«Italy can be said to be satisfied. Very good discussion with Macron»- Corriere.it

«Italy can be said to be very satisfied with the EU summit. Very good discussion with Macron ». These are some of the words of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed at the end of the meetings in Brussels for the European Council, underway since yesterday.

First point: France. «I had a very long, very broad meeting with President Macron, also on the scenario on the certainly complex situation on the geopolitical level that we all live in. It seems to me that there is a desire to collaborate on matters that are of strategic importance, certainly for Italy and for France and I am thinking of the migration issue on which I find President Macron’s great willingness to address the issue in a structural way”. the statement before the reporters. «It seems to me that there was a very favorable productive climate, and this can certainly be useful for tackling common challenges. I am satisfied with this bilateral agreement as with the other bilateral agreements I have had in recent hours with the Portuguese and Greek prime ministers”. And on French nuclear power: “I share the position of technological neutrality, so yes, I think that in addition to the technologies that can guarantee the objectives that the EU has set itself, other “technologies that meet certain targets must also be recognised, regardless whether or not nuclear power is used in a nation”.

Second point: the migrant emergency. On the subject there was “a change of pace marked in the last Council, but now migration remains a priority of the EU’s objectives” with a “verification of the implementation of the results in the next European Council. This demonstrates that it was not a question of an advert or a single initiative». For the Prime Minister: “We are working on concrete results that seem good to me and demonstrate good faith in tackling this matter” for which Italy can be said to be “satisfied”.

Third point: the Pnrr. “There is no risk on the third tranche of the Pnrr destined for Italy”, assured Meloni speaking to reporters, “our country is carrying out serious work. The president of the EU Commission von der Leyen appreciated the Italian work»

Fourth point: banking fibrillation. «It seems to me that both from President Lagarde’s report, and from President Donohoe’s report, and from the contributions of the leaders of the union there is an awareness of a system which in any case has solid fundamentals. Certainly we need to monitor and implement the banking and capital union, there is work that needs to be done on governance, not because in recent days we believe that the framework can be changed, but simply because the system needs elements that are missing for the its full force and impact capability. It doesn’t seem to me that there is particular concern for a system whose fundamentals are stable and solid».

Meloni, who was asked about the anniversary of the Fosse ardeatine massacre spoke of “innocent Italians massacred just because they were Italians”, raising questions about the non-use of the word “anti-fascists”, then addressed the question of nominations for the management and corporate bodies of public companies. «There are no tensions, we are also working on this very seriously despite the very amusing reconstructions that I read every day. We work by looking at the national interest and the merits of the people,” she said.