Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni insisted this Friday meeting of the French president, Emmanuel Macronand the German chancellor, Olaf SchölzWith the President of Ukraine Volodymir Zelensky, One day before the European Union leaders summit It was a political mistake as it could weaken the message of European unity.
“Yesterday’s fair and important was the photo of Volodymyr Zelenski with 27 European countries because that’s the strongest message you can give. To anticipate this determination with a meeting on the side of the domestic public, which risks weakening public opinion.” He was politically wrong about it,” Meloni said at a press conference.
The Italian Prime Minister reaffirmed this in his statement when he arrived at the meeting of EU heads of state and government on Thursday. He described the French president’s invitation to Paris as “untimely”.
Arguing that this was not a reaction to the fact that Italy was not invited to the meeting, Meloni emphasized that “If they had been invited, I would have advised them not to hold the meeting” and this attitude has not left Rome alone since then. “There were two presidents in Paris, the other 25 did not” of the EU
“It’s not easy for any of us to publicly manage the Ukraine issue. We do what we do to support Ukraine because it’s fair, it’s not the best in terms of compromise, but we all have the privilege. It was fair about what was useful in our personal context,” he said.
Regarding his relationship with the French president, with whom he had disagreements over immigration issues, he said: sometimes they work together and other times they “get along less”but in any case these are “political relations” and “not a personal issue”.
“Italy is a sufficiently centralized country in the EU. To be able to say that you do not agree with something compared to the past, to be able to say when it is enough to be in a photograph for us,” said Meloni, and reiterated the full support of Italy and Europe to Ukraine.
The words of Italian politics were asked yesterday, Macron ‘congratulated himself’ for working together on key measures to support Ukraine stressed that it always “respects people and everyone’s preferences”.