“The government is working to alleviate the suffering that the war is inflicting on Italian families and businesses, particularly in relation to energy costs. Fortunately, we have now managed to achieve an important achievement by capping the price of gas. The price of gas will go down, so I think there will be some easing in inflation as well, inflation should come down.” Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said in a speech on Rainev’s 24th day.
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“In the coming weeks and months we will focus heavily on the economy,” Tajani assured at the time, “precisely to enable Italians to have a better life. I look to the future with optimism, as do the President of the European Central Bank and the President of Confindustria: I believe that there will be a recovery from the months of April and May, which should relieve the economic situation,” he added .
“Italy has always advocated a diplomatic solution and the achievement of the peace goal of bringing Zelenskyy and Putin to the table,” said the foreign minister. “Of course it will be China and the United States above all, and I believe also through the Vatican and the UN, the protagonists of an action to persuade the two parties to sit down at the table to achieve peace, which, however, must be a law of peace,” he stressed. “He cannot see Ukraine being subjected to Russia, but it must be a peace in which international law is respected, in which the independence of Ukraine is guaranteed, which today is a candidate country for membership of the European Union.”
QATARGATE – “A few bad apples risk harming an institution that is a garrison of democracy, the only European institution directly elected by citizens,” commented data from a distrust poll, Qatargate the Italians compared to the European institutions. “The media turmoil has had a negative impact on Italian public opinion,” the minister lamented. “We have to tell the Italians that the vast majority of European parliamentarians are decent people.”
REGENI CASE – The leader of the Farnesina then returned to talk about the Regeni case. “We must shed light and ensure a just punishment for those who committed this horrible crime: relations with Egypt are not a tool to erase what happened. What happened is a very serious, unacceptable fact – he told Tajani – we have condemned him and We have always reminded the Egyptian authorities: we want the guilty of this horrific execution of a young Italian student to be punished. But we must maintain ties with an important country to ensure the stability of the entire region.”