MADRID, 2 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The new Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, will make her first international trip this Thursday since taking office, with a visit to Brussels during which she will meet with the presidents of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen; of the European Council, Charles Michel; and from the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola.
Meloni, who has not yet made his debut as Italy’s representative at Council meetings — his predecessor, Mario Draghi, attended the October one — will, however, not hold any meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who is traveling official to Turkey.
The far-right leader claimed Italy’s alliance with both the EU and NATO in her first speech before Parliament and has distanced herself on several occasions from the pro-Russian positions of one of her great partners, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Meloni also suggested in the aforementioned speech that he aspired to negotiate “adjustments” with Brussels in the recovery plan that sets the milestones and reforms that Rome must undertake to access the different tranches of community aid provided for in the European anti-crisis fund created after the pandemic. .
The Community Executive then rushed to emphasize that the Member States must comply with the recovery plans in the terms that have been adopted and that only in very exceptional situations, in which objective data demonstrate the inability to comply with the measures, Brussels could study “case by case” eventual modifications.
Among Meloni’s pending trips is one to the Egyptian city of Sharm el Sheikh to participate in the United Nations Climate Summit (COP27) and another after the G20 leaders’ meeting in Bali, Indonesia. In addition, the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, has publicly invited the Italian prime minister to visit kyiv.
