G7, Meloni looms large and claims the “historic results” obtained. The comment
She was clearly the most awaited, not only because she showed up at the Borgo Egnazia event as hostess, as Italy is the rotating president of the G7, but also because, after the tsunami of the European elections, it is the leader who leads perhaps the most solid government of the entire continent. But this very fact could paradoxically have been a risk factor, because it increased even more the responsibility and expectation of the Prime Minister with the eyes of the world focused on her. Certainly in recent months the prime minister has greatly contributed to his activism in foreign policy increased its standing and its authority at an international level, but the G7 could be considered as the real test, a sort of maturity exam. Well in the end we can safely say that the exam was passed with flying colours. The Prime Minister claimed “historic results” for a G7 which certainly did not go almost unnoticed, like others in the past.
Now whether the results can actually be defined as historic or not, we will be able to see in the coming months, but it certainly cannot be denied that concrete results have been achieved, in spite of the expectations of the eve and of those who tried to make life difficult for the landlady. As in the striking case of French President Macron, who tried to have the topic of abortion included in the final document, hoping to put Meloni in difficulty. On the other hand, the fact that the two never loved each other too much is certainly not just a journalistic reconstruction. A conflictual relationship, from the beginning which arises not only from a profound diversity of views and ideas on many points, but also from a clear distance from a character point of view, which certainly doesn’t help. If we then add the fact that the Melons ability in these months of foreign policy, he has certainly dominated the already very tarnished figure of the transalpine president, and the result is what we have witnessed in recent days in Borgo Egnazia. The frost with which Meloni, in fact, he welcomed the French president to the gala dinner with President Mattarella at the Castello di Svevo in Brindisi, it was a plastic and eloquent public demonstration of this. But even the attempts of an increasingly sad and shaky Macron clashed with the firmness of Meloni who, after openly accusing the Frenchman of wanting to campaign at the G7, obtained that the topic was not present in the final document. But even on the Mattei plan for Africa which has been at the center of the attention of the big players, Meloni can say that she has achieved important results. The G7 has in fact endorsed this project which goes in the direction of developing a continent which is the future of the coming decades.
Biden then praised the prime minister for her fierce support for Ukraine, and in the bilateral meeting they reiterated the need to increase efforts for peace in the Middle East, recognizing the central role of our country also on this front. The release of the 50 billion for the Ukrainians is perhaps the most concrete and important result achieved by the summit. But how can we fail to remember the first historic time of a Pope at a meeting of the G7 leaders. This is another important recognition by the pontiff towards the prime minister, towards whom he has always shown a very benevolent attitude (not only for the attention to the issues dear to the church on abortion and the traditional family), to her role and to its credibility in the eyes of the world. But it is on another issue of immigration, another issue that is very much felt by the prime minister as well as by all the world’s greats, she obtains from the world’s greats a commitment to strengthen the commitment to combating irregular immigration. The seven in fact welcome the Italian proposal and launch “the G7 coalition to prevent and combat trafficking migrants“. It was an important test and the risk that, as often happens in these forums, the usual downward compromise would be reached without touching upon the many points on the table, was very high. The prime minister’s great merit, however, was that of taking advantage of the undoubted weakness of almost everyone present at the event, for different reasons, to substantially impose his agenda.
And this cannot help but give it further strength in the very complicated negotiations that will open in the next few days to choose the positions of the next presidents of the European commission and council. Before the summit, many international newspapers indicated she was the real one King maker of the next European commission, and even more so after this summit it seems clear that Kingmaker will certainly have a central role, especially if the decisions are taken after the French elections and the result of the legislative elections confirms that of the European ones. It is difficult to understand now how the situation will evolve and which path Meloni will follow, who knows she has the great opportunity to be more decisive than ever in the direction to be given to the new European policy. Supporting Von der Leyen appears to be the most convenient and obvious option at present, but it is not at all excluded that she could shuffle the cards, proposing a new name that can overcome the many mistrusts, even within the same group of the European People’s Party , which hover over the reconfirmation of the current president of the commission.
The red circle date is that of next 27 and 28 June, when the first European Council will take place in Brussels, which should have decided on the appointments, even if now the unknown factor of the French vote could postpone everything by a few week. Meanwhile, Meloni is enjoying another international success, in spite of those who predicted international isolationism for her and our country and a worsening of relations with the main world leaders. As has often happened in these 18 months of government, the girl from Garbatella once again, using a sporting metaphor, has sensationally denied the predictions of the day before.
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