Ukraine, Tajani: "If Moscow does not negotiate, the war will not end soon". And on the duties...

" I have always said that the war would not end at least until the end of the year. Putin has built a war machine. Now he must accept that the path now is one of negotiation and peace ." This was explained by Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani in an interview with Corriere della Sera.

"The prisoner exchange is still a positive sign, but let's not fool ourselves: the war will not end any time soon - he stresses -. We need to explore all avenues, work on solutions for a ceasefire and then a just and lasting peace, even if while we do it the bombs are still falling, because we need to be realistic". Trump is back on the attack with tariffs. Salvini speaks of a Europe that is inefficient to say the least. " On tariffs, as anyone who talks about it should know, we do not negotiate like Italy but we negotiate like Europe - the deputy prime minister underlines -. And we have full confidence in Sefcovic and the Commission, with whom we have continuous relations. In Brussels with President Mattarella we met with von der Leyen, Metsola and Costa. And Prime Minister Meloni has facilitated the relationship with Trump: let's let the negotiations continue".

"I am not convinced by the anti-European rhetoric: we are stronger if we are united, not divided. Europe serves to solve problems, it does not create them", he emphasizes. Italy is increasingly dismayed by the carnage of civilians in Gaza. "We want to be effective, we do not want to just put on a ferocious face for propaganda reasons. Does anyone really think that by withdrawing the ambassador we would convince Netanyahu to stop? We need ambassadors to talk to foreign governments. We have said it from the beginning and increasingly loudly: enough with uncontrolled military reactions, enough with civilian victims - he emphasizes -. We do it also because we are close to Israel, and we do not want legitimate criticism of a government to lead to shameful resurgences of anti-Semitism. Being against Netanyahu cannot become a way to legitimize attacks on the entire Jewish people".