Premier Giorgia Meloni has said she
stands by all the decisions she has made since becoming Italy's
first woman head of government in 2022 in an interview published
on Friday in daily newspaper Corriere della Sera's '7'
supplement.
"Everything can be perfected, but I have no regrets or remorse
because we have never given less than everything over the last
two and a half years," said Meloni, the leader of the right-wing
Brothers of Italy (FdI) party.
"And I have never made a decision that I should be ashamed of.
"With every step there is always the risk of a stumble, but this
is not a good reason to stand still.
"The Italians have called on us to govern Italy at an extremely
complex time.
"We have always tried to move following one compass, the
national interest".
She said that, under her administration, Italy has regained the
confidence of international investors and the financial markets.
"What some had hoped would be the weak points of this government
have become its strengths," she continued.
"Of course this does not mean that everything is going well in
Italy and that all the problems have been resolved.
"But there has been a change of direction. Having said this, I
am still convinced that we must, and can, always do more and do
better".
She said one of her government's strengths was its "capacity to
dialogue with everyone.
"Over these two years we have strengthened our traditional
alliances, but we have also opened channels of dialogue with
partners with whom we previously spoken little to or with whom
relationships were less intense," she continued.
"And this is a great added value, which allows Italy to
diversify its geopolitical and geo-economic standing.
"Think about the new partnership we have established with India:
until a few years ago there was a ban on Italian companies
there, now our relationships have completely changed, and this
is offering us great opportunities in previously unexplored
fields, from economic interconnections to the development of
biofuels, for example".
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