The Senate Chamber gives the green light to the majority resolution on communications from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in view of the next EU Council.
In the afternoon the Prime Minister will be in the Chamber.
“I also want to express in this chamber the human closeness to the families of the victims of the terrifying Hamas attack on 7 October. My great concern is for the fate of the hostages and my dismay is for the brutality of Hamas”, he told the Senate. “We strongly request the release of the hostages – he added – starting from women, children and the elderly”. The entire Chamber stood up to applaud when Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed “closeness to the victims of Hamas violence”.
“I am convinced that working concretely, and with a defined timeline, on a structural solution to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis would also be the most effective way possible to expose Hamas’s bluff in the eyes of the Palestinians and help defeat it,” the prime minister said.
“I have decided to personally participate in the Cairo conference, choosing to be the only G7 member nation to participate at leader level.” This because I consider dialogue with Arab and Muslim countries vital at this stage – and Italy historically plays a bridge of dialogue between Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East – to prevent us from falling into the trap of a clash between civilisations”, stated Meloni.
‘Don’t weaken support for Kiev, future in the EU’
“In a world where there are no longer any insurmountable red lines, it is an unsafe world for everyone, even for us, not just for those involved in conflicts.” “It is no coincidence that there were no Russian-specific condemnations of the Hamas attack.” For this reason we intend to reiterate “support for the Ukrainian people. We must not make the mistake of weakening support for the Ukrainian cause”. Italy looks “not only to the present but to a future of peace, to a European future for Ukraine”, said Meloni in the Senate.
‘We defend the EU borders to avoid the Schengen drift’
The risk that Schengen “could fall apart” is “clear”, as highlighted by some European representatives, and “it is a concern that we share, but even more so the only way to avoid this drift is to defend the external borders of the EU “said the Prime Minister.
“Intelligence confirms that The greatest risks for us may come from the Balkan routethis is the reason that pushed the government to act promptly by suspending Schengen and restoring controls with Slovenia,” Meloni said.
“The president herself” Ursula von der Leyen “has recently sent a letter to the Council acknowledging the concrete steps taken in this direction and announcing, among other things, a imminent measure to strengthen the legal framework and European policies to combat human trafficking. It is a significant commitment that we are ready to support”, underlined Meloni.
‘A green deal with forced stages is short-sighted’
We must “support the double transition by decreasing dependence on third countries” such as “China”. Italy supports this objective but “imposing the provisions of the green deal in forced stages is a mistake that risks impacting citizens who could pay the price”. We need a “pragmatic approach to the transition” so that it is economically and socially “sustainable”. The risk of a “short-sighted approach” is the “industrial desertification of our continent”.
Must “deduct these investments” in digital, green and defense transitions which are “also promoted by Brussels” or it would be “a contradiction that risks undermining the objectives of sustainability and security. Italy will support the need to” separate “these items entirely”. Thus the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Senate for communications in view of the EU Council.
‘Keeping high the ambition of a European sovereign wealth fund’
“In our idea, the package logic certainly includes financial support for Ukraine, but it must also include the development of partnerships with the countries of the Southern Neighborhood and Africa, in particular with those of origin and transit of migrants, and must foresee the need to keep the ambition of the proposed ‘Step’ Regulation high, the platform which represents the first embryo of a European sovereign fund”, said Prime Minister Meloni.
‘The majority is united, get over it’
“Our political majority is compact, get over it. The government has a legislative horizon”, he said again Meloni, in communications to the Senate in view of the European Council.
“The new rules must aim at reducing debt in a gradual and sustainable way, only in this way can they be credible and applicable, overcoming the mistakes of the past. We can say this from the credibility demonstrated this year, with fiscal and budget policies serious and responsible” as shown by “the confidence of savers, as seen from the success of our government bonds, which of the markets – Piazza Affari has returned to pre-crisis levels and the spread, so dear to many, is permanently below the levels that c ‘they were before this government took office.”
The Prime Minister’s speech in the Senate The reply in the Senate
The more the EU “expands”, the more “I don’t think that” the issue “will be resolved by changing the rules on unanimity – the prime minister then explained to the Senate. It wouldn’t work anyway. We need to discuss not the rules but the priorities. The more we are , the more we can’t think of taking care of minimal things” and this is why I have been defined as “eurosceptic”. The EU dealt with “things that could have been left to national competences, and not with grand strategies”, “we didn’t have what the union was for”.
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2023-10-25 12:57:00
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