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Giorgia Meloni furious following this release of Laurence Boone in the Italian press.
ITALY – A first pass of arms between Italy and France while Giorgia Meloni is not (yet) Prime Minister. In an interview published this Friday, October 7 in the great Italian daily The Republicthe Secretary of State for Europe Laurence Boone expresses France’s vigilance with regard to the policies carried out in the coming months by the right-wing and far-right coalition who has won the legislative elections of September 25.
“We will respect the democratic choice of the Italians”says the French leader. ” Our values […] are different “however continues Laurence Boone, who adds: “We will be very attentive to respecting the values and rules of the rule of law. The European Union has already demonstrated vigilance with regard to other countries such as Hungary and Poland. »
Emmanuel Macron’s Secretary of State notably mentions the question of human rights. “We must raise a voice in EU bodies for the preservation of the rights of women, sexual minorities and all minorities in general. When we see what happened in the United States, we understand that we must remain extremely vigilant. » A thinly veiled allusion to criticism of Giorgia Meloni’s party, Brothers of Italy, accused in particular of restricting access to abortion in the Marche region he leads.
An outing which was very freshly welcomed by Rome, Giorgia Meloni denouncing a “ unacceptable threat of interference”. “I want to hope that, as often happens, the left-wing press has misrepresented the actual statements made by foreign government officials, and I hope that the French government will immediately deny these statements. »
I want to hope that the leftist press has misrepresented the actual statements made by foreign government exponents… https://t.co/HCD0jlYwoN
– Giorgia Meloni ???????? ن (@GiorgiaMeloni)
With these declarations, the French minister responds to the blunder made by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne », adds Giorgia Meloni. On September 26, the day following Giorgia Meloni’s victory, Élisabeth Borne had warned that France would be “ attentive » au « respect » human rights and women’s right to abortion.
With this exit, the likely future Prime Minister is once once more stirring up anti-French sentiment, one of the favorite activities of the Italian far right. At the Ministry of the Interior in 2018 and 2019, Matteo Salvini, an ally of Giorgia Meloni in the last elections, had regularly criticized the action of the French police in the management of migrants.
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