The two met on the sidelines of the usual EPP meeting that precedes the European Council for a bilateral meeting that lasted several minutes
The misunderstandings of the past years are now a distant memory. Now that he dreams of carving out a role as a noble father of the center-right and she sees retirement approaching day by day, Silvio Berlusconi and Angela Merkel can sit quietly next to each other and smile in front of the camera. The reconciliation between the two had already begun at the PPE summit in Madrid in 2015, and then again at that in Malta in 2017, but today’s face-to-face in Brussels served to celebrate “our collaboration that has always had results. concrete and positive “. Or at least that’s what Berlusconi said at the end of the meeting.
The two met on the sidelines of the usual EPP meeting that precedes the European Council for a bilateral meeting that lasted several minutes. The Forza Italia leader gave her a small present “to remember our relationship”. She did not want to reveal the content, but assured that “she liked it very much”. And he has somehow overturned the narrative in vogue in the years of his governments, when the Chancellor was always portrayed as Italy’s enemy at the European tables. Today, in the balance made by Berlusconi, Merkel has become a leader who “has always had a positive and very friendly attitude towards our country”.
“I thanked her for all the years of support she has always given to my requests for Italy – said Berlusconi leaving the hotel where the meeting was held -, including the last time as regards the amount of the funds that have been attributed to us and which are higher than those assigned to each country ”. The Chancellor left the summit without commenting on the meeting, directed to the Europa Building for its European Council number 107, which will in all likelihood also be the last.
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