MILAN (ITALPRESS) – “I think Italy is in a position to have a dialogue” with the United States. “I think an open dispute there is with the Germans, but we are not Trump’s target. If Trump’s view is to reduce the trade deficit, I don’t think putting tariffs on Italian-American products goes in that direction. If this empathy, this direct channel and this consonance of interests that there is today between Rome and Washington were there between Paris or Berlin and Washington, would Macron and Scholz be thinking about the European interest or about safeguarding their country’s companies?” Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini said this in Milan while speaking at the ninth edition of Shipping, Forwarding & Logistics meet Industry at Assolombarda headquarters.
“Between Russia and Ukraine, no one wins on the ground. I am very clear about the distinction between aggressor and aggressed. Half a million dead and hundreds of billions have passed, invested not in health care and schools, but in weapons. And there is stalemate, indeed if anyone is advancing it is not Ukraine,” Salvini stressed.
“European army? I’m holding on to the Italian navy. Already they have done the experiment of stateless currency, who will command the European army? You have to think without certainties, and we have an extraordinary opportunity in the next few years to rebuild the country. If there was a single European army today, the EU would send troops to Ukraine,” the vice-premier said again.
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