Rome, 12 Mar. (LaPresse) – ‘I hope that Trump, with his brusque manners, will bring Zelensky and Putin to the table, who will then agree on the borders on the territories to be given or to be had, and I am sorry that Europe is not a protagonist in this confrontation while an international player like Turkey, which has carved out a far-sighted and decisive position for itself in recent years, is. So said Matteo Salvini, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport at the LetExpo trade fair in Verona. ‘The fact that the world does not pass through Brussels, because Brussels is busy busting the balls of the seafarer, putting constraints and imposing electric cars and peace will be played out between Istanbul and Riyadh, makes me say that this EU has failed dramatically,' he continues. ’Either we start again from economic sustainability not from abstruse environmental mumbo-jumbo, or we will be increasingly marginal and we have an opportunity as Italy to be a protagonist at this time. Until a month ago Brussels was preventing Italy from investing too much money to fix hospitals and schools, to increase salaries and pensions. Today instead the money is there, even 800 billion, but to buy weapons?’ he adds. ‘For three years they have been telling us that Russia is on its knees, that it is in crisis and that it is losing the war, while now suddenly it even becomes an existential emergency, as von der Leyen says? Should we fear the advance of the Red Army? Either they didn't tell us well in previous years, or they are telling us now,' Salvini concluded.
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