Arms in Kiev, the empty benches of the Northern League in the Chamber. And Meloni warms up on migrants: "Slander"
The absence of Salvini's ministers becomes a coincidence, the line of Palazzo Chigi is: no tension
Giorgia Meloni flies to Brussels to take stock of Ukraine with the other European leaders. No space, during the EU Council, for the delicate issue of migrants because the merits will only be addressed in the summer.
But in the meantime, in the House in the Chamber, the question and answer is still going on with the opposition on the management of the landings . The premier warms up on the issue, claiming to have heard "slander and falsehood" against the Executive , "the Italian State" and the Coast Guard . And he defends the choice to involve Europe, to think of a Mattei plan to prevent departures, reiterating that the first thing to do is to extend a hand to Tunisia to avoid "luxuries that no one would know how to govern".
But the empty benches of Northern League ministers also stand out, after the tensions over the issue of arms in Kiev. Matteo Salvini is engaged in various meetings at the ministry, as he does not fail to make known. Giancarlo Giorgetti is not there, but he will then be at the lunch at the Quirinale during which, they say, Meloni would have taken note of the lengthening of the times on migrants and listed to Sergio Mattarella the dossiers on which distances are recorded, starting with those with Germany on state aid. Giuseppe Valditara arrives only an hour after the start of the debate. Then Roberto Calderoli and Alessandra Locatelli, but the fuse is triggered.
Carlo Calenda wastes no time and on Twitter he sees a government "already in crisis and for the wrong reasons". While the dem Andrea Orlando does not exclude that the "higher tones" of the premier's speech, apparently aimed at the M5S, were instead the classic example of those who "speak to their daughter-in-law because the mother-in-law understands. In the absence of the League - he notes - there was tension of a general nature ».
No conflict, no tension, is the official line of Palazzo Chigi. And the war in Ukraine, which the prime minister talks about in a phone call with Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, takes a back seat.
The tone becomes ironic ("I'm not Moses") when Angelo Bonelli replies to the green light, who had brought some dry stones from the Adige to the Chamber due to the drought emergency. He dedicates a passage to green policies, to the Italian battle in Europe to defend the auto sector, also looking at biofuels. Meloni also throws yet another jab at the M5S on the Superbonus because the government, he underlines, has "put the patches on a hole of 40 billion" which only served "to make the banks profit". Then it's up to the Mes that Italy still does not ratify. Meloni does not express himself directly on the point but clarifies that it is a "tool" and as such it cannot be transformed into an "indisputable totem" . Italy's idea is that it should be "adapted" so that it becomes a "useful tool". And ratification could become a negotiating tool in Brussels in the game on the revision of the Stability Pact.
An issue that the prime minister does not address, but which could instead arise in the side meetings of the Council in Brussels, is that of bathing establishments, on which a meeting with Fdi representatives who follow the dossier was allegedly held last Monday.
(Unioneonline/D)
