A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI #182: Meloni in good living rooms (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Since she became prime minister, Meloni has started frequenting the high 
society of Brussels. she and she more and more often she is framed in 
affable conversation with Ursula von der Leyen and Roberta Metsola. The 
Italian Prime Minister has entered the community political arena, 
elbowing her way and making it clear that she can be very useful as a 
mediator in relations with the extreme (right-wing) wings of the 
political spectrum: her good relations with Orban which we have recently 
seen put to the test are significant. Strengthened by these first 
attempts, the Italian Prime Minister maneuvers to introduce other 
associates of hers and uses the fateful phrase as a calling card: "he is 
with me", to accredit Éric Justin Léon Zemmour and Marion Jeanne 
Caroline Maréchal, leaders of the French Nazi-fascist party Reconquête, 
as well as the neo-Nazis of Alternative for Deutscheland preparing their 
entry into the European Conservatives and reformists, with the aim of 
clearing them and calling them to be part of the new alliance which will 
elect the new Commission after the European elections.
Competing with her is her ally-competitors in Italy Salvini, not so much 
because he seems to be the one who maintains the best relations with 
Marie Le Pen, a possible candidate in the presidential elections in 
France, but because he seems to be the one who has the best relations 
with the winner of the Dutch elections, Wilders. Its objective, not 
surprisingly, is to consolidate relations with the farmers' parties that 
are emerging all over Europe, a danger that we have long pointed out as 
the poisoned fruit of the policy of supporting the war, to an 
unconditional entry of Ukraine in the European Union, without evaluating 
the economic consequences of this choice for the other countries of the 
Union.
The farmers are aware of having been identified by the Brussels 
bureaucracy as the social group on which to draw, causing both the 
weight of the green policy and the costs of the war to fall mainly on 
it, starting from the belief that until now this sector has been largely 
privileged by the budget and community policy. Therefore they mobilize 
and rebel, strengthened by the fact that it is difficult to get in front 
of a person driving a tractor and try to convince him to retreat: 
tractors are not attacked easily by the police! With their mobilization 
the farmers have gone to the heart of the problem, hitting the community 
budget and making it clear that in the current economic economic phase 
the role of the various production factors must be reviewed if we want 
to continue pursuing the creation of a green economy; that the times and 
methods of the program must be remodulated and that, in any case, the 
simultaneous conduct of the war with the aim of achieving a reconversion 
of the production model are obviously economically incompatible.
This obvious truth does not appear to be shared in the political debate 
of the parties that are going to the European elections with the result 
that the new Commission will be without a mandate on this essential 
issue and that therefore everything will be resolved in a blank 
delegation to the Brussels bureaucrats, without that the citizens of the 
Union take the decisions necessary to steer European politics towards 
positive outcomes.

The internal consequences of the European vote

Having set aside what would be the real themes of the debate, the 
European elections will be used in Italy to measure the strength of the 
consensus towards the Government but above all to verify the consistency 
of the balance of power between the parties of the coalition and resolve 
a dispute which agitates the two sides. Within the right-wing one they 
will serve to measure how much consensus Meloni has managed to erode 
within the League and Forza Italia and vice versa; within the left they 
will serve to sanction the distance between 5 Star Movement and PD or, 
if you prefer, between Conti and Schlein.
The conditions for poor electoral participation are all there but how 
can we blame the voters for having been knowingly expropriated of any 
possibility of expressing themselves on the real issues of the dispute, 
pronouncing on the future steps of community politics if none of the 
contenders presented themselves with a clear program it is the 
misunderstanding on these crucial issues for the future of Europe.

The Editorial Staff

https://www.ucadi.org/2024/02/17/la-meloni-nei-salotti-buoni/
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