Germany opposes the price cap. And La Meloni sees ghosts on her way to Palazzo Chigi

Scholz’s choice to allocate 200 billion for the expensive bills shatters the European plan. The anger of Draghi and Cingolani. The leaders of FdI try to copy the tones of the premier, but they know that Berlin’s move is terrible for its future in government: it means that those who have budget space are saved, and the others get by. Meanwhile Salvini dusts off the sovereign tones and insists on the deviation

The first reaction is to throw it into politics. “We should ask for a comment to Letta, who was at Scholz’s during the election campaign, and to those who say that we are all pro-Europeans”, they say on Via della Scrofa. And yet the truth is that the choice of the Germans to “go it alone”, sabotaging the agreement on the price cap that was painstakingly being built in Europe, worries Giorgia Meloni and her advisers. Because those 200 billion that Berlin puts on the table, just on the eve of the European Council of Energy Ministers called to define the agreement on the gas crisis, is there to inaugurate, according to the fears of Roberto Cingolania season in which “Whoever has fiscal space is saved, and whoever does not have it gets by”. And certainly Meloni, imagining himself in the government shortly, knows that his “nation” is certainly not in the first group.