"I recall other party leaders declaring in the foreign press during the election campaign that if I had won, Italy would have taken risks and the right would have bankrupted the country. In my three years as president of the European Conservatives, I have never given a foreign media interview. I didn't do it because I was in opposition and couldn't conduct interviews without criticizing our country's leadership, and I don't criticize Italy beyond its boundaries; it's a matter of patriotism". This was stated by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in response to the Senate in anticipation of the EU Council meeting today and tomorrow. The premier emphasizes that "it is an all-Italian issue," saying, "I have the feeling that in this country the problem is us, that those who are not aware of how much Italy is regarded in the rest of the world are us: it is an all-Italian problem." The premier also notes that "in the election campaign someone instrumentally asserted that with a government headed by Meloni and with a center-right administration Italy would have been isolated in the world, as if it were feasible to isolate a founding nation of the EU and NATO, which has a leading role in the Mediterranean and which is a unique historical in the world context." According to the Prime Minister, "the fear of a change of direction in the Ukrainian war had to be there if others had won".
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