Until the last legislature, Italy’s anchoring to Europeanism and Atlanticism was not news. If he became one, if Draghi had to reassert the country’s loyalty to the Union and the Pact, because in the years of populist traction the traditional points of reference had jumped: Salvini said he was better off in Moscow than in Paris or Berlin, Di Maio he looked to Venezuela and Conte – as premier of the yellow-green cabinet – signed the agreement with China on the silk road while boasting of being part of the people, as Trump also says. A double line that has never been disavowed, indeed claimed in his last speech as prime minister. It was January 21 and Conte in the Chamber theorized that Italy was similar to the United States and China: the head of delegation of the Pd Franceschini and the Minister of Defense Guerini had to intervene to force him to change register in the Senate and to force him to greet the advent at the Biden White House, which had just been sworn in the day before.
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evident then as in four months on foreign policy there was the greatest rate of discontinuity between Draghi and his predecessor. And the return to orthodoxy, declined on a new basis, is forcing (almost) all parties to reposition themselves. Today, for example, Salvini no longer talks about Putin. He holds a videoconference with Trump’s former right-hand man, Giuliani, for – in line with our Prime Minister – he specifies that relations between Italy and the United States will remain excellent regardless of the color of the American administration. It is not clear whether the change is dictated by conviction or convenience, but there is more than one reason – according to the Foreign Affairs manager of Lega Fontana – to support the premier’s line, which surprised us positively: Germany starts again with the rigorist logic; about Turkey he says things that we can only think about; in the Mediterranean it moves to guarantee the lost centrality of Italy ….
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On the right also the Trumpian Meloni he made a change of course, first by filing a parliamentary motion embracing Biden’s economic doctrine on corporate taxation, then applauding Vice President Harris’ hard line on immigration. And Berlusconi, who never moved from the shore of the Atlantic despite his relations with his friend Vladimir, can finally remember how for years I have been repeating unheard how much China is a threat to us. Therefore it is recognized in the action of the premier, to whom the Financial Times has just dedicated an article, explaining in detail how he acted to prevent the Dragon from getting his hands on Italian companies considered strategic. Some moves remain reserved, others are amplified by the media. In April, the arrest of Navy officer Biot – accused of spying for Moscow – was made known with great prominence precisely to send a warning to Putin, as Guerini implied.
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It is no coincidence that there is a strong harmony between the prime minister and the holder of the defense, renamed the minister of the deep state, who plays the most Atlanticist line in the Democratic Party. This is where an area is still linked to certain old references, as explained by an authoritative dem exponent who at the time of the Conte government denounced the presence of a Chinese party, very influential on Palazzo Chigi. At the time, what was striking was a speech delivered by D’Alema at the Eurasian Forum: The West is a great power that is experiencing a rancorous old age, hostile to the rest of the world. To Russia, Iran, Turkey, China. The praise that the former premier reserved the CCP the other day is coupled with what he argued at the Forum: Europe has a role in relations with the USA, representing a territory where culture, diplomacy and tradition prevail legal. While the Americans have always presented themselves strong in their military supremacy.
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Gone are the times when he called Condi George W. Bush’s Secretary of State D’Alema now appears to have a strong ideological influence on Grillo and some of his followers. Yesterday, Cinquestelle Petrocelli, president of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, showed his pro-Chinese stigmata in an interview with Republic, specifying that the communist model of Beijing accepted by a billion people. The League asked him to resign. The Democratic Party more prudently asked him to be more prudent. Di Maio hasn’t asked him for anything, even if he has long since repudiated the Supreme Count and abandoned the Count to his fate. Converted to Europeanism and Atlanticism, the head of the Farnesina memorized Draghi’s doctrine: Because our foreign policy – the premier specified – cannot be limited to these two principles. It must also protect the national interest. Concept that still tabs for part of the Democratic Party.
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