Giorgia Meloni: "NATO spending necessary and sustainable, we will not divert funds from other priorities"

"We will not take away even one euro from the priorities of the government and Italian citizens, we do not believe in using the safeguard clause" of the Stability Pact in 2026 for defense. "The alliance is compact, it wants to strengthen. There is full support for Ukraine from everyone," she added. Spain? "It signed the same document that we signed." A European army? "We are in NATO, and NATO is made up of national armies. Duplication makes no sense." Meloni also reported that she told Trump and other leaders that "the same determination" used on the war between Israel and Iran "should also be used for two other ceasefires, for Ukraine and for Gaza."