Emmanuel Macron meets Giorgia Meloni and promises to work with “dialogue and ambition”

Published on: 23/10/2022 – 22:44 French President Emmanuel Macron, on an official visit to Italy, spoke on Sunday evening in Rome with Giorgia Meloni, the President of the Italian Council, reported the Élysée. At the end of an exchange of more than an hour, he expressed his desire to “succeed together, with dialogue and ambition”. French President Emmanuel Macron, on an official visit to Italy, spoke Sunday evening in Rome with Giorgia Meloni, the President of the Italian Council, reports the Elysée Palace, confirming information from BFMTV. The French Head of State began, Sunday, October 23, a two-day visit to Rome, where he notably spoke before the Sant’Egidio community on the war in Ukraine. He will be received Monday morning in private audience by Pope Francis. Emmanuel Macron has promised to work with Giorgia Meloni with “dialogue and ambition”, a few minutes after his first meeting with the new Italian Prime Minister. This is Giorgia Meloni’s first tete-a-tete with a foreign leader. “to succeed together, with dialogue and ambition”. “In Europeans, in neighboring countries, in friendly peoples, with Italy we must continue all the work started”, he writes, above a photo of the interview “To succeed together, with dialogue and ambition, we owe it to our youth and our peoples. Our first meeting in Rome, @GiorgiaMeloni, goes in this direction”, he adds. fixed as long as Mario Draghi ruled the Peninsula, risk going through a zone of turbulence with the eurosceptic and sovereigntist Meloni. But Emmanuel Macron assured on Friday that he was “completely ready to work with her”. Chigi, seat of government in Rome. A century after Benito Mussolini came to power, this ex-admirer of the Duce has thus taken the head of the most right-wing government in the country since the birth of the Republic in 1946. Debt and inflationSaturday, the EU, worried about the coming to power of the far right in Italy, the founding country of Europe, said it was ready to “cooperate” with the Meloni government. The 45-year-old Romaine, who won a historic victory in the legislative elections of September 25, managed to make his Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) party respectable to come to power at the head of a government of 24 ministers – only six of whom are women. with its coali partners tion – the populist anti-migrant leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, and the declining leader of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi – of the absolute majority in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Many challenges await him, mainly economic, to start with inflation and the debt whose ratio is the highest in the euro zone after Greece. The composition of the new government reflects the desire to reassure Rome’s partners. Former President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani was appointed to Foreign Affairs, with the title of Deputy Prime Minister, while Giancarlo Giorgetti, a representative of the moderate wing of the League, already a minister in the outgoing government of Mario Draghi, inherits the portfolio of the Economy.”You are not alone”The task of Giorgia Meloni promises to be the most difficult while her coalition is already showing cracks. On Sunday, she also called on her government to ” remain united” at the end of the first council of ministers, against a backdrop of tensions with Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo Salvini. The latter are reluctant to accept the authority of Giorgia Meloni, whose party won 26% of the vote in the elections, against 8 % for Forza Italia and 9% for the League. Herself an Atlanticist and in favor of supporting Ukraine against Russia, Giorgia Meloni had to face this week the controversial remarks of Silvio Berlusconi, who claimed to have “reconnected” with Russian President Vladimir Putin e and imputed to kyiv the responsibility for the war. Giorgia Meloni corrected the situation by affirming that Italy is “fully part and with its head held high” of Europe and NATO. A message well received in Washington, in kyiv and NATO, whose general secretary Jens Stoltenberg sent his “congratulations” to Giorgia Meloni. US President Joe Biden said on Saturday he was “looking forward” to working with her. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was “looking forward to continuing the fruitful cooperation” with Rome. “You are not alone!” replied Giorgia Meloni: “Italy will always be at the side of the courageous Ukrainian people who are fighting for their freedom and a legitimate peace”. With AFP and Reuters