Time for change. During meetings, he questions the method, but not the names

Rome – Some controversy surrounds the method chosen by other prime ministers representing the parties of the emerging majority in parliament in relation to proposals for nominations to the European Council, demanding an important role for Italy in the next EU government, renewing criticism of the European Union as distant from its citizens and too bureaucratic, but in fact Giorgia Meloni does not seem to want to stand in the way of Europe’s “top jobs” and instead promises to fight for the policies that the EU will have to develop, at least at government and parliamentary level.

By recasting the Green Deal to “protect nature together with people”, the Green Homes Directive still sets “targets that are too close and burdensome”. Protect farmers ‘affected by furiously ideological measures’; protect entrepreneurs against unfair competition. More importantly, simplify. So much so that he proposed a de-bureaucratization commissioner “to show a change of pace.” These are the Meloni government’s priorities in Europe.

They will appear during the first Council of the new EU parliamentary term (June 27-28), which officially begins on July 16. The definition of the highest positions is getting closer, and Rome, which has been excluded from the negotiations for now, does not intend to remain on the sidelines because the citizens “have spoken”, recalls the Prime Minister during a briefing before the Chamber. The goal is to work for a heavyweight commissioner, “which is our right,” she said.

It is a clear warning: “fireplace logic”, in which “some claim to decide for all”, will not be accepted, rejecting consensus. Not for any “meeting by invitation in European sauce”, warns the conservative leader.

Meloni emphasizes abstinence, which vividly represents growing dissatisfaction. For the first time, turnout in Italy fell below 50 percent, to 48.3 percent of eligible voters. This is a sign – in her opinion – that citizens perceive Brussels as “too invasive” as an EU that “claims to dictate what to eat, what car to drive, how to renovate a house, how much land to cultivate, what technology to develop,” notes the Prime Minister.

Citizens “have made it clear which model they prefer: the one that has been used so far or the one we are proposing,” he says.

One fact emerged from this round of voting that Meloni considers “indisputable”: “The rejection of the policies pursued by the ruling forces in many large European countries, which are often also the forces that have left their mark on the Union’s politics in recent years.”

The prime minister’s response to the “collapse” lies in the need to “privilege a bureaucratic giant with a political giant,” Meloni reiterates. He talks about increasing strategic autonomy, building secure and reliable supply chains and reducing strategic dependencies, making Europe “a place where it pays to invest” but at the same time protecting it from unfair competition from non-EU countries because “a market is free if is fair.” And once again: build new partnerships with Africa, following the example of Mattei’s plan, in which “Italy set the standard” and improve the geographical position of our country, a natural platform in the Mediterranean, to make it a “supply center” and a “bridge between the eastern the Mediterranean, Africa and Europe.

English version by Inhub Translation Service