Back and forth between Giorgia Meloni and Elly Schelin on the ESM , i.e. the European Stability Mechanism with which EU member countries can obtain financial assistance under specific conditions.

«The debate on the ESM is a very Italian and also very ideological debate, it testifies to the instrumentality of certain positions: you cannot talk about the ESM if you don't know the context. Certain statements make me smile, like the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein who says "we can't keep all of Europe at a standstill" . Maybe he doesn't know that the ESM exists, anyone who wants to activate it can easily activate it. Perhaps we need to ask ourselves why, at a time when we are all bending over backwards to find resources, no one wants to activate it: this would be the debate to open", said the prime minister speaking at the presentation of PhotoAnsa 2023.

"If it was so essential to ratify it quickly, you were in the Government for four years, why didn't you do it?", said Meloni again, addressing the centre-left. Adding: «I think that the instrumentality of certain internal debates does not take into account the possible damage caused to Italy. A serious government takes the context into account and uses tools in that context, we are talking about tools and not ideological totems ."

The response from the dem leader is ready: « Giorgia Meloni is playing the three-card game . She is too busy defending an indefensible economic maneuver and forgets the facts. First: what he is discussing is not the activation of the ESM but the ratification of the treaty that modifies it. Second: 26 out of 27 countries have already ratified the changes. They are countries governed by coalitions of all political colors. Third fact: only Italy remains, because the right is a prisoner of its ideological propaganda."

(Unioneonline/lf)

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