Ukraine, Meloni writes to Costa: «Unacceptable EU in no particular order, only one voice is needed»

A Europe that continues to "proceed in no particular order" on Ukraine is "unacceptable": "We do nothing other than serve the interests of those who want this war to continue." Giorgia Meloni has lost patience. After months spent asking for a single negotiator for Kiev capable of sitting at the negotiating table with one voice and a clear mandate to represent the EU, the Italian prime minister took pen and paper and wrote to the president of the European Council, Antonio Costa.

The request is clear: to stop with "initiatives that chase each other and overlap", because "it will not help us, neither with our partners, nor with those who we have to convince to stop a senseless aggression" (Vladimir Putin, who he does not name). And address the issue at the informal European Council in Dublin scheduled for 13 November to decide once and for all at the summit of heads of state and government in December.

It is the Prime Minister's first move in the aftermath of Donald Trump's defeat in the midterm elections and a series of "extemporaneous" initiatives in the last month alone that Meloni has lined up. «In Miami, an “informal” meeting between the national security advisors of some European states, Ukraine, and representatives of NATO and the EU was only confirmed later by US sources», he observes. «Then we reunited in Oslo. A few days later, in Helsinki, during the session of the Nordic Council, President Stubb and Prime Minister Støre suspended the proceedings for a telephone call "in a national capacity" with Russian President Putin".

It didn't end here. After the Helsinki episode «a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing, which brings together 37 states, was convened for 19 November in Berlin. But, a week before, that is, on 12 November, on the sidelines of the meeting of the European Political Community, we were summoned to a meeting of the so-called "Berlin format", which has a composition still different from all the others I have mentioned": this is the E5, which brings together the leaders of Germany, Italy, France, Poland and the United Kingdom. As if that were not enough, he adds, «I learn that technical level meetings are taking place in Brussels in recent days, and that an unspecified European presence is expected at the talks scheduled in Abu Dhabi between Ukrainians and Russians with American mediation. And, in the meantime, we will have seen each other at the informal European Council in Dublin."

Precisely in the Irish summit next week, the prime minister urges the inclusion of a decisive discussion, which is capable of leading the 27 European heads of state and government to take a definitive decision at the European Council in December, also after a liaison with the United Kingdom, Norway and the other interested European partners. Otherwise, "I fear that we risk condemning Europe to irrelevance in the negotiation process." Because the chaos of formats "is making us less credible in managing one of the most complicated dossiers with which our nations are confronted". And a Europe in no particular order is not acceptable, "given that human lives and the future of our security are at stake".