Europeans, Meloni: “We want a strong Europe, not an arrogant one like this one”

The Prime Minister: "Europe cannot dictate to us what we should eat, what car we should drive and how we should renovate our house"

ROME – “We are on the eve of a decisive vote, in which citizens will be asked to choose between two models of Europe. On the one hand, a hyper-centralist bureaucratic super-state and enemy of national specificities, built on the transfer of new competences and ever-increasing shares of sovereignty from governments and parliaments legitimized by the people to the European Commission; on the other, a confederation of sovereign nations, united on major issues but free to address issues of national relevance, guaranteeing the principle of subsidiarity enshrined in the treaties of the European Union. We believe in this second model and are working to build it.” The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, writes this in a message to Mauro Ronco, president of the ‘Rosario Livatino’ study centre, on the occasion of the meeting ‘Starting again from Europe, rethinking the Union’, underway in the Chapter Hall of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in the Senate.

Meloni explains: “That is, we do not want a Europe that claims to dictate to us what we should eat, what car to drive, how to renovate our house, what clothes to wear and perhaps even how to write and think. This it is an arrogant and invasive Europe, contrary to the freedom of its citizens. We want a strong and authoritative Europe, which does less but better starting from the common foreign and security policy, which is a protagonist in the world and in crisis scenarios, but which leaves everything else to the freedom and sovereignty of nations”.