Between Georgia Meloni and Elon Musk, a special relationship

While Europe is alarmed by Elon Musk’s intrusions into the life of its democracies, is Italy preparing to entrust its security to him, at the risk of undermining the EU’s strategic autonomy? Rome is preparing to sign an agreement with Starlink, the SpaceX subsidiary founded by Elon Musk, which holds a virtual monopoly in the constellation of low-orbit satellites used for communications. Italy would then be the first European country to enter into such an agreement with this company.

Launched in the summer of 2022 by the Draghi government, which was annoyed at the role left to Rome in the development of the competing European project Iris2, the talks received a boost with the arrival of Giorgia Meloni to power. Notably thanks to the personal ties she established with the man who financed Trump’s campaign, which allowed the head of the Italian government to get closer to the president-elect, to the point of having gone to dinner at his home in Florida …