Last day of meetings and debates. In the traditional session dedicated to the opposition, the leader of the Democratic Party launched an appeal: "We need to overcome unanimity, because it is not possible to govern even a condominium with unanimity, let alone a community that holds 27 different member states together". Conte: "We have already accumulated significant proposals on labor and environmental policies on the program." Renzi: "United centre-left sends the Meloni government home"
Last day of meetings and debates at the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio. After the discussions on the global economy and the European Agenda, today the focus is on Italy's prospects. In the traditional session dedicated to the opposition, the leader of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, launched an appeal: "Enough defeatism over Europe". "We need to overcome unanimity", he added, "because it is not possible to govern even a condominium with unanimity, let alone a community that holds together 27 different member states". While the leader of the M5s, Giuseppe Conte, underlined: "We have already worked together on the program, we have already accumulated significant proposals on labor and environmental policies and some important elements such as the law on conflict of interests".
Schlein: "No to the detriment of individual states, we need common defense"
On Italy, the leader of the Democratic Party explained: "We must get this country moving again starting from a growth strategy which for us has three fundamental issues: the first, accelerating decarbonisation to reduce the cost of energy. The second major measure is to relaunch investments. Third and last, improve the quality of work". Then a passage also on rearmament: "I also think that the path of the arms race of the individual 27 States, with their uncoordinated armies does not increase the efficiency of military spending and does not increase deterrence. Having the courage to make a big leap forward in integration also means developing a true common defense - he added -, towards a common army".
Conte: "No to EU military escalation"
Conte, however, clarified again what the M5s' position is for foreign policy: "We all agree that Europe does not benefit from the military escalation which is draining many resources". "Some sectors have been advantaged - he explained - others have not, and the military commitments have been written irresponsibly, Meloni knows that we cannot spend 5% of the budget on armaments". "Europe benefits nothing from continuing a military escalation which is only leading to a policy of rearmament which is draining resources," he then underlined. While on the proposals, he said he was "more determined than ever" to "create a national sovereign development fund".
Renzi: "United centre-left sends government home"
The leader of Italia Viva, Matteo Renzi, also expressed his opinion on future scenarios: "I think that Giorgia Meloni has every interest in attacking the opposition, but if Meloni is in government it is because we were divided last time". "Because Meloni never had 40%, not even 30%, he got 25.9% the other time, that is, the same percentage with which Bersani lost - he added -. They won because we were divided". "If the centre-left agrees on specific points with a German-style contract", added Renzi, "not only does it send Urso and Salvini home, but it can give Europe the idea of an Italy that is a protagonist and that is not an Italy that simply simply floats".
Teha survey: Cernobbio audience promotes Meloni government
Meanwhile, the Cernobbio audience responds by promoting the Meloni government at 68% and rejecting the opposition's performance at 83%, in the poll promoted by Teha Ambrosetti before the start of the panel in which the opposition leaders Bonelli, Conte, Renzi and Schlein confronted each other. "It's a way to put ourselves at ease", commented Angelo Bonelli immediately. Invited to evaluate the work of the Meloni government on a scale from 1 (very negatively) to 9 (very positively), with a sort of instant pool, over two thirds of those present in the room (68.3% overall) expressed a positive opinion (ratings from 6 to 9). The most frequent rating is 7 with 33.3% of the preferences, followed by the rating 8 chosen by 20.0% of respondents and the maximum score 9 (very positively) equal to 6.7%. 8.3% of the sample gave a pass (score 6). The rating of 5 stands at 10.0%, while the negative ratings (ratings from 1 to 4) stop at 21.7% overall.
