Rome (EFE) half of this year, has taken him this week to Cyprus, Malta and Italy.
The Spanish Air Force plane in which Sánchez traveled from Valletta after meeting the night before with the Prime Minister of Malta, Robert Abela, arrived at Rome’s Ciampino airport at mid-morning.
From there he went to the Chigi Palace, seat of the Italian Government, for his meeting with Meloni and after which, by decision of the host country, there will be no joint press conference and a statement without questions.
The ideological differences between Sánchez and Meloni, leader of the far-right Hermanos de Italia formation, are enormous, but the Spanish government stresses that relations between countries transcend the executives that may be in charge of them at all times and that Italians they have democratically decided who they want to govern them.
Despite these differences, Sánchez hopes that Meloni can contribute to consensus on issues that will be the subject of debate and negotiation during the Spanish presidency of the EU, including the Pact on Migration and Asylum that the Twenty-seven have promised to approve before that next year the elections to the European Parliament will be held.
Sánchez arrives in Rome with the explicit support of Cyprus and Malta (with whose leaders he met the day before) for his commitment to a migratory pact that has as a fundamental element the external dimension of this problem, aid to the countries of origin and transit of the migration.
He believes that there must also be a balance between responsibility and solidarity, and that bridges must be built to avoid blocks of countries with opposing positions.
The President of the Government wishes to know Meloni’s position on this matter and on others that will be very present during the Spanish presidency of the EU, such as the strengthening of open strategic autonomy and competitiveness, and the reform of the electricity market.
