Internal tensions remain in the majority, linked to the attribution of proxies between the various ministries and the creation of two inter-ministerial committees set up under the presidency of the Council. Meloni is determined to do everything possible to centralize the most delicate dossiers in Palazzo Chigi, so as to be able to personally manage the key games. A strategy that would aim to downsize Matteo Salvini. It is no coincidence that yesterday there was a fair tug-of-war over the establishment of the Committees headed by Palazzo Chigi. The one for the Made in Italy: in the world it passed with relative ease, while the game involving the Committee for the policies of the sea and that for the South. According to the League, two tools to give strength only to Musumeci, who would not have clear powers. On the sea front - which technically reads "ports" and "harbor offices", but politically it means immigration - Salvini does not want to take a step back. So much so that just last night, he claimed the government's success with the squeeze on NGO ships. It ended in a draw. With the Southern Committee which jumped in the course of work, and the Committee for the Sea which he had instead the go-ahead from the Council of Ministers.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, yesterday was in Bari with the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella for the celebration of November 4, the day of National Unity and the day of the Armed Forces. Crosetto's note to the press immediately: "It is a special day because we thought we had removed the war and the war idea from Europe, that we were in a world that did not go back, instead we are at the starting point, with the conflict a few kilometers from our home".
Crosetto, interviewed by The Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno explains that the situation of global relations is undoubtedly more complex than they imagined they were 4-5 years ago.
Sui militar the minister emphasizes saying "our military has played a leading role by participating in relevant peacekeeping missions, with NATO and the EU, as well as in training armed forces or police forces around the world. Our Armed Forces are challenged by this change: the role we had imagined has changed and will change again".
Then he explains: "It is one thing to organize the activity as a function of peace operations abroad, it is another thing to think that war can be approaching our home. This is why it is necessary to rethink the models envisaged so far ”.
Change requires investments, as NATO also says: "We thought we could do without these additional appropriations, but recent events give strength to this option".
On the increase in staff, in agreement with the Chief of Defense Staff, Admiral Joseph Cavo Dragone: "To determine an increase are the tasks we carry out and the task of defending the country: it takes more men and younger than the current staff of the Defense. The model must be rethought and the ability of the Defense to react promptly in Italy and abroad must be rebuilt. It is necessary to have people who can do it, age is not irrelevant".
OnUkraine: “The length of the conflict, which risks going on for another time. The winter will see a slowdown in ground activities, but with a worsened picture due to activities carried out through bombing or missiles, with civilian targets hit, civil and energy infrastructures destroyed. In this way, the psychological basis of public opinion widespread in Ukraine is undermined" "With the stopping of the clashes, the conditions for opening spaces for dialogue can arise, on which everyone must not lose hope ”.
Sul Mediterranean, as Giorgia Meloni told the Chambers, it will be necessary to relaunch Italy's central role in the Mediterranean: "We have to take on a different guise in the Mediterranean because we are the only European country completely within the Mare nostrum. Here our diplomatic, economic and political relations are at stake, passing through energy supply, commercial and cultural relations. In recent months we have been able to find the political significance of international relations linked to energy resources".
“We still experience the virtuous benefits inherited from the relationships built by Enrico Mattei, while the negativity of the effects of the war in Libya remains, at a time when we would have needed more substantial supplies of gas and oil from Tripoli. We must decide to have greater cooperation with the Mediterranean countries: they are essential in terms of security, energy, economy".
“We need to have a more important posture in the Mediterranean, to be leaders of a part of the world”.
Sul Meloni's trip to Brussels"I met Giorgia Meloni at the Altare della Patria. I realized the European trip went very well. There was a very frank dialogue and positive human harmony with all the interlocutors, without exception. The premier was happy".
On criticism of the left"They are unfounded. Our Prime Minister was received with respect, because Italy and you deserve respect. And Meloni took part in the institutional meetings with equal respect and willingness to collaborate".