A fresh French attack on Premier
Giorgia Meloni's migrant policy by the head of French President
Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance party is unjustified, European
Affairs Minister Raffaele Fitto said Wednesday.
Stéphane Séjourné, the secretary general of Renaissance, was
quoted by daily newspaper Le Figaro on Wednesday as calling
Meloni's migration policies "inhuman" and "incompetent".
He was quoted as saying "Meloni does lots of rabble-rousing on
illegal immigration: her policies are unjust, inhuman and
ineffective".
The statement comes on the back of a recent diplomatic spat
between Italy and France that arose after Interior Minister
Gérald Darmanin said Meloni was incapable of solving the migrant
problems she had campaigned on.
Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani subsequently
cancelled a trip to Paris to see his counterpart Catherine
Colonna in protest at the attack.
Responding to Séjourné's attack, Fitto said: "the irritability
over the growing worries of internal politics has today produced
another victim...devoid of valid political arguments and
frightened by the judgement of his citizens, Séjourné thought
it was a good idea to play the card of an unprovoked and
unjustified attack on Premier Meloni that not only contradicts
all rules of institutional etiquette, not helping the correct
dialogue between Governments, but also, I am certain, won't
serve to solve for him the many political problems that he has".
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