Passing through Paris, the president of the Italian council Giorgia Meloni will be received on Tuesday by Emmanuel Macron, in particular to discuss the migration file, a source of tension between Rome and Paris… The editorial by Renaud Dély.
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It is an interview that does not really please Marine Le Pen: the president of the Italian council Giorgia Meloni meets Tuesday June 20 Emmanuel Macron. For the European far right, Giorgia Meloni is a pioneer. She has governed for eight months one of the founding countries of the European community. However, if she retains a good popularity rating in power, it is because she is anti-Le Pen. For example, she renounced the unilateral naval blockade she promised during her campaign to try to merge into a common immigration policy. Italy has approved the EU’s new asylum and migration pact, and Giorgia Meloni even accompanied Ursula von Der Leyen to Tunis two weeks ago as part of cooperation between Europe and Tunisia.
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Jiminy Cricket
All this does not please Marine Le Pen, because Meloni is a bit like her “Jiminy Cricket”, her bad conscience. It is normalization that works, including in power. Last week, on franceinfo, Marine Le Pen also scratched the lack of “political will” from the head of the Italian government. She even assured that “Italy’s freedom of action is hampered by its budgetary situation”. It must be said that on the economy, Giorgia Meloni is a model European. It has presented a very rigorous budget, with a deficit lower than that of France and Italy is fully committed to the European recovery plan of which it is the main beneficiary. In short, Meloni applies to reassure the financial markets when Marine Le Pen continues to castigate Brussels.
The gap is therefore widening between the Italian extreme right and its French counterpart. The divisions are clear during votes in the European Parliament where MEPs sit in competing groups. And this is likely to get worse during the campaign for the European elections. Because Giorgia Meloni is resolutely Atlanticist, pro-American, and fervently supports Ukrainian President Zelensky while Marine Le Pen maintains a guilty indulgence for Russia. Moreover, when Jordan Bardella sketched a cautious my culpa by confessing a “collective naivety“On Putin, he was immediately called to order by his boss. At the RN, there are fundamentals with which we do not joke.