there are bilateral problems between Italy and France". According to Giorgia Meloni, "these statements so aggressive in favor of camera seem to me to speak to public opinion French, I am not worried by these criticisms".
Meloni: 'There is no bilateral problem with France'
The attack from France
"The extreme right French takes the Italian extreme right as a model. Their incompetence and powerlessness must be denounced. Meloni makes so much demagogy about illegal immigration: his policy is unjust, inhumane and ineffective". Thus the head of Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance party, Stéphane Séjourné, quoted by Le Figaro in an article on the crisis between Italy and France entitled "Despite their differences, Meloni agitated like an anti-Le Pen bogeyman by the government". "Message that the MEP plans to repeat on May 25 in Rome, where he organizes a seminar of the Renew group in support of the Democratic Party," it reads. And a lunge also came from Spain. With Yolanda Díaz, deputy prime minister and minister of labor in the socialist government of Sánchez, who claims that with the latest Labor decree, the Meloni executive has shown that it wants to "govern against workers", to "return" to the model of "junk contracts".
"Evidently there is some problem that they have to solve. But I don't think it's a problem they have with us. Evidently there is some problem of consensus that needs to be addressed, but it is an internal problem. I don't want to slip in, I understand the difficulties." This was stated by the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in Prague, when asked about the repeated attacks by the French government. Asked if she had sent a message to President French Emmanuel Macron, the prime minister replied: "No, no, I am interested in what Italians say about the work I do." "What's going on with Paris? I have no news - added Meloni - so I must assume that they are discussions related to domestic politics. It is the only sensible explanation for what is happening. I do not think it is very profitable to use international relations to solve one's own internal political problems, then everyone makes the choices they want to make. I have no news, I continue to do my job serenely". The prime minister then referred to the lunge arrived from Madrid: "Italy has just marked the historical record of number of employees and stable contracts - she said -, perhaps we do not know well the work that the Italian government is doing".
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini had rejected the attack French. "Unacceptable and offensive tones - he writes on twitter -. France cannot give lessons to anyone. Bring respect to the Italian government." And on Twitter the other Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani replied in Madrid by writing that "I regret that Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz interferes in Italian political life by giving unacceptable judgments on the government's choices. His party's electoral difficulties do not justify insulting a European partner and ally. This is not the way to collaborate." And on the attack from Paris, the Minister for European Affairs Raffaele Fitto noted that "nervousness over growing domestic political concerns has today registered another victim, the President of the Renew Group in the European Parliament, Stéphane Séjourné". "Lacking valid political arguments and frightened by the judgment of his fellow citizens, Séjourné has seen fit to play the card of an unprovoked and unjustified attack on President Meloni who not only contradicts every rule of institutional bon ton by not helping the correct dialogue between governments, but, I am sure, will not help him to solve the many political problems he has".
Meloni: 'Controversy Spain? They don't know our work'
Criticism of the Italian prime minister also from Spain at work
With the latest decree on labor, Yolanda Díaz, deputy prime minister and minister of labor in the socialist government of Pedro Sánchez, told the Spanish Congress of Deputies, the Italian executive of Giorgia Meloni has shown that it wants to "govern against workers", to "return" to the model of "junk contracts". Díaz accused the ultraconservatives of Vox of wanting to do the same in the Iberian country in the future.
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Deputy Prime Minister Spain, 'Meloni encourages junk contracts' - World
'In Italy the government goes against workers as Vox wants to do' (ANSA)
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Italy-France clash over migrants. Tajani: 'Paris understood Darmanin's gravity' - Politics
The spokesman of the French government, Olivier Véran, tries to appease the quarrel between Italy and France on the issue of migrants following the accusations against Prime Minister Meloni by Minister Darmanin: "He did not want to ostracize Italy". The Italian Foreign Minister: 'Words that go in the right direction. France's statement is not enough, it was lukewarm, the offenses instead very strong." Beaune agrees 'on the political level' with Darmanin (ANSA)
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Deputy Prime Minister Spain, 'Meloni encourages junk contracts' - World
'In Italy the government goes against workers as Vox wants to do' (ANSA)