by Vincenzo Petrone (*)
ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The Heads of Government are trying to be protagonists in international politics especially in relation to the image building that they carry out in internal politics. And they’re good. Then come the crisis and the net decisions to be taken and international politics also dictates events and internal policy profiles. The embarrassment of our President of the Council with respect to Trump’s invitation to Italy to join the Board of Peace in Gaza is a case of species. President Meloni apparently has not yet decided to go to Davos where he hoped to meet Trump and try to mediate on Greenland. As well as Trump’s invitation to enter the Board of Peace for Gaza. But accepting the invitation would be to cancel Italian credibility as a mediator between Europeans and Americans in the NATO crisis. Go to Trump the same and refuse the invitation for this Board? Impossible. In short, a labyrinth, from which Giorgia Meloni can probably come out only disappointing Trump, especially after the very firm speeches of yesterday at the Forum, Von der Leyen, Macron and the magisterial Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney. And also Mattarella yesterday in the quattr’occhi interview at the Quirinale, may not have advised her to take a different position.
After tomorrow in Rome, the German Chancellor Merz will express itself in the same terms. With Macron and Merz who refuse to participate in the Board, who can imagine that Italy accepts and gets photographed next to Putin and Lukashenko in a consesso that maybe meets in Mar-a-Lago? Not that the rest of the company of the other 51 Countries invited to this club trumpiano is from Palco Reale, although for membership it is necessary to be at least wealthy, considering that the access fee is 1 billion dollars. About the prerogatives of the members then, does not escape the statutory clause for which President Trump is assigned the mandate of Chairman of the Board of Life. And yesterday he also stated that his creature “may replace the United Nations”. Instead of the Security Council he would have an Executive Council composed, always alive, by his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, by his business partner Steve Witkoff, two real estate owners. And, only European, by Tony Blair who has a consulting firm.
