Meloni witnesses the media fistfight between Zelensky and Berlusconi
What happened during Meloni and Zelensky's press conference in Kiev according to the Italian newspapers. Damato's Scratches
If the problem weren't dramatically serious, since it was the war in Ukraine, it would be fun to see, hear and read the political and media representations in Italy of the great traffic, let's call it that, which took place in the last 48 hours between Kiev and Warsaw . Which was attended by the American President Joe Biden and the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to reaffirm and physically represent the support of their respective countries, and more generally of the Atlantic Alliance and the European Union, for the cause of independence and survival of the Ukraine attacked by the Russians.
ZELENSKY'S "SLAFT" TO BERLUSCONI
What of this traffic, and of the long-distance confrontation between Biden and Putin – “mastheads”, the manifesto titled, thinking perhaps also of the nuclear ones that both have at their disposal – has become central to Italian stories” the slap" – as headlined by La Stampa – that the Ukrainian president Zelensky, in the joint press conference with Meloni after their meeting, wanted to give to Silvio Berlusconi by responding to journalists on the critical position taken towards him in Italy by the former president of the Council. Who notoriously considers him "the lord" mostly or solely responsible for the ongoing war.
While Berlusconi from Italy chose the "silence" shouted in the headline of the first page of the family newspaper , breaking it only to oppose his adolescent experience as a "displaced person" in the Second World War to the situation reproached by Zelensky for not having suffered attacks to his houses and things from his friend Putin; while Berlusconi, I said, has chosen "silence" other unsuspecting opponents such as Il Fatto Quotidiano have taken up his defense. And accused Meloni of allowing her government ally to be offended. "Zelensky – headlined Marco Travaglio's newspaper – humiliates Meloni by insulting Berlusconi".
DID ZELENSKY REALLY HUMBLE MELONS?
Even my friend Piero Sansonetti, who usually takes headlines with Travaglio, to put it like the manifesto , translated and dismissed the joint press conference of the Ukrainian president and the Italian premier in his Riformista : “Zelensky insults Berlusconi. Meloni's visit to Kiev fails". Now she will have to contend with her ally, perhaps as represented by Stefano Rolli in the front page cartoon of Secolo XIX , where the prime minister punches back a Berlusconi eager to know how the mission to Kiev, which he publicly advised against, went.
I don't know if Meloni was really displaced and humiliated by the Ukrainian president represented in Repubblica as "the elephant in the room". But I know that in the joint press conference, as I read in Il Sole 24 Ore with the signature of the correspondent Barbara Fiammeri, you had no embarrassment in confirming your government's support for Ukraine "to the end", regardless of the opinions of the Knight. "This is how we talk", headlined and commented Il Foglio .
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/meloni-zelensky-kiev/ on Wed, 22 Feb 2023 06:23:20 +0000.