“By attacking Emmanuel Macron, the Italian right reactive the antifrançais reflexes” | EUROtoday

PAs per week spent in Italy with out the commentators raining criticism of the motion of France and its president. For the thurifiers of the Italian govt, the procrastination of the overseas coverage of the Giorgia Meloni authorities seem as so many alternatives to spotlight the rivalry with Paris.

The place of Italy within the “coalition of volunteers”, that’s to say the group of European nations who’re supposed to be engines in supporting Ukraine, is a elementary query in Rome. This downside is especially thorny for an Italy which has at all times designed European affiliation and transatlantic hyperlinks reminiscent of the 2 unwavering and inseparable pillars of its worldwide projection. Donald Trump’s second presidency triggered a disaster of this world imaginative and prescient, which Giorgia Meloni seeks to handle by multiplying makes an attempt at dialogue with the American administration with out departing from a type of European orthodoxy, effectively illustrated by flawless help for kyiv.

During his go to on April 17 on the White House, M^me Meloni insisted on the protection of Western unity, to make an ideological foot name to the groups of Donald Trump. There is a divergence there with many European nations which, like France, emit reserves on the solidity of the Alliance with the United States, whereas Italy desires to consider that the transatlantic relationship will regain its “natural” course after the overflows initially of the mandate. This divergence shouldn’t be eluded, particularly because it doesn’t seem as unacceptable, in view of the Italian fidelity in European issues.

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