It is frost between Matteo Salvini and Antonio Tajani. The last lunge of the League against the Foreign Minister, through Claudio Durigon, is an invitation to “be helped” in the relationship with the USA, because “it is in a somewhat difficult position” since “is a supporter of Ursula and its rearmament plan and we all know that Von der Leyen has no great relations with the American administration”. And the blue leader did not take it at all. In the middle there is Giorgia Meloni, who in recent weeks has been irritated a lot for the activism of the League leaderalso on the delicate international dossiers. While The opposition speak of “distrust of the League against Tajani” and government in crisis.
Durigon’s message in an interview in Repubblica catalyzes attention since early morning yesterday, when the top of FIs are gathered in Milan for an event on Europe. “An initiative born on the suggestion of Marina Berlusconi”, says Letizia Moratti, and the underlining inevitably recalls the doubts expressed a month ago by the knight’s daughter on Trumpian strategies, praised by the Leagueists and followed carefully by the premier, in his attempt to equidistance between Washington and Brusxelles. “Everyone needs to be helped, me too. But I don’t feel in difficulty, the voters will judge him,” Tajani points out, and with a view to the internal dialectic, other declarations are also readable.
As The input to “go ahead with the Salva Milan” (on which the majority could be confronted in the Senate within a couple of weeks). Or the invitation to “prudence” on duties, because “muscle tests are nonsense”. The one to the Minister of Economy, the League player Giancarlo Giorgetti, “to make sure that the Italian stock exchange remains in solid Italian hands”. Or the underlining of the blue leader on the patriots, the European group of the League, which “are out of any political game in Brussels”. As well as that on the “populist parties ‘Quaquaraquà'”.
But also the Dante’s observation: “Sometimes they also attack us harshly, ‘I don’t think about them but look and pass'”.
For Elly Schlein the Lega-Fi clash “in any country would have already opened a government crisis”. The executive “is no longer standing”, Angelo Bonelli agrees. And Riccardo Magi claims that “Meloni does not have a majority in foreign policy” and wonders “with what credibility it will go to the top of the coalition of the willing Thursday “https://gazzettadodelSud.it/articoli/politica/2025/03/24/gelo-tra-salvini-e-tajani-nuove-per-me-e-schlein-4D94162d-21a7-948a-014021254BEE/” I delude “, Tajani short cuts, while behind the scenes the firefighters of the majority try to downsize the fibrillations. “Salvini has a congress in April, he wants to show that the League is central”, we think among the blues. “Giorgia always knows how to summarize,” the Melonians observe.
Yet majority sources say that lately the two vice premiers practically do not speak, and cross only in the Council of Ministers. The neighbor is scheduled for Monday 31. And in the coalition there are those who first hope for a summit among the leaders to try to lower the tensions. In part they are also linked to the passage of the deputy Davide Bellomo from the League to Fi, and to the competition between allies on the territories, the recurring theme in the warehouses between the participants in the two days of the League political school in Rome. A summit is still not scheduled. A comparison could serve to define the position that Meloni will bring on Thursday to Paris at the ‘willing’ summit, on Kiev’s assistance strategies: The premier so far has insisted on the extension of the guarantees born to Ukraine but takes altitude of the hypothesis of a multinational operation under the UN aegida.
If there is a frame of the United Nations, it means that the USA will agree and therefore the League will also approve, we think among the allies of the Salvini party. Meanwhile, the Northern League continue the pressing to arrive at a bilateral understanding with Washington on the duties. We must “find exemptions from products that are not competing to American ones”, underlines the Leagueist Claudio Borghi, according to which “relying on the EU is like embracing a cast iron life jacket”.