Milan, Jan 3 (LaPresse) – Are you and Elon Musk friends? ‘We are definitely two people who have a very good relationship. Elon Musk is a man of genius and it is always very interesting to deal with him’. So said Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in an interview with ‘7’, the weekly magazine of the ‘Corriere della Sera’. ‘Musk,' she added, ’is a great responsibility of our time, an extraordinary innovator who always has his eye on the future. I find it natural to dialogue with him. Of course, there are things on which our point of view is more similar, others on which we are more distant, but that does not prevent the comparison. And, allow me, it makes me smile quite a bit who, until yesterday, extolled Musk as a genius and today instead paints him as a monster, just because he chose the ‘wrong’ camp of the barricade. I have always not thought like that'. Don't you think that some of the opportunities granted to Musk's companies could become a security risk? ‘First of all, I have worked and work for more investment in Italy and I evaluate the usefulness of each investment with the lens of national interest, not with that of the political ideas or friendship of those who invest. This was done by others. The compass of my action is the defence of the national interest. And this includes, of course, the need to balance the demands of participation and innovation with the demands of security. But it is a line of reasoning that applies to anyone who wants to invest in Italy, regardless of the name the company bears,' the premier emphasised.