«We cannot consider acceptable the ambiguous attitude of those who promise negotiating commitment and then constantly bomb civilian targets. To get to the negotiating table, therefore, we also need to increase the pressure on Moscow, as we are doing with the 19th package of European sanctions, which we are approving and which will contribute to further reducing the resources that Moscow can allocate to the war effort.” Thus Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in communications to the Senate in view of the European Council. «It is worth repeating an important concept – he added -: the economic sanctions are not against the Russian people, but against the regime that transforms Russia’s wealth into weapons and destruction. Every resource that Russia accumulates today is not used to build schools, hospitals or generate jobs, but serves to finance the war, and the destruction of schools, hospitals or jobs in Ukraine.”
We need to invest in defense and security, “I don’t want Italy to be subordinate to anyone” continued Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Be with Europe or with the United States? «I want to be with the West, strengthening the role of Italy and Europe. This is my strategy and I will continue to pursue it.
«In recent years Europe has not often done its part, it certainly hasn’t done it in terms of security, it certainly hasn’t done it in terms of defence, it certainly hasn’t done it in terms of competitiveness. this places us today in a weak situation.” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this in her reply after the discussion in the Chamber on communications ahead of the EU Council. «The issue is not what we want to do, the issue first of all is what we can do, what we can do in the current scenario – he observed – we can certainly strengthen our competitiveness, we can learn to defend ourselves because I want an Italy that is not subordinate to anyone, unlike what those who tell us that we must not invest resources in security accuse of. I think that we must invest in defense and security precisely because we must be fully sovereign. And therefore mine is a fairly linear position”, he concluded.
“We must all be aware that when Putin tries with drones it is not Europe that is under attack, but the West that is under attack. I think that all those who try to put the issue from the point of view of “decide whether to be with the EU or with the US”, I say that I am with the West”.