During her general policy speech, the new head of the Italian government tried to reassure Brussels and Rome’s partners.
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Giorgia Meloni seeks to shed the “post-fascist” label. The new President of the Italian Council denied on Tuesday, October 25, any “proximity” with fascism, during his speech on general policy before the deputies. “I have never had any sympathy or closeness to anti-democratic regimes. For any regime, including fascism”, underlined the one who was in her youth an admirer of Mussolini. Giorgia Meloni, who with her far-right Fratelli d’Italia party won a historic victory in the Italian legislative elections, was officially appointed head of government on Friday. The 45-year-old Romaine, the first woman to hold this position, succeeded in “demonize” his party to come to power.
The head of government also anchored Italy at the heart of the European Union and NATO. Giorgia Meloni promised Italy would stay “a reliable partner of NATO in support of Ukraine which opposes the aggression of Russia”, assuring that the country was going “respect the rules” Europeans. She explained that the Italian approach was not to “to slow down and sabotage European integration” but to make the community machine work better.
These statements are intended to reassure Brussels and Rome’s partners, as Giorgia Meloni has pro-Russian partners in her coalition, including League leader Matteo Salvini and Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi, a personal friend of Vladimir Putin. “Caving in to Putin’s energy blackmail wouldn’t solve the problem, it would make it worse, paving the way for further claims and blackmails and future increases (price) energy even greater than those we have experienced in recent months”said the President of the Council.