Meloni’s sin. The European inertia of the government which penalizes Italy

Support for Ukraine in the war and relations with major Atlantic partners. The Viminale’s anti-migrant shift and the absence of political answers to the open economic issues on the EU table. Italy ended up in a corner on the big dossiers not for conspiracies but for its own demerits

Cursed regional elections in Italy. Pessimism is a resigned way of looking at reality. But between circumstantial optimism and realism, even if it is difficult for her when she is in government and not in opposition, politics must always prefer the second path. With the government’s pre-eminent attention to the regional authorities yesterday in Lombardy, which marked the government’s identity initiatives from refugees in the Mediterranean to acceleration on the differentiated autonomy of the regions, last Thursday and Friday’s European Council instead proved unequivocally that in its first 100 days the Meloni government it did not get into the right path on the major dossiers open on the EU table. The Prime Minister’s statements of great satisfaction at the end of the meeting were released for electoral purposes. Everyone saw how it really happened.