
This will be followed by talks with US envoys Witkoff and Kushner returning from Moscow
In Dublin, Ukrainian President Zelensky meets Sherpas from Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy together with representatives of the Commission and the EU Council, before the conversation with US envoys Witkoff and Kushner returning from the Moscow summit with Putin.
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Ukrainian President Zelensky participates in a meeting in Dublin with Sherpas from Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy and with representatives of the Commission and the EU Council, followed by a conversation with US envoys Witkoff and Kushner returning from the Moscow summit with Putin.
Meeting in Dublin between President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Sherpas of the E4 - Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy - and representatives of the Commission and the EU Council. The meeting will be followed by a meeting between the Ukrainian president and the two US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, returning from the Moscow summit with Vladimir Putin.
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Diplomatic contacts between Ukraine, the EU and the USA will continue on the ongoing conflict.
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The centre-left foreign policy table meets to find a summary on Ukraine, an issue still open in the common programme. Among the points of contact, a discontinuity with the foreign policy of the Meloni government and support for international law. Bonelli proposes a public sovereign fund for pensions of up to 85 billion a year from 2047. An Ipsos poll commissioned by Spadafora indicates that the united centrist forces would exceed the threshold.

The Municipality of Milan has announced the winners of the 2026 Golden Ambrogini, awarded on 7 December in a ceremony dedicated to the Crans-Montana tragedy. Among the awards, medals in memory for Chiara Costanzo, Achille Barosi, Luca Attanasio, Francesco Imprezzabile, Carlo Monguzzi, Elena Pero and Enrico Rizzi, as well as the Great Gold Medal for the Family Community, Cgu Niguarda, health workers and school staff in support of the victims of Crans-Montana. Gabriele Albertini, Biagio Antonacci, Franz Wilhelm Baruffaldi Preis and Donatella Versace will also receive the Ambrogino.

The authors of the school manual 'Trame del tempo 3' respond to the minister Giuseppe Valditara, who had asked the publisher Laterza to withdraw the text for alleged liberticidal sentences against the Meloni government. The writers claim the contents, define the request as a dangerous precedent and recall the school cuts in the budget law. The publisher refused to remove it.

An amendment to the school decree, approved by the Senate, reduces trade union representation in the education sector by tying it only to the number of members and no longer to the RSU vote. CGIL, PD, M5S and AVS are calling for the withdrawal of the law, defining it as an attack on confederal unions and democracy.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni participated in the Berlin Format meeting on Ukraine on the sidelines of the European Political Community Summit in Dublin, then had a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to take stock of the negotiations and confirm Italy's support.

Carlo Messina of Intesa Sanpaolo criticizes the deferral of Superbonus credits, calling it a 'South American formula' and denounces a proposal 'not consistent with the Constitution'. Giorgia Meloni responds from Dublin claiming the 'justice' of the manoeuvre. Palazzo Chigi tries to mend the rift, defined as 'inappropriate', while previous personal and political tensions emerge.