His feelings about the European Union, Giorgia Meloni recently recalled during an electoral meeting: “I’m told, you know, in Europe they’re a bit concerned about Meloni, what’s going to happen? What will happen is that the party is over: Italy, too, will defend its national interests, as the others do, and then seek common solutions.” A statement that is a perfect concentrate of the philosophy of the leader of Fratelli d’Italia (FDI) vis-à-vis Brussels.
For her, there is no longer any question of leaving the EU, a choice that would be unpopular. But the criticism from Brussels is still there, discreetly addressed to the “heavyweights” who govern the EU. And to the values they defend, believe to know The Guardian. “We can’t not be worried about Meloni. She wants to become the leader of a modern radical right, a right that moves away from the West’s insistence on universal rights and the protection of minorities.” protests the British daily.
Thus, Meloni in vain chaining reassuring speeches, the progressive newspaper invites us not to doubt “the threat that [’elle] represents”: “His long-term strategy will be to tilt the values of the EU in his direction.”