Meloni highlights the EU’s growing geopolitical and competitive irrelevance
Italian Prime Minister voiced the growing geopolitical and competitive insignificance of the European Union and spoke about the main objectives of her government.
Italian Prime Minister voiced the growing geopolitical and competitive insignificance of the European Union and spoke about the main objectives of her government.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni voiced the European Union’s increasing geopolitical and competitive insignificance at the closing day of the Meeting Rimini Catholic gathering on Wednesday, where she also spoke about her government’s main objectives.
Giorgia Meloni joined the statements made earlier by Mario Draghi, the former president of the Italian and European central banks. In his speech on the opening day of Meeting Rimini, Draghi believed that the European Union “watches international events as a spectator” and that “all illusions have been dispelled” regarding Europe having any geopolitical power.
“Draghi is right. It seems that the European Union is increasingly condemned to greater geopolitical irrelevance, incapable of responding effectively to the competitiveness challenges posed by China and the United States,” declared Giorgia Meloni.
She believed that Europe must first and foremost rediscover its own cultural and religious roots, which it has wrongly sought to deny in recent times. “Bureaucracy cannot pull us out of the storm; politics can do that. Regulations do not strengthen us; convictions do. Blind ideologies do not liberate our societies; values rooted in reality can,” said Giorgia Meloni. The centre-right prime minister closed the 46th edition of the one-week programme of the Italian Catholic spiritual movement Comunione e Liberazione.
In her nearly one-hour address the prime minister touched on numerous international and domestic issues. Quoting poet Thomas S. Eliot, she explained that in our age too “the nothing strives to gain ground”, seeking to create individuals without national, family or religious identity.
She recalled that her government will enter its third year in October and stressed that thanks to the centre-right, Italy is no longer considered Europe’s “economic sick man”.
She emphasised that Rome has always supported Israel’s right to defend itself, but stated that the Jewish state’s response has gone beyond the principle of proportionality, claiming too many innocent victims and not sparing the local Christian community either. She called for international pressure on the Palestinian terrorist organisation Hamas to release the hostages.
Regarding the war in Ukraine, Giorgia Meloni believed there is room for a negotiated solution.
As for migration, she stressed that only regulated migration can represent economic benefit, while “illegal and uncontrolled migration causes harm to every society”.
“There is no judge, politician or bureaucrat who can prevent us from upholding the laws of the Italian state, ensuring the safety of citizens, fighting the slave traders of the third millennium and saving lives,” Meloni summarised her government’s migration policy.
She announced that they will launch a subsidised housing purchase programme for young couples to support family planning. She emphasised that they are working to create a family- and birth-friendly society: those who have declared the parental role outdated and patriarchal are bad teachers.
“There is nothing modern in renting out the womb of a poor woman, in depriving children of their parents by invoking the law, or in the idea that children should not be brought into the world because they are polluters.”
Gábor Szűcs is currently an analyst at the 21st Century Institute and a political commentator for Megafon.
