For Meloni there is a “turning point” with the EU. And he renews his friendship with Morawiecki-Corriere.it

Among the olive trees of Puglia, where she flew directly from Brussels for a few hours of relaxation and to work on the organization of the G7, Giorgia Meloni let leak her surprise for the critical judgments on the outcome of a European mission from which she returned very satisfied. The accusation of Italy’s isolation launched by dem leader Elly Schlein and some reconstructions on the failure of Italian mediation with the presidents of Poland and Hungary on the migrant front annoyed her and she was even more convinced that she had brought home a very concrete success on different strategic dossiers. In addition to having strengthened, in the two days of the summit, the political centrality of our country in the Union.

For the tenants of Palazzo Chigi, the Prime Minister returned from Brussels with a full trolley, Almost all. if there disappointmentregard only two of the 45 points of the conclusions of the EU Council. On the other 43 points, Meloni claimed, all nations voted positively. True, Poland and Hungary have distanced themselves, but only on the question of internal immigration. The prime minister never tires of explaining that the conclusions on that issue have been blocked and certainly not the migration pact approved in Luxembourg, which did not come out dented from the two-day meeting in Brussels. Therefore, according to the founder of Fratelli d’Italia, there is no no paralysis of Europe on the migration issue. Indeed, we would be facing a real turning point.

If the right-wing leader says she is very satisfied because in her opinion the raising her voice in these first months of government on the defense of Europe’s borders, the so-called external dimension, has brought results. Convincing the president Ursula von der Leyen and Dutch Mark Rutte to fly to Tunisia and having obtained, in the conclusions of the summit, explicit references to that mission desired by Meloni, would have allowed Italy to carve out a leading role for itself. The Tunisia model has obtained the consensus of all countries, including Poland and Hungary, and will be replicated for other partnerships. A result that, for Meloni and his ministers, was simply unimaginable four months ago.

As for the mediation attempted in Brussels to convince Morawiecki and Orbn, Giorgia Meloni has obtained what a minister defines as a small embarrassment, yet she does not intend to give up. He will be in Warsaw on Wednesday and, strengthened by the loyal friendship that the Polish premier has renewed, he will return to the sore spot. For her, the sovereign axis has not torn apart, nor has the strategy to bring the conservatives of the ECR, led by her, to ally with the European People’s Party (EPP) in the 2024 elections to shift the axis of Union government. Italy is central today, because we no longer pursue the choices of the Commission – the thesis of Minister Fitto, who insists on the “protection of Italian interests” -. On key issues such as the review of the multiannual financial framework, we presented our own document which has already been partially accepted by the Commission.

To fill the glass almost to the brim is having obtained the much desired flexibility on accounts, which is worth something like 300 billion between Pnrr and cohesion funds. The opposition is hitting hard on the delays of the 220 billion plan, but Meloni even says he is optimistic. And the same spirit is shown by Fitto, who considers the outcome of the EU Council to be very positive and denies tensions in the negotiations with the Commission. And the hitches on the third installment? We are working constructively, reassures the head of European affairs. There is much discussion in these hours of the creation of 7500 student beds, on which Italy would be in default. The government has denied having received an offer from Brussels to waive a part of the installment to achieve the goal and the university minister, Anna Maria Berniniensures that the times have been respected on the residences.

To the European Commission, which is waiting for the Italian project to revise the Pnrr, Fitto responds by promising an operation of truth on the proposed modifications and on the programming of the 2021-2027 cohesion funds.

The minister assures that the government is ready to underline the necessary corrections and that in the next few days, with realism, courage and responsibility, it will announce clear objectives and a path that will aim at solution of age-old problems on which the trend needs to be reversed.

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