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In Berlin, Giorgia Meloni takes her resit exam

2023-02-03T19:54:29.395Z


STORY – The Italian Prime Minister, visiting Berlin for the first time on Friday, corrected her remarks made in 2019, when she said she was “allergic to Germany”.


Berlin

Giorgia Meloni is not “

allergic to Germany

” but to the German language.

The main mission of the Italian Prime Minister, visiting Berlin for the first time on Friday February 3, was to defend herself against the feeling attributed to her of Germanophobia, and the least we can say is that Olaf Scholz does not hardly helped her in this task.

Asked by a German journalist about the comments she made in January 2019 to the daily

Libero

, the Italian first lady tried, without really convincing, to correct herself four years apart.

"

I don't remember saying that, I just wanted to explain that German is the only language I didn't learn properly because it's incredibly complicated, grammatically speaking.

That's all

, ”replied Giorgia Meloni.

The question had been put to him incidentally among others first addressed to the Chancellor, but the latter, with a mischievous smile, hastened to leave…

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Source: lefigaro

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