Premier Giorgia Meloni told
question time in the Senate that she was a patriot and Italy and
the EU must boost defence spending. Saying that Rome would hike
defence spending to 2% of GDP this year in line with NATO
demands, she said that the Atlantic Alliance should look more to
its southern flank, Meloni said that Italy now had a clear
foreign policy and doomsayers who predicted it would be isolated
under a centre-right government had been proven wrong. Meloni
stressed the importance of keeping the EU and the US united, and
also said she was ready to brief parliament on India-Pakistan
tensions. On Ukraine, she reiterated that Rome was always at
Kyiv's side and Moscow should show that it wants peace. She said
that ensuring security was not a favour to the US but "a favour
to us."
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