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Editorial2024-06-01 12:25:00

Giorgia Meloni, the chameleon who is playing with everyone in the European Union!

Shkruar nga Virginie Malingre & Allan Kaval
Giorgia Meloni, the chameleon who is playing with everyone in the European
Giorgia Meloni

As the leading candidate for her party, the post-fascist political force Fratelli d'Italia Meloni has chosen to over-personalize her campaign, going so far as to ask fellow citizens to write only her first name on the ballot .

Giorgia Meloni's promise to her voters is found in the 3 words of her campaign slogan for the European elections of June 8-9: "Italy changes Europe!". And Italy is itself. As the leading candidate for her party, the post-fascist political force Fratelli d'Italia Meloni has chosen to over-personalize her campaign, going so far as to ask fellow citizens to write only her first name on the ballot .

This is for a very strong reason: Meloni has a lot at stake in this election, the first electoral test for her since her victory in the parliamentary elections in September 2022. It's all about getting a result as good as he that brought it to power, and with the reconfirmation of its dominance over its coalition partners, Matteo Salvini's Lega and Antonio Tajani's Forza Italia.

But through these elections, Meloni hopes to strengthen her position in Europe as well. She wants to consolidate her place at the table of the European Council, which brings together the 27 heads of state and government of the European Union, while giving herself a central position in Strasbourg that can make or break a majority in the European Parliament.

So she hopes to instigate an "identity change" in Europe from within, as she announced at the rally of the Spanish far-right party Vox on May 19 in Madrid, where she intervened with a video speech. Since taking office as prime minister in October 2022, Meloni has tried to convince her European counterparts that she has her rightful place next to them.

that the Italy of her party deserves their attention, and that she is fully part of the concert of European nations.

She wants to be confirmed as a reliable and respected interlocutor. "Meloni wants to assert herself as a leader of the classical right," said a senior European official. And it doesn't matter that in Italy, on matters outside the competence of the EU, Meloni makes ultra-conservative decisions, such as his support for the presence of anti-abortion protesters in hospitals to discourage women from having abortions.

In Brussels, Italy wants to be a reputable figure. And it seems to be working: On May 23, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave a nod of approval, assuring that Meloni "is clearly pro-European". When she took the reins of her country in October 2022, Meloni's past was not good enough to receive public praise less than 2 years later.

“Le ta shkatërrojmë BE-në në formën aktuale!”- tha ajo në vitin 2019 në Konferencën e Veprimit Politik Konservator në Shtetet e Bashkuara, në të cilën ishte ftuar. Ajo nuk e fshehu se ishte pro-Trump. Sipas Melonit të atyre kohëve, BE-ja ishte një “komitet i peshkaqenëve të huave”, se euro ishte një formë skllavërie, dhe se Vladimir Putin një mbrojtës i vlerave tradicionale.

Madje në vitin 2018, kur ishte ende në opozitë, paraqiti një projektligj për t'ia nënshtruar ligjeve kombëtare rregulloret evropiane. Në vitin 2015, ajo deklaroi se kriza e emigrantëve ishte rezultat i një plani nga “nivelet e larta të botës së financës” për të zëvendësuar etnikisht evropianët.

Evropianët ishin të shqetësuar kur Meloni pasoi Mario Draghin në krye të Italisë, dhe kjo ndodhi disa muaj pasi Rusia kishte nisur pushtimin në shkallë të plotë të Ukrainës. Ata i druheshin më të keqes,pra që mbështetja e Romës për Kievin nuk do të ishte më e qëndrueshme, se ajo do të distancohej nga politikat ekonomike e paraardhësit të saj.

Gjithsesi, shpresonin se do të mbizotëronte pragmatizmi. Sepse tek e fundit, Italia mbetet e varur nga fondet e BE-së. E mbytur në borxhe, ajo është në mëshirën e ndryshimit të tregjeve, dhe nëse dëshiron të marrë mbështetjen e madhe të planit evropian të rimëkëmbjes pas Covid-19, duhet t’i përshtatet rrethanave, ose kështu e qetësuan veten evropianët nervozë.

Për fat të mirë, edhe para zgjedhjes së saj, Meloni u dërgoi atyre sinjale pragmatizmi, duke e denoncuar pushtimin rus të Ukrainës më 24 shkurt 2022. Ndërkohë Draghi po përgatitej për një tranzicion, që e dinte se mund të rezultonte fatal për vendin e tij. Ish-guvernatori i Bankës Qendrore Evropiane (BQE) dhe kryeministrja e ardhshme bisedonin shpesh, dhe duket se kryetarja e Fratelli d'Italia, ishte pajtuar me rregullat e ashpra të Brukselit mbi menaxhimin e buxhetit të shtetit.

Një gjë ishte e sigurt:ajo e kishte kuptuar se Draghi mund ta ndihmonte të fitonte legjitimitetin që e ëndërronte. Ndaj Meloni u kujdes të formonte një qeveri të aftë për të qetësuar partnerët e saj evropianë. Ajo zgjodhi si Ministër të Jashtëm ish-kreun e Parlamentit Evropian, Antonio Tajani të Forza Italia.

Ndërkohë emëroi Giancarlo Giorgetti, një anëtar i moderuar i Lega-s dhe ministër në kabinetin e Draghit, si Ministrin e saj të Financave. Po ashtu, udhëtimi i saj i parë zyrtar ishte në Bruksel, ku mbajti një fjalim që përsëriti fjalë për fjalë atë që kishte thënë Draghi në mbledhjen e fundit të Këshillit.

Por në muajt që pasuan, ajo nuk iu kthye reformave të nisura nga paraardhësi i saj. “Ajo dëshiron të jetë pjesë e klubit”- thotë një diplomat evropian. Kur është e nevojshme, i mban premtimet. Pasi ia ktheu shpinën Kremlinit, ajo njoftoi vitin e kaluar se do të largohej nga Nisma Kineze e Brezit dhe Rrugës, gjë që ndodhi në dhjetor 2023.

This move greatly pleased Joe Biden, and despite her closer ties to Donald Trump, he welcomed her to the White House twice, in July 2023 and March 2024. Being part of the European club also means not enter a fray, as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is doing, who is able to blackmail thanks to his veto power. Meloni knows this well, and at no point does he deviate from Budapest. But it takes advantage of its long friendship with the Hungarian leader to act as a mediator, as in the case of unlocking aid of 50 billion euros for Kiev.

"Everyone thought that a dangerous fascist had ascended to the head of Italy. Then they realized that Meloni is a logical conservative, able to cooperate," says Nicola Procaçini, head of the delegation of Fratelli d'Italia in the European Parliament. And Ursula Von Der Leyen is helping him a lot.

When the EC president took Meloni to Tunis in July 2023, and to Cairo in March of this year to sign partnership agreements, she "gave her a European stature", says a European diplomat, for whom this strategy could "counterproductive" life. Because as pleasant as she may seem, Meloni is not so clear about her beliefs about Europe. In the European Parliament, its deputies do not always play by the same rules.

When she supported reform of the Stability and Growth Pact, which governs the public finances of the 27 member states, Fratelli d'Italia representatives in Strasbourg abstained. Even regarding the Pact on Migration and Asylum, MEPs from Fratelli d'Italia did not support it in full.

"Giorgia Meloni is playing a double game. On the one hand, in the Council, it is presented as a respected partner. Meanwhile in Strasbourg, its deputies send a different message" - says Valérie Hayer, the main candidate for Macron's coalition in the European elections. Although Marine Le Pen is calling on her to join forces, she is not reacting. "Melon is a chameleon. But I am sure she has been negotiating with Le Pen for several months. Because he wants to establish good relations with the woman who in 2027 could be the next president of France. Meloni is the most cunning of the European heads of state and government" - says the senior European official. / Adapted from "PAMFLET ", taken from  Le Monde

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