An assault that Poland has been experiencing for 500 years. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski reveals solidarity with Italy and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, after Russian Vladimir Solovyov’s statements on TV and on social media. The journalist and presenter accused the prime minister of “supporting” fascist values by supporting the “Nazis of Kiev”.
«Insults as a medal of honor»
«You are experiencing what we have now been experiencing for 500 years – he instructed Zeta Luiss (the web site of the Massimo Baldini School of Journalism) – loopy Russian nationalism calls for dominion over neighboring nations. I instructed Minister Tajani that Prime Minister Meloni ought to put on these insults as a medal of honor; if the dangerous guys insult you, it means you are on the nice aspect. I can guarantee you that he has not saved sufficient cash, together with his pension as a journalist, to have the ability to afford a big villa on Lake Como. It was confiscated from him by the earlier Italian authorities, so he’s venting his frustrations on the Prime Minister. A determine that, nevertheless, in Poland we admire enormously.”
The meeting with Tajani and commercial relations with Italy
The meeting with Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani took place during the Italy-Poland Strategic Forum. Trade between the two countries grew in 2025 (+2.2%), reaching 37 billion euros: an increase in exports was recorded (+6%), for 21 billion. In this context, Italy is Poland’s 6th customer and 4th supplier: Italy’s market share is 4.6%, second only to Germany (25.5%) among European economies.
NATO spending
Among the topics touched on there is also NATO. In two ways: Trump’s threat to force the United States out and the difference in military spending between Italy and Poland. «Technically speaking – Sikorski replied on the first point – President Trump cannot dissolve NATO and cannot withdraw the United States from the alliance, thanks to a law approved by Congress whose promoter was Senator Marco Rubio. It worries me that Trump talks about NATO as “them” rather than “us”.
On the second level, nevertheless, the Polish minister thinks that Italy should do extra. Spending has reached 2% of GDP, whereas in Poland the proportion reaches 5%, i.e. the subsequent required goal. Furthermore, for Italy it won’t be doable to activate the European safeguard clause – provided that the nation has not emerged from the deficit infringement process – and subsequently make investments greater than 10 billion in protection for the subsequent three years.
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