Skip the bilateral Meloni-Zelensky, Italy does not even intervene during the plenary of the 27

No two-way meeting between the premier and the Ukrainian president: the leader included in the group summit with Spain, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Romania

Brussels, from our correspondent. On a not exactly bright day for Italian diplomacy, the second knockout for Italy arrives after lunch: skip the bilateral between Meloni and Zelensky. The appointment was announced yesterday by Palazzo Chigi and by Italian sources in Brussels, precisely in the hours in which the Ukrainian president was flying to Paris to meet Macron and Scholz. Today’s face to face with the Prime Minister would therefore have been a balm to heal the wound after last night’s exclusion from the Elysée. Instead it didn’t go like this.