Meloni, what happened to the once pro-Draghi prime minister? The call of the wild and Salvini's fear changed the course

What's happening to Giorgia Meloni? Before the summer even the international press was convinced that Giorgia Meloni was no longer the populist underdog who had won the elections by shooting at the Palace and theEurope but that she was – as a French weekly wrote – “a populist on the move”. On the way to where? Towards a future more as a conservative leader than a reactionary right: in short, more Thatcher than Le Pen. But after the summer Giorgia changed gear even if the daily tragedy of Lampedusa forced her to return to earth. The own goal of the crude August decree on extra profits from companies banks it was the watershed and the signal that Meloni 2.0 was no longer what it was in the first six months Palazzo Chigi but he had dusted off the sovereignist, interventionist, statist and, ultimately, populist posture both in the economy and above all in relations with Europe and in the face of the emergency migrants. How do you explain such a sudden turn? First of all with the call of the wild, that is, of the ghosts that have populated its entire political history and emerged forcefully in the last electoral campaign: the distrust towards Europe and above all towards France e Germany, the desire to find counter-current alliances such as the one with the Hungarian nationalist leader Victor Orban, ignorance and idiosyncrasy towards the market economy. But then there are the electoral calculations and the unbridled competition on the right Matteo Salvini, the ally in Italy of the reactionary and pro-Putinian French Marine Le Pen. The change of course and the metamorphosis of Meloni emerge every day, above all in the failed immigration policy, of which the bizarre idea of ​​the naval mission in the Mediterranean which the President of the European Commission, in Lampedusa, symbolizes Ursula Von de Leyen, didn't even pay attention. The lack of financial resources for the imminent budget maneuver does the rest and definitively buries the electoral dreams, fueling the sense of impotence and the syndrome of being surrounded by the prime minister. This is why Meloni is now looking for a scapegoat for her failures and she finds it in Europe: No to Month, no al Stability pact and growth, delays and confusion on the Pnrr, attacks that are both disorganized and gratuitous on the Italian Eurocommissioner Paolo Gentiloni and to the High Representative for EU foreign policy Josep Borrell. But the prime minister must be careful not to push the envelope too much because in a highly indebted country like Italy there is always a stony guest at the government table: the markets and who they sent home in 2011. Silvio Berlusconi. The ghost of financial crisis luckily it's not around the corner. But it is better not to joke and even less to shout about conspiracies. Giorgia, leave the electoral bubble and remember President Sergio's wise advice Mattarella and former prime minister Mario Draghi, who have always recommended you to establish good relations with France and Spain if you don't want to end up isolated in Europe, as you are risking more and more every day.