The idea that the Patriots for Europe is pro-Putin comes only from external analysts, the Italian Prime Minister, the chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformers (ECR) party family, said on Tuesday, commenting on the birth of the new European Parliament party group.
Giorgia Meloni believes that the statement from "observers" that Patriots for Europe is a group close to Russian President Vladimir Putin is not true.
This was the first comment of the president of the ECR and also of the Italian right-wing government party regarding the new party family established in the European Parliament (EP) on Monday. Giorgia Meloni spoke to the journalists who accompanied her to the NATO summit in Washington starting on Tuesday, at which Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, one of the founders of Patriots for Europe, is also present. The Italian prime minister said that, according to analysts, the French party National Consolidation (RN) led by Marine Le Pen lost the elections, saying that this is a "too easy" reading.
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- highlighted Meloni, according to the MTI correspondent, and then added: unlike many other European member states, Italy is now the member state with a stable government, while previously the situation was just the opposite.
The Patriots for Europe overtook the ECR, which, in terms of its number of members, fell from the third to the fourth place among the EP party groups. From the ECR, the Spanish Vox joined Patriots for Europe, and Giorgia Meloni's government ally, the League led by Matteo Salvini, also became a member of the new European formation.
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