Mirz is trying to suppress Miloni Macron on Ukraine

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German Chancellor Friedrich Mirz has sought to cool a bitter diplomatic row between Rome and Paris to exclude Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni from a group of European leaders criticizing with the White House on Ukraine.

Tensions erupted on Friday, when French President Emmanuel Macron Meloni was accused of publishing “false information” about not participating in a small group of European leaders with Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinsky and a common function with Donald Trump.

Meloni traveled to Albania for the summit of the European political community, which was attended by 40 European leaders, including Zelinski. However, she did not join Mirz, Macron, Mr. Kerr Starmer from the United Kingdom and Poland Donald Tusk to attend an intermittent meeting, discussing the results of Russian-Ukraine peace talks that occurred in Istanbul on that day. European leaders, who then began the invitation with Trump and Zelinski, issued a later statement Putin’s demands It is “unacceptable”.

The Italian Prime Minister, who was a strong supporter of KYIV and has a strong personal relationship with Trump, told Italian journalists that it had not been included because of its refusal to send forces to Ukraine as part of a “proposed alliance for the prepared” to provide security after any peace deal.

“Italy has long stated that it is not ready to send forces to Ukraine,” she told reporters in Tirana. “It will not make sense for us to participate in coordinates that have goals that we do not want to participate.”

But Macron said that the deployment of the forces was not discussed either in Tirana or in Kiev at the end of last week, where he traveled with Stars, Mires and Tosk – and without Meloni.

The French president said: “The discussion revolves around the ceasefire – let’s avoid publishing wrong information. There is already enough of that coming from Russia.”

Mirz met Meloni on the eve of the opening liturgy on Sunday for the fourteenth Pope Liu and sought to calm tensions, declaring that the two leaders agreed that Italy “must play a role” in all European peace initiatives in Ukraine.

“I will hold talks in the European Union in the coming days to include Italy in all our efforts to resolve this conflict,” Mirz told a press conference in Rome. “We should not allow ourselves to divide,” he said, adding that there were no “European Union members of the first or second degree, and that all countries are striving” to end this war as quickly as possible. “

At their joint press conference, Meloni urged the leaders to “abandon selfishness” and focus on “the unity of the West.” It has repeatedly called for a “fair peace” that does not reach the point of surrendering Kiev and called on the talks in Istanbul.

Meloni’s absence from the European Quartet, which pressure the Ukraine issue with Trump – and its evading publicly to Macron – led to a stir in Italy, where critics accused her of marginalizing her country from important decisions.

She was accused of lying about the real reasons for her exclusion, as some of her allies indicate that she allowed her to personalize Macron in the issuance of her ruling.

“Meloni is the guardian of the Italian national interest,” Carlo Quint, the middle legislator, told a local TV channel. “Not to go there motivated by personal hatred towards one leader is something you cannot accept.”

The mutual hatred of the French and Italian leaders has collapsed again and again since Meloni reached power in late 2022, including when Macron chose not to invite her Private dinner With Zelenskyy in early 2023.

Regardless of long -term hostility with Macron, Miloni had a tense relationship with Mirz’s predecessor, Olaf Schools, who, along with the Green Alliance partners, has invented publicly about her immigration policy.

However, Mirz, which made Christian Democrats in the center (CDU) have made the strict immigration policy a central panel to show her, sought to transfer a warm relationship with Meloni on Saturday night, in reference to the name “Georgia” and used informal official to Address shape.

“Together, we want a strong, safe and competitive Europe,” he said. “I am very grateful, Georgia, that we were able to establish close contact with each other in the first few days.”

Participated in additional reports from Juliana Rickezi in Rome