Mattarella and Macron between EU and NATO common defense
What Mattarella said in Poland about the EU's common defense and the role of NATO. words and interpretations. Damato's Scratches
In spite of himself, he could jeopardize the arrival of an Italian at the top of NATO, Mattarella surprisingly arrived from Poland, although he escaped the radars of the Italian newspapers, intercepted only by Maurizio Belpietro's Verità and Davide Varì's Doubt . Which they headlined on his outing to Macron, contrary to a European agenda "dictated by others", that is, by the Americans – one might assume – in the face of the war in Ukraine unleashed and waged with growing ferocity by Russia. Of the speech of the President of the Republic in Polish territory, in a visit even in declared support to the resistance to the bitter end of the Ukrainians with the help of the Westerners, the newspapers – I repeat – preferred to value more, or only, the warning not to consider the European Union is a simple “sum of changing national interests”. As are those, for example, on the increasingly hot front of clandestine immigration, entrusted to rules rightly described as "prehistoric" by the head of state.
As has already happened with Macron's words, after his visit to China, against an alleged American "vassalage" of Europe, overseas may not even like those, albeit not so amplified, by Mattarella in Poland. And this while – according to the background and so on of Repubblica , as a headline on the front page of NATO shouts – an alleged "no from Draghi opens the way for the military leadership of Cavo Dragone". It is Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, in particular, 66 years old in February, Chief of Staff of the Italian Defense since 2021.
WHAT MATTARELLA SAID
Let's look at how to make concrete the perspective of the strategic autonomy of the European Union, capable of ensuring dissuasive deterrence, aware that this means further strengthening – and not weakening – our alliances, the strong point of our defense system.
I am thinking of the relationship between the European Union and the Atlantic Alliance, as well as that with the United States, which in the security crisis that our continent is going through, has placed itself alongside Ukraine, alongside its allies. Moreover, the same sums destined to strengthen the defense of individual EU countries (which together far exceed those of any competitors), if pooled would become an unparalleled driving force; also to the benefit of the Atlantic Alliance.
But it is necessary to overcome with courage and foresight the contradictions of aiming, on the one hand, for a solid framework of European defense without being able to overcome, on the other, the timidity of those who hesitate to advance on the path of integration.
MATTARELLA LIKE MACRON?
That slightly macronized Mattarella – relations between the two presidents are notoriously excellent, served several times to settle conflicts or overcome misunderstandings between the governments of Rome and Paris – ended up finding himself, with that European agenda dictated by others, like the new secretary of the Pd Elly Schlein in her first press conference commented on the Corriere della Sera , serving the daily coffee, by Massimo Gramellini under the title: "Elly parallele". Which in Domani , the newspaper of the "radicality" worn for some time by the publisher Carlo De Benedetti, has become "Schlein, radical but prudent".
So cautious, the secretary of the Democratic Party, on the issues – for example – of the war in Ukraine and rubbish in Rome, where the mayor is determined to send her to a waste-to-energy plant greatly opposed by the grillini, that Il Fatto Quotidiano dedicated this opening title to her in front page: “Schlein, zero breakthroughs. Count on his own”. And this in spite of the victory just sung by the two in the municipal elections of Udine.
“The truth is – noted Gramellini – that politics is not a profession for commentators but for mediators, because its task consists in deciding without crashing… The color of politics is grey, therefore it does not excite us… Every new leader deceives us and then it always disappoints us”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/mattarella-nato/ on Thu, 20 Apr 2023 06:30:54 +0000.