Emmanuel Macron meets Giorgia Meloni in Rome

A first meeting at the top. Emmanuel Macron will, in fact, meet with the new Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, this Sunday evening in Rome, announced the Elysée. The French head of state is the first foreign leader to meet the new president of the Italian council, who took office on Sunday. This meeting must take place in the center of the Italian capital and not in an official palace, indicated a French source to AFP.

“Now that she is Prime Minister…”

Asked about the characterization of “post-fascist” about Giorgia Meloni during the political program of CNEWS, Europe 1 and Les Echos, Olivier Véran, spokesperson for the government, considered that she herself had ” says a lot of things and [leur] opposite “. His Fratelli d’Italia party was a “post-fascist movement, it was claimed by Mrs. Meloni when she was a candidate. Now that she is Prime Minister, she is part of a coalition. If ever his policy were to differ from a fascist policy, personally, I would necessarily be very satisfied,” he explained.

Giorgia Meloni, officially taking office on Sunday, and her party are the heirs of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist party created after the Second World War from which she took over, at the foundation of Fratelli d’Italia at the end of 2012, the tricolor flame . It still recognizes today that the dictator Benito Mussolini (1922-1945) had “accomplished a lot”, without exonerating him from his “errors”: the anti-Jewish laws and the start of the war. She also affirms that in her party “there is no place for those nostalgic for fascism, nor for racism and anti-Semitism”.