
The Italian Prime Minister urges the President of the EU Council on the need for a united position to avoid favoring those who want the conflict to continue.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sent a letter to the President of the EU Council Antonio Costa asking for a united European approach on the Ukrainian issue, criticizing the current fragmentation which weakens the credibility of the Union.
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Prime Minister Meloni has raised on several occasions in the European Council the need for a common line on the war in Ukraine.
In light of the most recent developments, I am forced to return to a topic that I have raised several times in the European Council.
I am referring to the need for Europe to speak with one voice on the Ukrainian issue. A necessity that cannot be postponed anymore". Thus begins a letter sent by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the President of the EU Council Antonio Costa. According to Meloni, the succession of interventions in various formats and different compositions is making Europeans "little credible in the management of one of the most complicated dossiers with which our Nations are confronted. And I am convinced that we all realize how, by giving the image of a Europe that is in no particular order, we are serving nothing other than the interest of those who want this war to continue. And I think that - he points out - it is unacceptable, given that there are human lives and the future of our security at stake."

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