There are no first- and second-class members in the European Union, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni insisted in her first parliamentary speech on Tuesday, with which she asked for confidence in the lower house.
Meloni stated that the right-wing government he leads puts the protection of national interests first and wants to make his voice heard in the EU institutions.
"Anyone who asks questions about Europe is not an enemy or a heretic, but a pragmatist who is not afraid to say that something could work better," he said.
As for migration policy, he said: traffickers should not choose who can enter Italy.
He condemned the Italian racial laws of 1938, stressing that he was never close to anti-democratic regimes. He called himself an "underdog" in English, who "started from an underdog position, but defied all expectations."
Source: MTI
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