First the no that was filtering from the Farnesina. Then the yes, matured on the impulse of Giorgia Meloni. The mediation chosen by Palazzo Chigi – an undersecretary instead of a minister – to not leave the Italian seat empty at the Washington summit on the alleged “rebirth of transnational far-left terrorism,” without exposing itself at the highest levels, does not quell the controversies.
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The opposition’s attack
On the contrary. The change of course, in the numerous attacks from the opposition, is worth more than the chosen formula: it confirms that, when there is a choice between Europe and the relationship with Donald Trump, the prime minister continues to favor the transatlantic bond. A “disgraceful” mission, labels it the former Democratic Minister for European Affairs Enzo Amendola, acting as the spokesperson for a broad field that – at least on this front – finds a common target again after the cracks of recent days. And it directly attacks the prime minister, protagonist – attacks the M5s senator Alessandra Maiorino – of a “desperate attempt to get back into the good graces of the American president, even at the cost of embracing the fascist-like model.”
Not just a matter of protocol
It is not just a matter of protocol. On the table at the conference hosted by Marco Rubio is one of Trump’s obsessions: the antifa, cataloged as a galaxy of collectives and movements without a control room or a unified structure, under which very different realities fall, from anti-Ice protests to university marches up to the radical left. Last year the tycoon, who already during the Black Lives Matter protests in his first term had made Antifa one of his symbolic enemies, labeled them with an executive order as an “internal terrorist organization.” A definition that finds no equivalent in Europe.
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Invitations to other countries
The short notice and the invitations with unclear outlines of the initiative sent to over sixty countries – according to reconstructions by the Washington Post – pushed many governments to keep a low profile, limiting themselves to diplomatic representation. Italy instead chooses another path and the most accredited candidate to fly across the ocean is the Lega undersecretary of the Interior, Nicola Molteni. One step further that fuels the clash, leading +Europa to call for a government backtrack. Or, it is the provocation of Riccardo Magi, to explain to Rubio that today the real “subversive danger” for liberal democracies is “the illiberal regression of the Trump United States.”
“Italy should have distanced itself” from an “ideological witch hunt,” are also the voices of the Avs leaders, Angelo Bonelli and Nicola Fratoianni, who – announcing a parliamentary question – ask to shed light on the alleged requests received in June from the US administration on groups and associations of the Italian left.
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