Just under two weeks before the parliamentary elections in Italy, the top candidate of the right-wing alliance leading the polls, Giorgia Meloni, has promised that Italy will abide by sanctions against Russia over its aggressive war against Ukraine. “Nothing will change under a right-wing government,” Meloni said Monday night in what will likely be the only speech duel with top center-left candidate Enrico Letta.
Former Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who was linked to Meloni, recently questioned the effectiveness of the sanctions. In the weeks leading up to the election, Salvini’s Lega and Meloni’s Parti Fratelli d’Italia (FDI), together with Forza Italia (FI), led by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, had formed an alliance that, according to the latest polls, is running. clearly ahead.
“We need more Europe, not less”
While the far-right FDI sided with Ukraine, both the Lega and the FI have long-standing ties to Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2017, the League signed a cooperation pact with Putin’s United Russia party.
In the duel with Letta, which the daily newspaper “Corriere della Sera” broadcast on its online portal, Meloni demanded that the EU “take care of the big problems” in the future – and leave the responsibility to Member States for matters that concern them more directly. . On the other hand, Letta criticized the legal alliance’s continued insistence on the unanimity principle in the EU, thereby hindering Europe’s action. “We need more Europe, not less,” Letta said.
Source: Krone
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