between Meloni and Macron, it (still) sparks

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Behind the surface quarrel between Meloni and Macron over Zelensky’s visit to Paris, it is Italy’s place between France and Germany that is at stake.




Par Emmanuel Beretta

The relationship between Emmanuel Macron and Giorgia Meloni (in red) is currently a bit electric.
The relationship between Emmanuel Macron and Giorgia Meloni (in red) is currently a bit electric.
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Giorgia Meloni does not give up so easily. On Friday, the day after the Special European Council, the President of the Italian Council once again thrashed the French President, guilty in her eyes of having organized, with Olaf Scholz, a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris the day before the said summit, to treat his image in public opinion. She had already judged that this visit was “inappropriate”.

According to her, this three-way meeting was likely to “weaken the image of compassion” that the meeting of the 27 around the Ukrainian president was to send to European public opinion. “I was not interested in being or not being in the photo, she defends herself. If I had been invited, my advice would have been not to have this meeting, ”he says…


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