What Meloni and von der Leyen are doing in Egypt
Announcements and projects by Meloni and von der Leyen in Egypt. Damato's Scratches
Elly Schlein and Giuseppe Conte, in order of gender gallantry due regardless of their sexual tendencies and practices, play in Italy to lose or regain, widen or narrow, lengthen or shorten their "playing field" between regions, municipalities, villages and so on, sometimes even losing sight of it. As the National Daily newspaper records with unhidden satisfaction, including Giorno , Resto del Carlino and Nazione , in descending geographical order of printing and circulation.
Giorgia Meloni, looking less at internal allies and at the disruptive actions that a certain hostile press attributes against her, increasingly occupies the international field, in which she has preferred to grow and distinguish herself from the first day of her arrival at Palazzo Chigi. And on which he has bet so far with a certain success mixed with luck, what is the turn of the G7 presidency, precisely in this year of the European elections.
Now, alone – as La Stampa prefers to represent her cartoonishly on the front page with its satirical "Giornalone" – or in the usual permanent pair now with the outgoing (and who knows if returning) president of the European Commission in Brussels, the German Ursula von der Leyen , takes away from Egypt the skeptical or mocking expression of improbable or false things. And she becomes… half a queen, as some prefer to imagine her, still without giving up that ancient negative expression.
The famous " Piano Mattei " devised by Meloni to put aside, so to speak, the problem of illegal immigration, moving it away from the valley made up of the Italian coasts which mark a large part of the southern borders of Europe, also translates into Egypt, as is already happened in Tunisia, in concrete agreements. Seven and a half million euros are those attributed to the Meloni and von der Leyen bags destined for Al Sisi's Egypt. Who is the general disliked in Italy by those who still dispute the cover provided to his subordinates who killed the Italian Giulio Regeni, mistaking him for a dangerous spy, but earned some credit by freeing – that is, pardoning – the University of Bologna student Patrick Zaky.
The latter thanked Meloni in his own way, certainly no stranger to his liberation, by participating in the electoral campaign against her in Abruzzo, where the left dreamed of defeating the centre-right. It's politics, beauty, as Humphrey Bogart said about the press in the legendary film Casablanca. But Meloni looks to the point, as usual. Or how she learned from political activism conducted with a certain professionalism since she was just a girl. And the bottom line for her is a real Egypt, not a false or imaginary one, available and effective like Tunisia in containing, diverting and so on the migrants from Africa and the surrounding area, tempted by the Italian coasts of Europe even at the very high price, in money and human lives, imposed by the smugglers who manage the traffic.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/cosa-fanno-meloni-e-von-der-leyen-in-egitto/ on Sun, 17 Mar 2024 08:52:19 +0000.