this party leader extreme right brothers from Italy Thus, it will begin its international agenda with bilateral talks with Von der Leyen, Michel and Metsola, as confirmed by teams of senior community officials.
The Italian Government also elaborated. Meloni will travel to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, next week. Attending the United Nations Climate Summit (COP27) and later the G20 in Bali.
Asked about the discussion of meeting with an extremist leader, von der Leyen’s spokesperson said: The European Commission “openly works with the authorities of all member states” and does not “interfere in the internal political life” of the bloc countries.
Von der Leyen, spokesperson added, Hoping to have a “good cooperation” with the Italian Government about the “challenges of the coming months”, including “difficult” issues such as energy measures, support for Ukraine or the “adequate implementation” of the Italian bailout plan.
Just this week In his first speech to the Italian Parliament, Meloni suggested that he intended to negotiate “adjustments” in the recovery plan with Brussels. This sets out the milestones and reforms that Rome must undertake to access the different tranches of community assistance provided in the European crisis response fund created after the pandemic.
The Community Executive then hastened to emphasize that Member States must adhere to recovery plans on agreed terms and that only in very exceptional cases objective data shows that measures have not been complied with, Brussels may review final changes “on a case-by-case basis”.