Meloni on the migrant crisis between Italy and France: “I defend the interests of the nation”

“The diplomatic crisis with France? It didn’t teach me anything. I defend the interests of the nation”. With a clear sentence the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni – during the press conference on the maneuver – he dismissed the question on the migrant affair and the criticisms leveled by the Elysium at Palazzo Chigi.

The defense of the national interest

“I think I did my job defending the interests of the nation – says Meloni – and it doesn’t seem to me that anything around here is collapsing or that with the arrival of a right-wing government there has been isolation or a rising spread. It seems to me there is instead a very serious approach but respectful of the national interest. The plagues of Egypt will not come with the arrival of this government, because when you are respectable you are respected”.

Progress in the EU on migrants

However, dialogue is open with Paris, also in view of the summit of European interior ministers on 25 November in which the EU commission will present a 20-point plan: “With Paris we talk to each other at 360 degrees, I have no big news. Today Nordio, the day before yesterday there was Fitto in France. I haven’t had time to elaborate on the proposal of the EU commission on migrants, Piantedosi is washing us over. Today there is talk of holding meetings to address the issue of migration, which was until yesterday It hadn’t happened. Maybe we’ve taken a step forward.”