Premier Giorgia Meloni on Monday had
a meeting in Brussels with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor
Orban, with whom she has good ties, ahead of an informal EU
summit Monday night on the top European jobs after this month’s
European elections.

   
Meloni is the president of the European Conservatives and
Reformists Party (ECR), which her right-wing Brothers of Italy
(FdI) party belongs to.

   
FdI maintained its position as Italy’s strongest party in the EU
elections, winning close to 29% of the vote here.

   
Orban’s Fidesz is not in a European group after pulling out of
the centre-right EPP two years ago, but is expected to join the
ECR.

   
Orban told reporters after the hour-log meeting with Mleoni at
Brussels’ Hotel Amigo: “The meeting went well, it always goes
well with Italy”.

   
On the agreement on EU top jobs and in particular on von der
Leyen, Orban said: ‘There is a dinner this evening, we will know
after the dinner, the situation is fluid right now’.

   
Meanwhile, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose Civic
Platform party is in the EPP, suggested Monday that there was no
need to try to convince Meloni to get the ECR to join the
EPP-led coalition that is likely to support the next EU
executive.

   
“It’s not my job to convince Meloni, we already have a majority
with the EPP, the Liberals and the Socialists and other small
groups,” Tusk said at the EPP’s pre-summit meeting.

   
“My feeling is that that is already more than enough”.

   

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