The president of the Italian council, Giorgia Meloni, has a problem of balance, abroad and at home. On the international scene, the chief of the far -right executive evolves on a narrow path between its affinities with the Trump administration and its relations with its European partners, while in Rome, it must hold a coalition worked by contrary movements.
On the one hand, forza Italia (center right), a party founded by Silvio Berlusconi, remains resolutely attached to the European anchoring of Italy; On the other hand, his turbulent ally of the league (radical right), Matteo Salvini, embarked on a Trumpist overbidding by multiplying the demonstrations of his alignment with Washington, carried by the reactionary wave in progress.
Having distinguished as a fervent admirer of Vladimir Putin before the invasion of Ukraine, who became vice-president of the Council and Minister of Transport of Mme Meloni in October 2022, he even obtained a fifteen-minute telephone call on March 21, with the American vice-president, J. D. Vance, an declared adversary of the European democratic model. “I read everything about you”,, entrusted, in a momentum reported by the Corriere della will be,, Mr. Salvini to Mr. Vance, author of a bestseller on peripheral America from which he came and on the way in which he came out to become a rich financier after a passage by Yale.
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Source: Lemonde