Meloni indicates priorities: “A little money will be used to cover the cut in bills”

The government’s priority Melons are the bills. The Prime Minister clearly says it a Bruno Vespa in the book ‘The great storm. Mussolini, the civil war. Putin, the energy blackmail. La Nazione by Giorgia Meloni ‘, to be released on November 4 by Mondadori Rai Libri, whose advances have been released in recent days. “The few that are there will be used to cover the cut in bills for those in difficulty,” the premier said bluntly. Explaining that the executive has a primary objective: “We have to see how to get through the winter without exploding bills, hoping to reassure us from March onwards”. In the meantime, at Palazzo Chigi we will work on useful measures, indeed necessary given the market trend, to put a stop to increases, such as decoupling. Even if the issue is linked, in two ways, to the work of the EU. “If Europe fails to cut the alignment of the cost of gas with that of electricity, which is a source of great speculation, we will do it”, assures Meloni.

Are there no crumbs for anything else ?, asks the journalist. “Few, but we want to give some signals, such as the 15 percent taxation on income increases and the passage from 65,000 to 100,000 euros in the turnover share of VAT numbers also taxed at 15 percent”. In the book ‘The great storm’ Vespa asks Giorgia Meloni why she should succeed where the previous seventeen governments have failed, in terms of growth in gross domestic product. “The only real advantage I have over the others” he replies “is that I will not work to stay in this place. I’m not here to survive by watching the polls. In five years I don’t want to be re-elected at any cost. If you have nothing to do with it. lose, you can pull the rope harder. To do things you have to break the mold; if you live in fear of not being re-elected, you are destined not to do anything “.

Meloni and his idea of ​​confederal Europe

In the same book, on the eve of his first trip to Brussels, Meloni also talks about Europe: “A European foreign policy does not exist: we went in no particular order to Libya and the same thing happened to the Ukrainian crisis. Then, instead, we see that Europe must deal with gender “. “My idea of ​​Europe is that of a confederal Europe in which the principle of subsidiarity applies. Brussels does not do what Rome can do better, Rome does not act where, alone, one is not competitive – says the Prime Minister. in the latest book by Bruno Vespa – We have had a Europe that is invasive in small things and absent in large matters. Wouldn’t it be better to leave the debate on the diameter of clams to the national states and instead deal with energy supply at EU level? “. Before leaving for Brussels, after hearing the Japanese Fumio KishidaMeloni talks about the EU on the phone with the Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez reaffirming the cooperation between Italy and Spain on the main issues at the center of the European and international agenda, including the energy issue in the light of the conclusions of the last European Council, collaboration within NATO, the European governance of the economy and migration . Finally, the importance of ensuring strong attention to the challenges coming from the global South was shared.

“Defining ourselves atlantists – continues Meloni in the Vespa book – but not Europeanists frankly seems to me an idiocy. Today everything is extremely ideological. The vulgarity passes that you are a Europeanist if you are a federalist. European federalism centralizes, while national federalism decentralizes. What sense. ha? Do we want to say that the European Superstate did not work? In Europe, much of the decision-making power is in the hands of the Commission, which is indicated by governments, but in our system the sovereignty belongs to the people who exercise it through Parliament. it is something that does not work, especially in a parliamentary republic like ours “. The Prime Minister gives the example of the pandemic: “When Covid arrived, we realized that we had handed over the production of microchips to China. China has obviously decided to favor the domestic market and we have remained dry. then the Commission understood that there was a problem and allocated 50 billion euros to encourage the production of European microchips. But when we raised the problem of controlling fundamental supply chains, they told us that we were self-sufficient “.

Melons and migrants

“Here we must remember what the law of the sea is, which has been invoked so often. Italy to ferry migrants openly violates the law of the sea and international legislation. If an NGO ship flies the German flag, for example, there are two cases: either Germany recognizes it and takes charge of it or it becomes a ship pirate “, comments the premier always in the book by Bruno Vespa talking about immigration. “The strategic approach has changed – he continues -. Immigration, before being a problem of internal politics and public order, is a problem of foreign policy and geopolitics. The only way to solve it is to let Africa speak. with Europe. For this reason I launched the project of a Mattei plan, referring to the great Eni founding strategist who redeemed the oil producing countries from the colonialism of the big American companies. And the restoration of the Sophia operation, born in 2015, that in the third phase, never implemented, envisaged the root of the organizational system of smuggling of human beings, that is what we have always defined as “naval blockade”.

Meloni and Citizenship Income

You – says Vespa to the Prime Minister – have lost votes in the South from people terrified of losing their citizenship income, how do you intend to reform it? “By guaranteeing a decent subsidy to those who really do not have the opportunity to work and, in some cases, improving it (think of the disabled). For the others we intend to draw on the European social fund to start those who can work through paid training courses”.

Melons and abortion

Does Giorgia Meloni want to put her hand to rights, starting with the reform of Law 194 on maternity and termination of pregnancy? “It is an absolute invention. In all my life I have never said that I would put my hand to this law”, explains the premier, answering a question from Bruno Vespa for his book “The great storm”. “I found an interview about twenty years ago”, adds Meloni. “I was asked: are you in favor of reviewing 194? The answer was and is: no. I want to apply it. That is the same answer that I still give today”.

Melons and raves

Giorgia Meloni returns to defend the anti-rave measures: “It is a norm that I claim and of which I am proud because Italy – after years of governments that have bowed their heads in the face of illegality – will no longer be black jersey in terms of safety”. You premised that you want to reassure all citizens “if there was a need” because “we will not deny anyone to express dissent”. The discussion on the decree approved by the Council of Ministers will start from the Constitutional Affairs Commission of the Senate. And it is precisely in Palazzo Madama, where the majority numbers are more dancers than in the Chamber, that Forza Italia aims to make its voice heard. The blue party will present its own amendments but if there is a convergence in the majority it is not excluded that – says a ‘big’ blue – the government can also intervene with corrections. “Parliament can and perhaps will have to intervene in some way in the discussion on the conversion of the decree law. We must absolutely avoid a rule that can, even intuitively, be applied to the legitimate manifestation of a dissent”, explained the Undersecretary of Justice. Sixtus.

The oath of deputy ministers and undersecretaries. Melons tomorrow in Brussels

The President of the Council tomorrow (Thursday 3 November) is in Brussels, where meetings with the highest offices of the European Union are scheduled. It is her first date since she took office in Palazzo Chigi. According to the agenda at 16.30 will see the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola; an hour later, at 5.30 pm, he will meet the president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen; while at 7 pm the face to face with Charles Michel, President of the European Council. While this morning the oath of the new 8 deputy ministers and 31 undersecretaries took place. His team is now complete. “This adventure will be long, we hope, and difficult, for sure. But also exciting, when we will be able to give answers that citizens expect from us,” he told him. Valentina Aprea leaves Forza Italia after almost 30 years after failing to be appointed undersecretary for education.