WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, UCADI #169: The policy of the Meloni government (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Almost six months after the elections, the profile of the Government and its

strategies are more clearly outlined and the role of its various components
becomes evident . Inside, the prime minister's party, the League and Berlusconi's
patrol operate with different strategies. It is also necessary to distinguish
with regard to the role that the prime minister has given herself and that of her
party. ---- The press, in commenting on the Government's work, focused on spot
measures: the decree on raves, unnecessarily repressive, the botched one on
excise duties which was later modified, the operation of mass distraction with
the Donzelli-Del Mastro "revelations". aimed at hitting the opposition and
overshadowing the affairCospito events that have given palpable demonstration of
the carelessness with which the executive operates, while what matters is that
the 12 amnesties decided in the financial law have remained effective and in force.
All of this is the work and has been managed by the fascist party using "media
expedients" which have seen the government involved in measures of dubious
effectiveness and in any case ideologically characterized and which have marked a
rightward turn in ordinary social management.
In the light of these facts, it was easy to argue that the damage that fascism in
government can cause after all can be contained, all the more so because in terms
of economic policy and public finances, the government has placed itself in a
position of continuity with the choices and decisions of the Draghi government,
which for its part had done everything to provide a narrow space for maneuver for
its successors.
The same does not seem to have happened in foreign policy where, in the wake of
the previous government, full Atlanticism and support for the war was reaffirmed,
disregarding it, as in this case also the previous government did, of the opinion
of the majority of the country, contrary to war. The prime minister's activism in
foreign policy has not escaped the attention of many analysts, with regard to
which the Prime Minister has given her best, reinforcing the axis with
sovereign governments in Europe, first of all with Poland. From this point of
view, the constant clash with France has served to underline the distancing from
the Franco-German axis, in line with the opposition expressed at the time by the
Premier party which voted against the ratification of the Quirinale Treaty with
France.
The premier has silently developed a series of foreign policy initiatives that
have had the Balkan area, Africa and most recently India and the United Arab
Emirates as their object, thanks to the fact that these states are governed by
regimes aligned with conservative positions and right-wing, such as. the Indian
one where Hindu nationalism dominates. This attention to foreign policy must be
subjected to a careful analysis from which it would then emerge that, for now
substantially immobilized on domestic policy, the government has tried to carve
out spaces for autonomous initiative in foreign policy, in the perspective that
by contributing to changing the balance in Europe it can obtain the strength and
resources necessary to change the internal situation of the country.
The dangers and limits of this strategy have clearly emerged, in the face of the
management of emigration and in dealing with the Cutro disaster, by an annoyed
premier incapable of empathy with the victims and their relatives. To her and her
acolytes the population has reserved the peaceful but significant launch of the
soft toys, imagining that they are chasing the smugglers through the terraqueous
orb (modern version of the Duce's invocation "of sky, land and sea ").
The League, dancing on the coffins, showed its ferocity by dividing the tasks
between a cynical jackal (the interior minister) and an institutional butcher,
the transport one with jurisdiction over the coast guard. In this way the party,
frustrated by the drop in electoral support and in support, tries to recover
under the bewildered eyes of a foreign minister who plays the part of the
beautiful statuette waiting for his patron from the Arcore villa to launch
another torpedo towards the premier .

The Mattei plan

But are these successes of yours in foreign policy true? In the sector, the
Government is operating along two lines: the first is the Balkans and the arms
trade, a sector in which its Defense Minister, a good and expert arms dealer, is
very active. He worked in concert with Leonardo and did everything to develop war
shipbuilding, dealing with supplies to Greece, India and the coastal Balkan
countries. This field of intervention also has a strategic value in foreign
policy because it contrasts in an area of sensitive interest for Turkey - the
Balkans - the role of a competitor who never fails to hit Italian interests in
Libya; therefore, Italian activism in the Balkan area could/should lead the
intrusive NATO member ally to more lenient advice.
The second direction is that of North Africa where the government has operated
alongside a shadow minister of foreign affairs and energy, the managing director
of ENI De Scalzi, who not by chance always accompanies the prime minister on her
travels. Hence the signing in Libya for the enhancement of gas and oil supplies,
which however are weighed down by uncertainties due to the country's political
instability. Therefore, in order to diversify gas supplies, the choice was that
of partnership with Algeria which, however, is an ally of Moscow to the point of
carrying out joint military maneuvers in Siberia with Russia and China.
Then there is, with the same intention, the increased supply of gas via TAP
(Trans Adriatic pipeline) coming from Azerbaijan and controlled by Turkey and
after the trip to the Emirates contracts were signed for the very expensive
liquefied gas coming from that area in which ENI operates. For the rest, the
phantom Mattei investment plan in Africa is little more than a slogan, lacking as
it is in funding for Africa and the Mediterranean and this in spite of the fact
that the prime minister has defined it as "a virtuous model of collaboration and
growth between European Union and African nations, also to counter the worrying
spread of Islamist radicalism, especially in the sub-Saharan area." In
conclusion, what remains as a result of so much activism is an unnecessarily
repressive, inhumane,

GL

http://www.ucadi.org/2023/03/22/la-politica-del-governo-meloni/
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