Madonna celebrated her 63rd birthday there, Justin Timberlake got married there, David and Victoria Beckham stayed there several times. But the seaside establishment Borgo Egnazia, in Puglia, is hosting a star of another kind this week: far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who is hosting the other G7 leaders there from June 13 and 15.
While the French Emmanuel Macron and the German Olaf Scholz face a “internal crisis” linked to the defeat of their respective parties in the European elections, “the Italian leader can relax in a private hotel on the Adriatic coast and feel ‘a feeling of deep relaxation’, to use the words used by the palace on its website”, estimated Der Spiegel. Because after the Europeans, it has almost nothing left to prove to its international partners.
His party, Fratelli d’Italia, obtained nearly 29% of the votes in the June 9 vote: a victory. Compared to France or Germany, “Italy appears as a beacon in the chaos”, particularly welcomed the Prime Minister. Remarks “which are probably difficult to swallow for his counterparts in Berlin and Paris”, comments the Hamburg weekly. After all, the Franco-German couple always considered that they were “the engine of the European Union”.
The swan and the ducks
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