Macron-Scholz-Zelensky summit without Meloni. The opposition: “Italy more isolated and outside the Europe that matters”

“Italy is increasingly isolated”, “because of this government we are outside the Europe that matters”, “the premier changes pace”. The oppositions attack after the exclusion of Giorgia Meloni at dinner between Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz And Volodymyr Zelensky. The prime minister was not invited. An “inopportune” choice – as Meloni defined it – that of the French president, Emmanuel Macronto invite the Ukrainian president to Paris before the European summit in Brussels, scheduled for these days.

“Zelensky first in London, then in Paris with Macron and Scholz: Meloni ignored. Stefano Bonaccini, candidate for the secretariat of the Democratic Party – Support for Ukraine and the search for peace pass through diplomatic activity from which Italy is excluded. But if you denigrate Europe for years, then you reap what you have sown, condemning us to international irrelevance. The government is changing pace, bringing our country back to the leading role it deserves”. Even the president of the senators of the Democratic Party Simon Malpezzi comments: “Meloni will not be offended if we record the obvious: Italy is increasingly isolated and on the margins in the international context because while European countries make politics, the members of the Italian government are busy making controversies about Sanremo”.

For Matthew Ricci, dem mayor of Pesaro, president of Ali (Italian local authorities) and coordinator of mayors of the Democratic Party) “thanks to this government we are already outside the Europe that counts. Isolated, marginal and not very authoritative. Meloni & Co. have once again chosen to team up with sovereignists and nationalists. And here are the results: we risk losing all the good work of recent years”. “Meloni thinks back to all his selfies with Orban and the other enemies of the EU, instead of whining now against Macron and Scholz – writes dem deputy Alessandro Zan on Twitter – If Italy today is less of a protagonist than before, the responsibility is only his”.

Meloni is excluded from the Macron-Scholz-Zelensky dinner and immediately comes to mind the photo of the train which, last June 16, immortalized his predecessor, Mario Draghi, just with Macron and Scholz, traveling to Kiev. The senator of Italia viva speaks of that shot, Ivan Scalfarotto, which “portrayed a historic passage, portrayed the three most important countries of the EU together and was a sign of the Union’s great unity and compactness. While the French and German economy ministers are in Washington without us, the president Meloni defines President Macron’s choice to invite Zelensky to Paris before the European summit as ‘inopportune’ The truth is that if Mario Draghi was on that train, firmly seated at the table where major decisions are made at a global level, it was thanks to his personal credibility and its history in international institutions – continues Scalfarotto – With Giorgia Meloni at Palazzo Chigi, on the other hand, we risk international isolation and marginalization in European decision-making processes with great danger in particular for our economy. European level and beyond: the real political challenge of the government is this. That our executive is able to do it is far from certain “, co includes.

For the leader of the Third Pole, Charles Calenda“fostering a controversy with France on the day when Zelensky goes to Brussels and Europe proves united precisely because it welcomes him with great pomp is a very serious mistake by Giorgia Meloni. It is very serious to do it with the wrong motivations: that is, by stamping the French initiative, completely normal, as an initiative which breaks European unity, while in reality what breaks European unity is a controversy at the wrong time and with the wrong tone”.

Criticisms also from the secretary of + Europa Benedict DellaVedova: “Meloni was wrong in saying that the meeting between Scholz, Macron and Zelensky was inopportune. So it seems that, as they say in Rome, Meloni has ‘gnawed’. It would have been better to make the best of a bad situation”, he comments to Coffee Break on La7.