For Meloni the free ride is over

What does it mean to reassure? The first of the Prime Minister in Europe forces the right to take a step away from the bengodi of irresponsibility and pushes the sovereignists into a triple betrayal: ideas, friends, the past. Long live the inconsistency

To calm down is to betray. The first historic day of Giorgia Meloni in Brussels, as President of the Council, it can be summarized with a verb delivered yesterday at lunch by the Italian Prime Minister to the European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni: reassure. Meloni knows that every kind of game that Italy can try to play in Europe passes from that verb, to reassure, and to reassure the European partners, the path of the Italian prime minister, as we saw yesterday, can only pass from three formidable betrayals: betray one’s ideas, betray one’s friends, betray one’s past. Betraying one’s own ideas, for Giorgia Meloni, means continuing to support, when we talk about Europe, the opposite of what the supranational international has long argued.